New Jersey Institute of Technology Athletics

2017-18: Recorded a 15th place finish at the NCAA Regionals. ... a senior from Bonn, Germany, combined for a 43-22 record.  She finished with 11 wins at the Elite Invitational, 15-6 at the Philadelphia Invitational and 15-3 at the Eric Sollee Invitational.

2016-17: Placed 12^th on the foil strip making it to the final round at 2017 Mid-Atlantic/South Regional Fencing Championships combined for a 57-17 overall mark this season.  Shigihara combined for a 9-6 mark at the Elite Penn Invitational, going 3-0, against #16 Temple and picking up two wins against #21 UNF and #8
Penn. ...Shigihara recorded a 13-1 record at the Eric Sollee Invitational, sweeping Yeshiva, Boston College and Brandeis.  She followed up her performance with a 15-3 overall record at the FDU Invitational, combining for 3-0 victories, against Stevens, Wagner, Drew and Hunter. ...She went undefeated, 9-0, at the NJIT Invitational against William & Mary, Army and Navy.

2015-16: Took 16th at the 2016 NCAA National Collegiate Fencing Championships on the foil strip. ... Shigihara topped Liana Semel of Harvard, 5-3, a junior olympic silver medalist and team gold medalist in 2014.  She also defeated two-time All-American fencer from Italy, Irene Spezzanmonte of St. John's, 5-2. ...This season, she captured the Regional Open Circuit (ROC) Division 1A title, becoming the second NJIT athlete to win at a Regional Open Circuit.  She finished with a 15-3 overall at the Eric Sollee Invitational, leading the foil team to a 6-3 victory over Haverford.  She defeated Haverford, MIT and Stevens 3-0, and Brandeis, Brown and Boston College 2-0. ...Shigihara was named to the CollegeFencing360.com Primetime Performers Honor Roll (January 22), for her performance at the DeCicco Duals hosted by Norte Dame on January 16.  She lost only one of her 16 bouts in the foil strip and recorded a 68-25 edge in total touches and her only loss came from All-American Zuzanna Sobczak from Wayne State. ...Shigihara swept all her bouts against the top-ranked host Notre Dame, and yielded only two touches against both Lawrence and Detriot Mercy, with whom she went 3-0 against. ...won her second Division I A Regional Open Circuit in March 2016, earning her A 2016 classification.

2014-15: One of 7 women's fencers representing NJIT at the NCAA Fencing Regionals. ... entered the competition seeded 15th, had a bye into the round of 24.  She went 3-2 in teh second round and was seedd 11th after the second round advancing to the third roun where she went 2-3. Jule was again seeded 11th after the third round and advanced to the final round-robin of 12.  Jule went 2-9 in the final round and finished the event 12th in the region. ... combined for an 11-4 record on the foil strip at the 2015 FDU Invitational (swept FDU, Brandeis, Johns Hopkins while picking up two wins against Stevens). ... top performer at the Eric Solle Invitational hosted by MIT. ... went 9-0 sweeping opponents Brown, Boston College and Brandeis. Shigihara also picked up 3-0 wins over Hunter and Yeshiva on the epee strip.

Prior to NJIT: Member of the German, Cadet and Junior National Teams. … Third at the U17 Individual European Cadet Circuit in Austria. … Seventh at U17 Team and 22nd in individual competition at the European Cadet Championships. … 16th-place at the U20 National Individual Championships. … Second at the U20 National Team Championships and U17 Individual State Championships. … Fourth-place finish at Senior State Individual Championships and fifth-place finish at U20 Individual State Championships. … intends to major in biology.

Personal: Jule Hana Shigihara. ... daughter of Tatsuya and Sabine Shigihara. ... enrolled in NJIT's Albert Dorman Honors College and major in biology. ... born in Troisdorf, Germany.