Emily Jacobson

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Emily Phillipa Jacobson (born December 2, 1985, in Decatur, Georgia) is an American Olympic sabre fencer. She won a bronze medal in the 2003 Pan American Games, and was 2004 Junior World Champion in women's saber.

Background

Jacobson was born in Decatur, Georgia, and is Jewish.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=Emily+Jacobson&pg=PA80 Day by Day in Jewish Sports History – Bob Wechsler] She is a daughter of David Jacobson, an endocrinologist who was a member of the 1974 U.S. National fencing team in saber and also a former Yale fencer, and Tina Jacobson, who has also fenced competitively.{{Cite web |url=http://museumofamericanfencing.com/wp/jacobson-sada-and-emily/ |title=Jacobson, Emily and Sada – Museum Of American Fencing |access-date=May 20, 2018 |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706081006/http://museumofamericanfencing.com/wp/jacobson-sada-and-emily/ |url-status=dead }}[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=535270 "Emily Jacobson" – Columbia University Lions] She is the younger sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer Sada Jacobson, born in February 1983. She also has a younger sister, Jackie, who was born February 26, 1989, who is also a world-class fencer.

Jacobson graduated from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2004.[https://web.archive.org/web/20140301105037/http://www.teamusa.org/News/2013/May/10/Inside-The-Life-Gabby-Douglas-Interviewed-by-Tim-Morehouse "Inside The Life: Gabby Douglas Interviewed By Tim Morehouse"] She attended Columbia University, where she was a psychology major, and graduated in 2008.[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=3733702 "Columbia Athletics Celebrates 25 Years of Women's Sports" – Columbia University Lions] She graduated from Georgia State University College of Law and the Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business with a JD/MBA, in 2014.[http://law.gsu.edu/2014/12/17/en-garde-olympian-incorporates-fencing-skills-study-law/emilyjacobson1/ "Emily Jacobson (J.D./M.B.A. '14) – College of Law"][http://law.gsu.edu/2014/12/17/en-garde-olympian-incorporates-fencing-skills-study-law/ "En Garde: Olympian Incorporates Fencing Skills in Study of Law" – College of Law][https://alumnius.net/georgia_state_univer-8165-62 "Alumni US" {{!}} Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business]

Fencing career

=World Championships, World Cups, Pan Am Games, and US & World Rankings=

Jacobson finished 7th in saber at the 2001 World Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Jacobson.html|title=Emily Jacobson|work=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=4 July 2015}} She won a team gold medal in sabre at the 2001 World Junior Team Championships. She won a bronze medal at the 2003 Pan American Games. She won a bronze medal at a World Cup in Havana, Cuba, in June 2003, and a silver medal at a World Cup in Budapest, Hungary, in March 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.fencingmedia.org/viewathlete.asp?weapon=WS |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607192543/http://www.fencingmedia.org/viewathlete.asp?weapon=WS#emily_jacobson |archivedate=June 7, 2007 |title=Women's Saber: Emily Jacobson |publisher=fencingmedia.org |date= |url-status=usurped |accessdate=July 4, 2015}}

At the 2004 Junior World Championships, she won gold medals in both the team and individual events. That year, she was ranked No. 3 among female junior and senior U.S. saber fencers.

In 2005 she took 5th in the Junior World Championships.[https://web.archive.org/web/20151229042552/http://www.teamusa.org/usa-fencing/athletes/Emily-Jacobson Emily Jacobson]

In 2010, she won the National Championship in Women’s Sabre at the US Fencing National Championships.[https://www.fencing.net/2736/usfa-2010-nationals-day2/ "Emily Jacobson, Seth Kelsey win National Championships"]

=Olympics=

She competed for the U.S. at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She reached the Round of 16, losing to Leonore Perrus of France, 15-13.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/emily-jacobson-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418084212/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/emily-jacobson-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-18 |title=Emily Jacobson Olympic Results |accessdate=2012-06-10 |work=sports-reference.com}}

=College career=

After high school, she ranked second nationally, and 11th in the world. At Columbia University, fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team Jacobson she was named first team All-American all four years that she competed.{{cite web|url=http://www.nellyafencers.com/olympianfencers.html#Emily|title=Emily Jacobson|work=Nellya's Olympic Fencers|accessdate=4 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053159/http://www.nellyafencers.com/olympianfencers.html#Emily|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=210154498 Emily Jacobson '08CC Selected to USA Fencing Hall of Fame – Columbia University Lions]

Jacobson was the 2005 NCAA Champion.{{cite web|author=Ralph Hickok |url=http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncaafencing.shtml |title=NCAA Fencing Champions |publisher=HickokSports.com |date=April 1, 2010 |accessdate=April 14, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20020223000910/http://www.hickoksports.com/history/ncaafencing.shtml |archivedate=February 23, 2002 }} She won the women’s sabre title at the 2005 North American Cup, and secured the silver medal in sabre at the IFA Championships. In 2004–05 she was 27–3 overall and ranked 3rd in the nation, and 8th in the world, in sabre that year.

In 2006, she finished second in sabre at the NCAA Championships, and placed 8th at the North American Cup. In 2007 and 2008 she was third in the NCAA Championships. She was 31–2 during the 2005–06 season. For her career, she had a record of 131-16, with a .891 winning percentage.

Awards

Jacobson, who is Jewish, received the 2002 Jules D. Mazor Award as the Jewish High School Athlete of the year from the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. In 2014, she was inducted into Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame. and in 2016 she was inducted into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame.

Calendar

Her image was included in a 5766 calendar, "Jewish + Female = Athlete: Portraits of Strength from around the World", featuring Jewish women in sport, produced by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute.{{cite web |last=Asinof |first=Richard |url=http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2005/09/29/news/news07.txt |title=History of Jewish female athletes celebrated in brand-new calendar |publisher=The Jewish Ledger |date=September 29, 2005 |accessdate=July 4, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303181014/http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2005/09/29/news/news07.txt |archivedate=March 3, 2016 }}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930201632/http://www.usoc.org/26_13784.htm US Olympic Team bio]
{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515094344/http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=45280&SPID=4049&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=535270&Q_SEASON=2006 |date=May 15, 2007 |title=Columbia University bio }}
{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070210180644/http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/detail.asp?id=158 National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame bio]}}
[http://www.jewsinsports.org/Olympics.asp?ID=696 Jews in Sports bio]
{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060916071037/http://www.brandeis.edu/hbi/pubs/cal_qa_ejacobson.html |date=September 16, 2006 |title=2005 interview }}
[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=1097315 "On the Prowl with Emily Jacobson '08CC," 7/17/2007]

Category:1985 births

Category:Living people

Category:Columbia Lions fencers

Category:American female sabre fencers

Category:Jewish sabre fencers

Category:Jewish American sportspeople

Category:Olympic fencers for the United States

Category:Fencers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Category:Sportspeople from Decatur, Georgia

Category:People from Dunwoody, Georgia

Category:Sportspeople from DeKalb County, Georgia

Category:People from Forest Park, Georgia