Elden Wood

Elden Wood
sabre
ACC Championships
University of North Carolina Fencing v Stanford
Eddie Smith Field House
Chapel Hill, NC
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

Elden Wood
sabre
University of North Carolina Fencing
Tar Heel Duals
Eddie Smith Field House
Chapel Hill, NC
Saturday, February 10, 2024

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

Height:
6-1
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
New York, N.Y.
High School:
Lycée Francais de New York

2025 ACC Men’s Scholar Athlete of the Year

ACC Men’s Fencer of the Week

2024-25 season:

Notched a career high twelve victories at the 2025 NCAA Championships earning All-American honors as he finished in 11th... Finished fifth at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional... Wood earned ACC Fencer of the Week honors for the three sweeps against Wagner, Haverford, and No. 5 Penn State, as he posted a 15-2 record at the Penn State Invitational.... Named to the All-ACC Academic team.

Before UNC: Competed for the Manhattan Fencing Center for ten years… Finished second at the Division One Men’s Sabre Summer Nationals in 2022… Top eight at the Division One Men’s Sabre April Nationals in 2022… Bronze Medal in Men’s Sabre at the 2022 Junior Olympics.

More on Wood: Father, Jeremy, fenced in college… Brother, Vance, was the team captain for the Men’s Sabre squad at Johns Hopkins from 2018-2021… Favorite artist is Kanye West… Son of Katia Schlienger and Jeremy Wood.