Erica Shen-Ning Wu (born May 15, 1996) is an American

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She was the 2011 and 2012 US national champion in women's doubles (with

Gao Jun Gao Jun (; born January 25, 1969) is a Chinese American table tennis player. Biography Gao Jun was born in Baoding, Hebei province of China. She now resides in Southern California. She is the owner of California Table Tennis club in Rosemead, ...

) and reached the semifinals in women's singles at the 2011, 2012 and 2013 US national championships. She was part of the US team that won the bronze medal at the 2011 Pan American Games. At the 2012 North American Championships, Wu was the runner-up in women's singles behind fellow Olympian

Lily Zhang Lily Ann Zhang (born June 16, 1996) is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with teammates Ariel Hsing and Erica Wu. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio with teammates Jiaqi Zheng ...

. she was a senior at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

studying computer science. Between 2018 and 2022, she worked as a Software Engineer at Meta.

Personal life

Erica Wu was born in Arcadia, California. Her parents are

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

ese immigrants who worked as

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. She is an only child.Huang, Josie
Arcadia teenager Erica Wu dreams of Olympic qualification
KPCC, April 20, 2012.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wu, Erica 1996 births Living people American sportspeople of Taiwanese descent American female table tennis players American sportswomen of Chinese descent Sportspeople from Arcadia, California Olympic table tennis players for the United States Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Princeton University people Pan American Games bronze medalists for the United States Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Table tennis players at the 2011 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games 21st-century American women