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The United States Fencing Hall of Fame (or "U.S. Fencing Association Hall of Fame") is a hall of fame for fencers. It is located in the Museum of American Fencing in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was founded as the National Fencing Coaches Association Hall of Fame on February 15, 1963, and was previously located at Helms Sports Hall of Fame ...
The New Jersey Interscholastic Fencing Association includes Montgomery High School, The Pingry School, Voorhees High School, and more. Georgia in particular has seen growing interest in high school fencing. The Georgia High School Fencing League was founded in 2004 and in the 2013–14 season numbers 17 schools and over 350 fencers.
Fencing is a coed sport, with teams having men's and women's squads, although some schools field only a women's team. Schools of every division compete together regularly. Most major conferences do not sponsor fencing, with the notable exceptions of the Ivy League, the Atlantic Coast Conference, and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
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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 ...
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 ]
Fencing is a combat sport that features sword fighting. [1] The three disciplines of modern fencing are the foil, the épée, and the sabre (also saber); each discipline uses a different kind of blade, which shares the same name, and employs its own rules.
The event covers Olympic fencing, as well as the HEMA disciplines of longsword, rapier and dagger, military saber, and Harnisfechten. It was originally part of the larger Arnold Sports Festival as the Arnold Fencing Classic. [32] [33] Since 2004, FightCamp has been running and it is organized by London-based Schola Gladiatoria. [34]