b>High School: Four-time letterwinner and team captain at Pope H.S. ... Three-time individual state champion ... Collected more than 200 career victories ... Had eight-time gold medalist ... Named to the Academic All-America fencing team ... High school team won team women's state championships in 2012 and 2013 ... Competed with the Dunwoody Fencing Club since 2011 ... Ranked 40th in Cadet National Point standings and 70th in Junior National Points ... Member of the following National Honor Societies: English, Spanish, and Science ... Class Salutatorian ... AP scholar with distinction ... National Merit semifinalist.

Personal: Daughter of Julie Newell and Bowdoin Van Riper ... Chose Northwestern over Brown and Boise State ... Competed against fellow Wildcats Courtney Dumas, Mandeep Bhinder and Helen Foster ... Won a silver medal in Junior Olympic windsurfing ... Father once held a post-doctorate position at Northwestern ... Anticipated major is psychology.