Nzingha Prescod (born August 14, 1992) is an American foil fencer, World Champion in foil at the 2008 and 2009 Cadet World Cups,

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ist at the

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, three-time medalist at the

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, and two-time Olympian."Nzingha Prescod,"
Team USA. She has ranked as high as world # 5. Prescod was selected as an athlete director on the

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Board of Directors beginning in January 2021.

Biography

Prescod is a daughter of Marva Prescod and Homer Richardson, was born in New York City, and was named after Nzingha Mbande (a 17th century queen in what is now Angola, who fought against colonization by the Portuguese Empire). Her mother is a Vincentian lawyer. Prescod graduated from

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in New York City in 2010. She graduated from Columbia University in 2015, majoring in Political Science, and fencing for the Columbia Lions fencing team. Fencing for Columbia, in 2010-11 she was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, and First-Team All-Ivy League. She took the following year off to train for the Olympics. In 2012-13 she was again All-Ivy. In her Columbia career, she was 117-19 in foil bouts. She was World Champion in foil at the 2008 and 2009 Cadet World Cups. Prescod placed third in women’s foil at the 2011 Pan American Championships. In 2013, Prescod became the first US women’s foil fencer to win a Grand Prix title when she won the gold medal at the Marseilla Foil Grand Prix in France. She finished third in the Division I Women's Foil at the 2015 January NAC. Prescod competed in the individual women's foil event of the

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, at 19 years of age, where Prescod was defeated 10-15 in the table of 32 by Hungary's

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. In the team event Team USA lost to South Korea in the quarter-finals, and finished 6th after the placement matches. She was a

ist at the

. Prescod fenced in the 2016 Rio Olympics at 23 years of age, and came in 11th. In 2016 Prescod was one of eight Olympians selected for a six-month internship with EY (the former Ernst & Young) through its Women Athletes Business Network. As of 2020, she was working in data analytics for EY. Prescod, suffering from avascular necrosis, trained and competed for a year in increasing pain. In January 2020, facing the necessity of hip replacement surgery, Prescod announced her retirement from competition. Prescod was selected as an athlete director on the

Board of Directors beginning on January 1, 2021, as the top vote-getter in a vote by athletes who represented the US at the Olympics or Paralympics, Pan American Games, or Senior World Championships. She said that in 2020 the organization's disciplinary decisions "reeked of lenience and favorability for the offender."

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at US Fencing *Nzingha Prescod (July 10, 2020)
"An Open Letter To The USOPC & NGBs,"
Team USA. {{DEFAULTSORT:Prescod, Nzingha American female foil fencers 1992 births Living people Olympic fencers for the United States Fencers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Columbia Lions fencers Columbia College (New York) alumni Pan American Games medalists in fencing Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States Sportspeople from Brooklyn Fencers at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century American women

Biography

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