Career Highlights:
All-American (2024, National Runner-Up); NCAA Qualifier (2024, 2025); First Team All-Region (2025); USFCA Honorable Mention All-America (2025)
2024-25 / JUNIOR SEASON
Posted an 18-12 record during the regular season....Earned first team All-Region honors...National qualifier for the seconds traight season...Placed ninth at the NCAA tournament...Named Honorable Mention All-America by the USFCA in April.
2023-24 / SOPHMORE SEASON:
Named first on the All-Mid-Atlantic/South team. Finished 1st place in men’s sabre at the regional championships. Lilov won 19/23 bouts throughout the NCAA tournament earning him 2nd place. During the October NAC Sophomore Neil Lilov finished in the top 8 in men's sabre by placing 7th out of 210 fencers. At the November NAC Lilov led the Nittany Lions with a third place finish in junior men's saber out of 308 participants, tying for third with Lukas H. Eichhorn. Lilov also fenced with his Lilov Fencing Team in the junior team men's saber event where they also placed third.
2022-23 / FRESHMAN SEASON:
Season: Went 32-25 through true freshman campaign with 3-0 wins over Haverford, Johns Hopkins, Stevens and Penn. Finished in 23rd place at Mid-Atlantic/South Regionals.
HIGH SCHOOL / PERSONAL:
Neil Lilov comes to Penn State from New Jersey’s Morris Knolls High School...Four-year letterman...Helped lead team to District 2 Championship in 2022...Fenced at the Lilov Fencing Academy for head coach and father Serge...Member of the 2021 Cadet World Team, having won multiple NAC medals...Son of Tatiana and Serge Lilov...Has one younger sister, Masha...Father fenced at Penn State in mid-1990s, was a three-time All-American...Considering a finance major.
CAREER STATS
Season W L .PCT
2022-23 32 25 .561
2023-24 43 10 .811
2024-25 18 12 .667
Career 50 37 .575