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The Fencers Club in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is the oldest fencing club in the Western Hemisphere. [1] It is a member of the Metropolitan Division of the U.S. Fencing Association . Established in 1883, it has evolved into a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit fencing organization dedicated to fencing and community service.
Monica Aksamit (born 1990), saber fencer; won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Women's Saber Team competition. [5]Daryl Homer (born 1990), saber fencer; competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics; won the silver medal in individual saber at the 2016 Olympics, was a silver medalist at the 2015 World Fencing Championships, and is a five-time gold medalist ...
Pages in category "Fencing clubs" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. ... New York Athletic Club; P. Panathinaikos Fencing; S. Salle Jean Louis;
In 2015, Morehouse founded the Morehouse Fencing Club) in New York, NY. It opened October 12. The club has saber, foil, and épée programs. The club specializes in beginner fencers, both youth and adult. It also offers advanced classes for competitive sabre fencers. The classes are arranged by age and skill level. Morehouse hopes his club will ...
He founded the Peter Westbrook Foundation (PWF), a 501(c)(3) non-profit that uses fencing as a vehicle to help young people from under-served New York City communities develop life and academic skills. Westbrook died on November 29, 2024 in Manhattan, New York from liver cancer. He was 72 years old.
Peter Westbrook, a groundbreaking fencer who became the first African-American and Asian-American to win a medal in fencing at the 1984 Summer Olympics, died on Friday, November 29 in New York ...
In the early 1970s, he coached at the Fencers Club. [2] He was the head fencing coach at NYU from 1975 to 1977, and led the team to the 1976 NCAA Championship. [12] In 1977 he coached the fencing team at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, New York City. [26] Starting in 2011 and through at least 2016, he coached Teaneck High School.
New York Magazine called the original club “a club for Dull Men to gather and wantonly discuss the unsexy details of their lives. … Dullness is for these members a bland blanket, a respite ...