Sport: Fencing (Épée)

Birthday: July 15th, 1993

Birthplace: Washington, D.C.

College: Princeton University, BA in Neuroscience ‘17

2016 Olympian. 2015 Pan Am Games gold medalist, individual and team. 2019 Pan Am Games individual champion and team gold medalist. Four-time NCAA All-American (2012, 2013, 2014, 2017). Anchor of winning US women’s epée team at 2018 senior World Championships. Six-time member of Senior World Championship teams (2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Tokyo will be Kat’s second Olympic Games. After returning from Tokyo, she will attend medical school at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Kat’s senior thesis in neuroscience at Princeton was titled “How Risk Preference and Perception of Action Riskiness in Fencing Affect Learning and Strategy of Fencing Play.”

Kat finished 18^th overall in the women’s épée individual competition of the Tokyo Games. She also finished 5^th overall in the women’s épée team competition, along with USA teammates Kelley Hurley (NYAC), Courtney Hurley (NYAC), and Anna van Brummen.