Sophia Kovacs

Sophia Kovacs Fencing In the NCAA Championships

Photo by: Ricky Bassman

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

Position:
Sabre
Height:
5-9
Class:
Redshirt Senior
Hometown:
Washington Township, N.J.
High School:
Westwood

Three-Time All-America (2023, 2024, 2025)

2024-2025
Opened the season with two wins against No. 6 Duke.... Picked up fourteen wins combined against No. 13 Penn State, No. 12 Yale, No. 3 Columbia, Cleveland State, and No. 10 Ohio State at the Elite Invitational ... Swept Sacred Heart, NYU, NJIT, Haverford, No. 4 Princeton, John Hopkins, No. 11 Temple... Notched two wins against No. 10 Ohio State at the Philadelphia Invitational... Earned nine wins combined against No. 3 Columbia, Haverford No. 7 Penn, No. 4 Princeton, Wanger at the Penn State Invitational... Finished fourth in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional... Earned her third All-American honor with her 10th place finish at the 2025 NCAA Championships... Named All-ACC Academic team.

2023-2024: Went 11-3 against Sacred Heart, NJIT, Haverford and Lafayette in the Philadelphia Invitational… Second place finish at the 2024 NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional… Runner-up at the ACC Championships… Notched her second All-American honor with her 10th place finish at the 2024 NCAA Championships.

2022-2023:
Led the women's team in individual wins in each of the first three meets… In dual meets, Kovacs had a 13-2 record at the Philadelphia Invitational and was 3-0 against No. 7 Penn and 2-1 against No. 3 Notre Dame at the Elite Invitational… Kovacs was also perfect at home this season, going 6-0 at the Tar Heel Invitational… Kovacs represented Team USA at the Women's Sabre Senior Grand Prix in Orleans, France... Kovacs finished fourth at the ACC Champions... Kovacs claimed fifth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals… Earned her first career All-American honors at the 2023 NCAA Championships.

PERSONAL: Both her father and brother fenced in college… Daughter of Lara and Robert Kovacs... Graduate of Westwood High School… Competed for Durkan Fencing Academy for seven years… Spent one year at Bergen Community College.