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{{Short description|American fencer (born 1983)}} | |||
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'''Sada Molly Jacobson'''<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/fashion/weddings/17JACOBSON.html | work=The New York Times | title=Sada Jacobson, Brendan Bâby | date=May 17, 2009 | accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> (born February 14, 1983) is an American Olympic ]. She is the ] (one of three Olympic medals), the ], and the ] champion in women's sabre. In 2016, she was inducted into the ]. | |||
'''Sada Jacobson''' (born ], ]), from ], ], is an ] ]. | |||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
Jacobson was born in ], ], and is Jewish.<ref name=autogenerated2></ref><ref></ref><ref name=autogenerated4></ref> Her parents are David Jacobson, a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber who was an All-American fencer at Yale University and now an ], and Tina Jacobson, who also fenced competitively.<ref name=autogenerated6></ref><ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/fashion/weddings/17JACOBSON.html | work=The New York Times | title=Sada Jacobson, Brendan Bâby | date=May 17, 2009 | accessdate=May 23, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author= Judy Fortin|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/15/hm.olympic.fencer.inspires/index.html |title=Olympic fencer inspires new generation |publisher=CNN|date=December 15, 2008 |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> She is the sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer and Junior World Champion ], and fencer Jackie Jacobson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fencing.teamusa.org/athlete/athlete/519 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080717020741/http://fencing.teamusa.org/athlete/athlete/519 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 17, 2008 |title=Sada Jacobson | Athletes | US Fencing |publisher=Fencing.teamusa.org |date= |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> | |||
Jacobson swam competitively for two years in high school.<ref name="usoc.org"> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230204121/http://www.usoc.org/11817_18764.htm |date=December 30, 2006 }}</ref> She postponed her college career to train full-time for the ]. | |||
Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson (who many at the Nellya Fencing Club call DJ), a member of the ] U.S. National fencing team in saber and now an ], and Tina Jacobson, who has also fenced competitively. | |||
Her hometown is ], and she has lived in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref></ref><ref></ref> She graduated from ] in ], in 2000. She graduated with a history degree from ], ]. She studied history at Yale University.<ref name=YDN>{{cite news |title=Fencer Jacobson '06 takes silver in Beijing |url=http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24847 |publisher=Yale Daily News |date= August 10, 2008|accessdate=August 22, 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080822033347/http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24847 |archivedate = August 22, 2008}}</ref> | |||
She is the sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer ], born December ]. She also has a younger sister, Jackie, born February 26, ], who is also a world-class fencer. | |||
==Fencing career== | |||
Jacobson swam competitively for 2 years in high school. | |||
She trained at Nellya Fencers from a young age.<ref name=autogenerated5></ref> She has been coached by Arkady Burdan of Nellya Fencers, and Henry Hartunian at Yale.<ref name=autogenerated5 /><ref name=autogenerated6 /> | |||
She graduated with a history degree from Yale University. She postponed her college career to train full-time for the Athens 2004 Olympics. She will compete again in the Olympics in Beijing in 2008, and is currently ranked # 1 in the world for women's sabre fencing. | |||
==Fencing career== | |||
Sada began fencing competitively at the relatively-late age of 15. Within two years, she was a member of the U.S. National team. | |||
===College & Under-19 career=== | ===College & Under-19 career=== | ||
Jacobson was a 2-time NCAA sabre champion for ] (2001 and 2002).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncaafencing.shtml |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-01-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020223000910/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncaafencing.shtml |archivedate=2002-02-23 }}]] Championship and earned 1st-team All-America honors as a freshman at Yale, after a 30–0 regular season. Jacobson was 29–1 as a sophomore, and repeated as NCAA champion. In addition, she was the 2001 Under-19 National Champion. In 2003, she won the World Junior Fencing Championships in women's saber.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> | |||
===Senior World Championships=== | |||
Jacobson is a 2-time NCAA saber champion for Yale (2001 and 2002). | |||
Jacobson is a 4-time Senior World Championships team member (2000–03). She was a member of the gold-medal 2000 Women's Sabre World Championship team at the age of 17.<ref name=autogenerated3></ref> She won another bronze medal at the ] sabre competition.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> | |||
She won an ] Championship and earned 1st-team All-America honors as a freshman at ], after a 30-0 regular season. | |||
In her first individual World Championships in 2001, Jacobson placed 12th. She placed 5th in 2002 and 2003.<ref></ref> | |||
Jacobson was 29-1 as a sophomore, and repeated as NCAA champion. | |||
===Pan American Games=== | |||
In addition, she was the 2001 Under-19 National Champion. | |||
Jacobson won the gold medal in sabre at the 2003 Pan American Games.<ref>{{cite web |author=Ralph Hickok |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamfencing.shtml |title=Pan American Games Fencing Medalists |publisher=HickokSports.com |date=February 18, 2009 |accessdate=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120906104235/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/panamfencing.shtml |archivedate=September 6, 2012 }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated3 /> | |||
===National Championships=== | ===National Championships=== | ||
Jacobson won the US women's sabre championship in 2004 (beating her sister in the final) and 2006.<ref>{{cite web|author=Ralph Hickok |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/usfencingchamps.shtml#wsabre |title=U. S. Fencing Champions |publisher=HickokSports.com |date=February 18, 2009 |accessdate=March 27, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20061210063458/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/usfencingchamps.shtml |archivedate=December 10, 2006 }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated2 /> | |||
She was ranked # 1 in the US from June 2003 through October 2005.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> | |||
===Senior World Championships=== | |||
Jacobson is a 4-time Senior World Championships team member (2000-03). | |||
She was a member of the gold-medal ] Women's Sabre World Championship team at the age of 17. She won another bronze medal at the ] sabre competition. | |||
In her first individual World Championships in ], Jacobson placed 12th. She placed 5th in ] and ]. | |||
===Number 1 World Ranking=== | ===Number 1 World Ranking=== | ||
In 2004, at 19 years of age she became the first U.S. woman to be ranked No. 1 in the world in ], and only the second U.S. athlete to claim the title, after male fencer ].<ref name="usoc.org"/><ref> {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050509000137/http://www.usoc.org/26_1150.htm |date=May 9, 2005 }}</ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
===Olympic medals=== | |||
In ] she became the first U.S. woman to be ranked No. 1 in the world in ], and only the second U.S. athlete to claim the title, after male fencer ]. | |||
Jacobson won the ] in women's sabre at the ], the first year that event was hosted at the Olympics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nellyafencers.com/olympianfencers.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053159/http://www.nellyafencers.com/olympianfencers.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-04|title=Nellya's Olympic Fencers|date=2016-03-04|access-date=2018-08-14}}</ref> Her match took place before the gold-silver match, and therefore Jacobson became the first women's sabre Olympic medalist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ivy50.com/womens/story.aspx?sid=2/15/2007 |title=Ivy Women in Sports |publisher=Ivy50.com |date= |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/fencing/results?day=17 |title=Athens 2004 Olympics, Fencing – Fencing Results |publisher=Yahoo! Sports |date= |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> She won the silver medal in individual sabre <ref name=":0" /> and bronze in the team sabre event at the ].<ref>{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.annarbor.com/sports/former-olympic-fencer-sada-jacobson-transitions-to-life-as-a-michigan-law-student/ |title=Former Olympic fencer Sada Jacobson transitions to life as a Michigan law student |publisher=AnnArbor.com |date=May 12, 2010 |accessdate=January 3, 2011}}</ref> | |||
==Post-fencing career== | |||
===Pan American Games=== | |||
Jacobson indicated that she intended to retire from competitive fencing after the 2008 Olympic competitions concluded, and focus on law school, and starting life with her fiancé.<ref>{{cite web|author=|url=https://www.today.com/news/will-medalists-make-fencing-new-baseball-wbna26135457 |title=Fencing: The new baseball? – TODAY in Beijing |publisher=Today.com |date=August 13, 2008 |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref> She graduated with a ] degree from the ] in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |first=Dave |last=Sheinin |title=In Fencing, U.S. Women Pull Off Historic Sweep |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080900921.html?hpid=topnews |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 10, 2008 |accessdate=August 22, 2008}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|last=Slater |first=Dan |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/08/11/fencing-champ-headed-for-michigan-law-school/ |title=Upon Returning from Beijing, Fencing Champ Will Be Law School Bound |publisher=WSJ |date=August 11, 2008 |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated4 /> She and Brendan Brunelle Bâby, who graduated from ] where he competed in ] and was a member of three NCAA championship teams, were married in May 2009 in Atlanta at the Nellya Fencers Club, where she had trained for both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.<ref name="nytimes1"/> As of 2015, she practiced commercial litigation for ].<ref name=autogenerated4 /> | |||
Jacobson won the gold medal in sabre at the 2003 Pan American Games. | |||
===Olympic Medal=== | |||
In ], she took a leave of absence from ] and qualified for the U.S. ] team. That year was the first in which women's individual sabre was contested at an ]. | |||
Jacobson breezed past ]n Miclin Faez, as she beat the 17th seed 15-4, in the ]. She faced a much tougher challenge in 8th seed Leonore Perrus, whom she faced in the quarterfinals, and beat 15-11 to advance to the semifinals. She lost her shot at gold or silver when she lost to ] of ] (seeded 5th) 15-12. | |||
On August 17th she won the ] by defeating Catalina Gheorhitoaia of ] 15-7. She won the bronze medal in a match contested before the gold-silver duel, and thus became the first women's sabre Olympic medalist. | |||
==Beijing 2008 Olympics== | |||
The US womens' sabre team, including Jacobson, ], and ], are favoured to win the team sabre event on August 14, 2008. | |||
Jacobson and Ward have also been named the top seeds for the individual sabre competition in women's fencing. The individual matches begin 8/9/08. All three Americans will get a first-round bye in the tournament. | |||
Top non-Americans include World No.3 ] of China, a silver medalist at both the Athens Olympics and the 2008 Women's Sabre World Cup, Elena Netchaeva of Russia, reigning World Champion aiming to improve on her fifth place finish at Athens 2004, and Anne-Lise Touya of France, 2005 World Champion. | |||
==Miscellaneous== | |||
*Jacobson and her sister have been compared to the ] (Venus and Serena), who have dominated women's professional tennis. | |||
*The Jacobson sisters haven't faced each other since a junior World Cup that Emily won in ], in January ] | |||
*2003 '''Titan Games''' sabre gold medalist. | |||
*She has been coached by Arkady Burdan of Nellya Fencers, and Henry Hartunian at Yale. Burdan is a former ] fencer and coach who left the ] in ] as a ] refugee, and eventually settled in ]. | |||
*Says '']'' is her favorite movie, because lead actor ] “actually took fencing lessons for several weeks” before filming one scene. According to Jacobson, “It shows.” | |||
==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
*Jacobson, who is ], received the ] Award for the Outstanding Jewish Scholastic Athlete of the Year in both 2002 and 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/detail.asp?sp=169 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227162624/http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/detail.asp?sp=169 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=February 27, 2010 |title=Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=Jewishsports.org |date=March 24, 2002 |accessdate=March 27, 2010}}</ref><ref></ref> | |||
*She was named Academic All-] for 2002.<ref></ref> | |||
*In 2003 Jacobson was named the U.S. Fencer of the Year.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> | |||
*Also in 2003, she was inducted in the U.S. ], which recognizes outstanding Jewish athletes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fau.edu/library/br153.htm |title=Jewish Heroes in America |publisher=Fau.edu |date= |accessdate=March 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528145158/http://www.fau.edu/library/br153.htm |archive-date=2010-05-28 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |||
*In 2012, she was inducted into the ].<ref name=autogenerated3 /> | |||
*In 2016, she was inducted into the ].<ref></ref> | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:17, 6 December 2024
American fencer (born 1983)
Sada Jacobson | |
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Born | (1983-02-14) February 14, 1983 (age 41) Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
Sport | |
Weapon | sabre |
Hand | left-handed |
Club | Nellya Fencers |
Head coach | Arkady Burdan |
Retired | 2008 |
FIE ranking | rankings (archive) |
Medal record |
Sada Molly Jacobson (born February 14, 1983) is an American Olympic fencer. She is the 2008 Olympic Individual Sabre silver medalist in women's sabre (one of three Olympic medals), the 2004 Olympic Individual Sabre bronze medalist in women's sabre, and the 2003 Pan American Games champion in women's sabre. In 2016, she was inducted into the United States Fencing Hall of Fame.
Background
Jacobson was born in Rochester, Minnesota, and is Jewish. Her parents are David Jacobson, a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber who was an All-American fencer at Yale University and now an endocrinologist, and Tina Jacobson, who also fenced competitively. She is the sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer and Junior World Champion Emily Jacobson, and fencer Jackie Jacobson.
Jacobson swam competitively for two years in high school. She postponed her college career to train full-time for the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Her hometown is Dunwoody, Georgia, and she has lived in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2000. She graduated with a history degree from Morse College, Yale University. She studied history at Yale University.
Fencing career
She trained at Nellya Fencers from a young age. She has been coached by Arkady Burdan of Nellya Fencers, and Henry Hartunian at Yale.
College & Under-19 career
Jacobson was a 2-time NCAA sabre champion for Yale University (2001 and 2002). She won an NCAA Championship and earned 1st-team All-America honors as a freshman at Yale, after a 30–0 regular season. Jacobson was 29–1 as a sophomore, and repeated as NCAA champion. In addition, she was the 2001 Under-19 National Champion. In 2003, she won the World Junior Fencing Championships in women's saber.
Senior World Championships
Jacobson is a 4-time Senior World Championships team member (2000–03). She was a member of the gold-medal 2000 Women's Sabre World Championship team at the age of 17. She won another bronze medal at the 2006 World Fencing Championships sabre competition.
In her first individual World Championships in 2001, Jacobson placed 12th. She placed 5th in 2002 and 2003.
Pan American Games
Jacobson won the gold medal in sabre at the 2003 Pan American Games.
National Championships
Jacobson won the US women's sabre championship in 2004 (beating her sister in the final) and 2006.
She was ranked # 1 in the US from June 2003 through October 2005.
Number 1 World Ranking
In 2004, at 19 years of age she became the first U.S. woman to be ranked No. 1 in the world in sabre, and only the second U.S. athlete to claim the title, after male fencer Keeth Smart.
Olympic medals
Jacobson won the bronze medal in women's sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the first year that event was hosted at the Olympics. Her match took place before the gold-silver match, and therefore Jacobson became the first women's sabre Olympic medalist. She won the silver medal in individual sabre and bronze in the team sabre event at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Post-fencing career
Jacobson indicated that she intended to retire from competitive fencing after the 2008 Olympic competitions concluded, and focus on law school, and starting life with her fiancé. She graduated with a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2011. She and Brendan Brunelle Bâby, who graduated from Pennsylvania State University where he competed in épée and was a member of three NCAA championship teams, were married in May 2009 in Atlanta at the Nellya Fencers Club, where she had trained for both the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. As of 2015, she practiced commercial litigation for McKenna Long & Aldridge.
Awards
- Jacobson, who is Jewish, received the Marty Glickman Award for the Outstanding Jewish Scholastic Athlete of the Year in both 2002 and 2005.
- She was named Academic All-Ivy League for 2002.
- In 2003 Jacobson was named the U.S. Fencer of the Year.
- Also in 2003, she was inducted in the U.S. National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, which recognizes outstanding Jewish athletes.
- In 2012, she was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- In 2016, she was inducted into the United States Fencing Hall of Fame.
See also
- List of select Jewish fencers
- List of Jewish Olympic medalists
- List of NCAA fencing champions
- List of USFA Division I National Champions
- List of USFA Hall of Fame members
References
- ^ "Sada Jacobson". usfencing.org. USA Fencing. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- "Sada Jacobson, Brendan Bâby". The New York Times. May 17, 2009. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ Day by Day in Jewish Sports History - Bob Wechsler
- The Shengold Jewish Encyclopedia
- ^ "Sada Jacobson" | Jewish Women's Archive
- ^ Ivy Women in Sports
- ^ "Sada Jacobson, Brendan Bâby". The New York Times. May 17, 2009. Retrieved May 23, 2010.
- Judy Fortin (December 15, 2008). "Olympic fencer inspires new generation". CNN. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- "Sada Jacobson | Athletes | US Fencing". Fencing.teamusa.org. Archived from the original on July 17, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- ^ Archived December 30, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- Sada Jacobson, Brendan Bâby - The New York Times
- The New Yorker
- "Fencer Jacobson '06 takes silver in Beijing". Yale Daily News. August 10, 2008. Archived from the original on August 22, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2008.
- ^ Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories - Carlo Rotella
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 23, 2002. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
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- Ralph Hickok (February 18, 2009). "Pan American Games Fencing Medalists". HickokSports.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- Ralph Hickok (February 18, 2009). "U. S. Fencing Champions". HickokSports.com. Archived from the original on December 10, 2006. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- Archived May 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- www.fencingmedia.org
- Olympic Women and the Media: International Perspectives
- ^ "Nellya's Olympic Fencers". March 4, 2016. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- "Ivy Women in Sports". Ivy50.com. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- "Athens 2004 Olympics, Fencing – Fencing Results". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- "Former Olympic fencer Sada Jacobson transitions to life as a Michigan law student". AnnArbor.com. May 12, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- "Fencing: The new baseball? – TODAY in Beijing". Today.com. August 13, 2008. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- Sheinin, Dave (August 10, 2008). "In Fencing, U.S. Women Pull Off Historic Sweep". Washington Post. Retrieved August 22, 2008.
- Slater, Dan (August 11, 2008). "Upon Returning from Beijing, Fencing Champ Will Be Law School Bound". WSJ. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- "Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Jewishsports.org. March 24, 2002. Archived from the original on February 27, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- Journal of the Senate
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- "Jewish Heroes in America". Fau.edu. Archived from the original on May 28, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
- "USA Fencing Members Elect Hall of Fame Class of 2016"
External links
- Sada Jacobson at the International Fencing Federation
- Sada Jacobson at Team USA (archive May 18, 2022)
- Sada Jacobson at Olympics.com
- Sada Jacobson at Olympedia (archive)
- CNN: Olympic fencer inspires new generation
- National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame bio
- Jewish Virtual Library bio
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Jewish sabre fencers
- Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Olympic silver medalists for the United States in fencing
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in fencing
- Yale Bulldogs fencers
- University of Michigan Law School alumni
- American female sabre fencers
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in fencing
- The Westminster Schools alumni
- Fencers at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Left-handed fencers
- Sportspeople from Rochester, Minnesota