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Brown University Recreation

2021-22 Men's Fencing Roster

Benjamin Shih

  • Position Foil
  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Santa Clara, CA
  • Highschool Archbishop Mitty HS

Biography

2020-21: Season canceled due to COVID-19.

 

Before Brown:

  • Chinese Taipei Cadet, Junior, Senior National Teams
  • Member of the USA Cadet Travel Team
  • Ranked 15th in FIE Junior World Rankings in 2021
  • Ranked 1st in Junior Asia Rankings in 2021
  • 2018 Asian Cadet Championships Bronze Medalist
  • 2018 Asian Cadet Championships Team Bronze Medalist
  • 5th at the 2019 Bangkok Junior Men's Foil Team World Cup
  • Took 5th in Juniors at the 2019 USA Summer Nationals
  • Took 7th in Juniors at the 2018 USA Summer Nationals
  • Bronze in Senior Team at the 2019 USA Summer Nationals
  • Took 8th at the 2019 Mexico City Senior Satellite World Cup
  • 2019 Guatemala City Junior Men’s Foil World Cup Silver Medalist
  • Took 18th at the 2019 Bucharest Senior Satellite World Cup
  • Placed 13th in Cadet at the 2018 Junior Olympics
  • Placed 15th in Cadet at the 2016 USA October NAC
  • Competed at 2 Cadet and Junior World Championships and 1 Senior World Championships
 Trains under coaches Andrej Raisch [USA/Club] and Florin Sebastian Gheorghe [ROU/Personal] (previously under Alexey Kuznetsov [USA/Personal]) at the National Sports Training Center [Taiwan/National]. Performance maintenance by the Sports Medicine Department’s Justin Lin at the Landseed Hospital [Taiwan]