Hadley Husisian

Hadley Husisian ( ; born July 26, 2003) is an American épée fencer. Currently, she competes for Princeton University, where she has earned All-American honors and won the 2023 Ivy League Women's Épée Championship. Husisian is also a long-standing member of Team USA and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where she finished twelfth. Prior to the Olympics, Husisian earned back-to-back individual gold medals at the 2022 Dubai and 2023 Plovdiv Junior World Championships, while also earning bronze and silver (2023) medals in the Junior Women's Épée team events as a member of Team USA.

Career

Hadley Husisian began fencing at the age of ten, inspired by a character on the TV show "iCarly" who participated in the sport. This portrayal sparked her interest in fencing, leading her to pursue it more seriously, getting involved with fencing clubs in the DMV area. At this time, Husisian trained about 30 hours a week. Coached by Guillermo Madrigal, she had success in the cadet division (under-17), winning three national gold medals and a silver. These achievements helped her secure a spot on the U.S. Junior National Team. She became the Junior Women's Épée World Champion in 2022, marking her as the first American to win this title since 2008. She successfully defended her title the following year in the Plovdiv Junior World Championships, becoming the only U.S. épée fencer—male or female—to win two Junior World Championships. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Husisian placed twelfth in the Women's Épée Individual Event and seventh in the Women's Épée Team Event.

From a young age, Husisian has been an avid reader. She gave a TedxYouth Talk, "Are Readers An Endangered Species: Hadley Husisian," as a 5th grader, when she was the "number 1 book-checker-outer" for 2 consecutive years at the Flint Hill School. Furthermore, she maintains a Goodreads account and regularly leaves short reviews for books with a range as wide as the hockey romance Heated Rivalry (of which she "will not be ashamed by how quickly [she] read this novel" ) to academic piece On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections. She logged upwards of 7 books pertaining to Harper Lee in the 2025–26 school year for her Junior Paper requirement. She is an English major.

Medal record Grand Prix

World Cup

Pan American Championship