2025-26 Fencing Roster
Audrey Baker
- Weapon:
- Saber
- Class:
- Junior
- Custom2:
- 30 / Knights of Thirty
- Hometown:
- Essex Fells, NJ
- High School:
- West Essex
2023-24 | Freshman: ranked second amongst saber group with 28 wins ... went undefeated against six opponents and 3-0 against Incarnate Word, Lawrence, Fairleigh Dickinson and Detroit Mercy ... competed at NCAA West Regional, placing 12th.
Before Air Force: US Fencing All-State Team, second team women’s saber from 2019-22 … NJIFA All-State, first team women’s saber in 2019-20 … NJ High School Fencing District 2 Champion in 2020 … National Honor Society member … USA Fencing First-Team All-Academic from 2019-22 … also competed for Bergen Fencing club and was coached by Aleksey Kuznetsov and Oleg Statsiv … competed at the Junior World Cup events in: Budapest, Hungary in 2023, Dormagen, Germany in 2022, Segovia, Spain in 2022 and Sosnowiec, Poland in 2021.
PERSONAL: Member of cadet squadron 12 … daughter of Timothy Baker and Liyan Gau … has an older brother … considering biology major … future career plan is the medical field … Why I decided to come to the Academy: “I was inspired by my grandfather and have always wanted to serve my country.” … hobbies are watching TV shows and drawing … began fencing at age 11 … credits her older brother as having the biggest influence on her sports career and he is also her favorite role model … pre-competition superstition is to eat pasta for dinner the night before a tournament for good luck … dream vacation spot is Japan … guilty pleasure is cookies n’ cream … something most people don’t know about her is that she has watched over 1,000 episodes of One Piece and is fully caught up with the series … most notable thing about her home town is that there are no sidewalks or traffic lights, but there are so many trees … enjoys listening to Jpop … favorite TV show is The Last of Us … favorite movie is Train to Busan … favorite class subject is forensics science … favorite athlete is Elizabeth Stone … considers herself super duper funny and cool.
