Sada Jacobson

Sada Jacobson

Sada Molly Jacobson, born on February 14, 1983, is an American Olympic fencer. She has won many medals in big competitions.

In the 2008 Olympics, she won a silver medal in the women's sabre event. In the 2004 Olympics, she won a bronze medal in the same event. She also won a gold medal at the 2003 Pan American Games in women's sabre.

Jacobson works very hard and is very good at fencing. Her success has inspired many young athletes. In 2016, she was honored by being put into the United States Fencing Hall of Fame for her great work in the sport.

Background

Sada Jacobson was born in Rochester, Minnesota. Her parents and sister were all good at fencing.

She went to school in Atlanta, Georgia and later studied history at Yale University. She chose to train for the 2004 Summer Olympics before starting college.

Fencing career

Sada Jacobson started fencing when she was young with Nellya Fencers. She was later coached by Arkady Burdan and Henry Hartunian at Yale University.

She won two NCAA sabre titles for Yale in 2001 and 2002. She was also the 2001 Under-19 National Champion. In 2003, she won the World Junior Fencing Championships in women's sabre.

Jacobson was part of the gold-medal winning team at the 2000 Women's Sabre World Championship when she was only 17 years old. She also won a bronze medal at the 2006 World Fencing Championships. She placed in the individual World Championships from 2001 to 2003.

She won the gold medal in sabre at the 2003 Pan American Games. Jacobson won the US women's sabre championship in 2004 and 2006 and was ranked #1 in the US from June 2003 through October 2005.

In 2004, at age 19, she became the first U.S. woman to be ranked No. 1 in the world in sabre. She won the bronze medal in women's sabre at the 2004 Summer Olympics, becoming the first women's sabre Olympic medalist. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she won the silver medal in individual sabre and a bronze in the team sabre event.

Post-fencing career

After the 2008 Olympic competitions, Sada Jacobson stopped fencing to focus on her studies and personal life. She got a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2011. She married Brendan Brunelle Bâby, who also fenced and won many championships, in May 2009. By 2015, she worked as a lawyer at McKenna Long & Aldridge.

Awards

Sada Jacobson won many awards for her success in fencing. In 2002 and 2005, she received the Marty Glickman Award for the Outstanding Jewish Scholastic Athlete of the Year. She was also named Academic All-Ivy League in 2002 and became the U.S. Fencer of the Year in 2003.

She was inducted into the U.S. National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2003, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, and the United States Fencing Hall of Fame in 2016.