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The organization was founded on April 22, 1891, in New York City, initially as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA). [5] [7] Graeme Hammond was its first president, from 1891 to 1925. [9] The AFLA was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in Pennsylvania in 1964, [7] and changed its name to the United States Fencing Association in ...
The U.S. Fencing Coaches Association (USFCA) is an association of United States fencing coaches, and was established in 1941. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a national academy of the Academie d'Armes Internationale (AAI), the world organization of fencing masters , which has as members more than 20 nations. [ 4 ]
The United States Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs (USACFC) was established in 2003 [1] to educate and promote collegiate fencing throughout the United States. The organization has over 45 teams, [2] about one-third of the schools [3] with non-varsity college club fencing in the U.S. USACFC became a nonprofit corporation in 2005.
The namesake organization was founded by the bronze-winning sabre fencer in 1991 to address “social, physical, academic, and health barriers by leveraging the unique sport of fencing to offer ...
Inducted into the United States Fencing Hall of Fame, Westbrook was a five-time Olympian. He made his first appearance at the 1976 Montreal Games and competed through the 1996 Atlanta Games.
This is a list of the members of the United States Fencing Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame itself is on display at the Museum of American Fencing , in Shreveport, Louisiana . [ 1 ]
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The Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) was founded on April 22, 1891, in New York City by a group of fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union.As early as 1940, the AFLA was recognized by the Fédération Internationale d'Escrime (FIE) and the United States Olympic Committee as the national governing body for fencing in the United States.