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Fencing
Began fencing in August of 2004, at the Oregon Fencing Alliance, which has produced several elite Notre Dame fencers in recent years ... one of team's taller women's fencers (5-foot-9) who has developed very modern and effective style while training alongside classmate Sarah Borrmann at OFA, where they are coached by former Notre Dame assistant Ed Korfanty ... very athletic bouter whose newer style includes different positioning of the blade, minimizing movements and focus on strategic use of distance on the strip (all running counter to static bouting of the past) ... typically uses quick escapes rather than parries, in order to avoid touches ... combined with Becca Ward, Dagmara Wozniak and Caroline Vloka for bronze-medal team finish at Junior World Championships in Belek, Turkey (April '07). AS A FRESHMAN: Earned Second Team All-America honors with a fifth-place finish at NCAAs ... had 18 wins at NCAAs and a +42 touch margin ... finished fourth at NCAA Midwest Regional and made it to the Midwest Fencing Conference semifinals ... at the Regional had a 5-2 record in pool play to earn the sixth seed in direct elimination ... knocked out in the quarterfinals by teammate Sarah Borrmann, 15-9 ... defeated Wayne State's Ann Bartowicz (15-7) and Falencia Miller of Ohio State (15-13) to finish fifth ... posted a 67-12 (.848) regular season record ... her 67 wins were the second most on the women's sabre squad ... posted a 13-5 record at the NYU Duals ... went 14-3 at the Notre Dame Duals ... helped the Irish to a perfect 11-0 record on the second day of the Northwestern Duals with a 10-1 record ... went 16-2 on the first day of the Northwestern Duals for a combined 26-3 mark at the event ... finished in third at the annual Penn State Open in her first collegiate action, including a 15-12 quarterfinal win with Harvard's Alexa Weingarden, a semifinal loss to Grench (11-15) and a win over OSU's Felicia Miller for the bronze medal. PREP & PERSONAL: Attended Aloha High School while training at Oregon Fencing Alliance ... placed 12th at Senior World Cup in Vancouver (June '06), with round-of-32 win over France's Anne-Lise Touya (2005 world champ) ... finished 16th later that month at Sr. Grand Prix in Las Vegas and matched that finish at Jr. World Cups in Sosnowiec, Poland (Oct. '06), and Odessa, Ukraine (Sept. '06) ... placed 14th at Sr. World Cup in Orleans, France (Feb. '07), also fencing at four other 2007 Sr. World Cups: London (54th; Feb.), Gand, Belgium (40th; May), Havana, Cuba (34th; June), and Klagenfurt, Austria (68th; May) ... her 2006-07 results also included the 16th-place finishes in Sosnowiec and Odessa, plus Jr. World Cups in Dormagen, Germany (66th; Nov. '06) and Budapest (30th; Jan. '07), and Grand Prix events in Budapest (88th; Feb. '07), Foggia, Italy (69th; March '07), and Las Vegas (26th; June '07) ... her strong showing at Jr. Olympics in Hartford, Conn. (Feb. `06), included placing second in junior/U-20 bouts and third in cadet/U-17 ... placed 10th at 2006 USFA North American Cup in Sacramento, Calif. and 11th at Houston N.A.C. (Jan. '06) ... lettered in basketball as a freshman center at Aloha HS, where she was a member of National Honor Society and student government ... her sister Maria Hassett is a member of the basketball team at Gonzaga ... born April 19, 1989, in Portland, Ore. ... daughter of Kevin and Ann Hassett ... full name is Eileen Marie Hassett ... enrolled in the College of Arts and Letters as a Design major. |
    
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