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The United States Fencing Association (USFA) is the national governing body for the sport of fencing in the United States. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The USFA was founded in 1891 as the Amateur Fencers League of America (AFLA) by a group of New York fencers seeking independence from the Amateur Athletic Union .
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.
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 ]
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His success with the Rochester Fencing Center garnered worldwide attention. He was the first to produce an American Fencing World Champion, and was an Olympic fencing coach in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2020. [1] He was inducted into the USA Fencing Hall of Fame in 2013. [2]
Lee Kiefer and Gerek Meinhardt have been dubbed the first couple of U.S. Fencing. Kiefer and Meinhardt are both competing in their fourth, and possibly final, Olympic Games as a couple in Paris 2024.
USA Fencing executive director Kris Ekeren responded to a concerned parent, who alleged their daughter was touched inappropriately by a coach, by blaming parents for not reading emails sent by ...
Team USA (from left: Nzingha Prescod, Sabrina Massialas, Nicole Ross, and Lee Kiefer) in 2015. Prescod, a daughter of Marva Prescod and Homer Richardson, was born in New York City, and was named after Nzingha Mbande (a 17th century queen in what is now Angola , who fought against colonization by the Portuguese Empire ).