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.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dAq4TGQsWwwC&dq=Emily+Jacobson&pg=PA80 ''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History'' – Bob Wechsler]</ref> 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.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{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 }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=535270 "Emily Jacobson" – Columbia University Lions]</ref> She is the younger sister of fellow U.S. Olympic team fencer Sada Jacobson, born in February 1983.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> 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.<ref>[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"]</ref><ref name=autogenerated1 /> She attended Columbia University, where she was a psychology major, and graduated in 2008.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>[http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=3733702 "Columbia Athletics Celebrates 25 Years of Women's Sports" – Columbia University Lions]</ref> 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.<ref>[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"]</ref><ref>[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]</ref><ref>[https://alumnius.net/georgia_state_univer-8165-62 "Alumni US" {{!}} Georgia State University – J. Mack Robinson College of Business]</ref>

==Fencing career==

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

Jacobson finished 7th in saber at the 2001 World Championships.<ref name="Jewish Virtual Library">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Jacobson.html|title=Emily Jacobson|work=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=4 July 2015}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Jewish Virtual Library" /> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

At the 2004 Junior World Championships, she won gold medals in both the team and individual events.<ref name="Jewish Virtual Library" /> That year, she was ranked No. 3 among female junior and senior U.S. saber fencers.<ref name="Jewish Virtual Library" />

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

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

===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.<ref name="sports-reference">{{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}}</ref>

===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.<ref name="Nellya's">{{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}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated3>[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]</ref>

Jacobson was the 2005 NCAA Champion.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> She won the women’s sabre title at the 2005 North American Cup, and secured the silver medal in sabre at the IFA Championships.<ref name="Nellya's" /> In 2004–05 she was 27–3 overall and ranked 3rd in the nation, and 8th in the world, in sabre that year.<ref name="Nellya's" />

In 2006, she finished second in sabre at the NCAA Championships, and placed 8th at the North American Cup.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> In 2007 and 2008 she was third in the NCAA Championships.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> She was 31–2 during the 2005–06 season.<ref name="Nellya's" /> For her career, she had a record of 131-16, with a .891 winning percentage.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

==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.<ref name="Jewish Virtual Library" /> In 2014, she was inducted into Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> and in 2016 she was inducted into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame.<ref name=autogenerated3 />

==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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==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]

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