Team USA’s Men’s Foil Fencers Aim To Parry Their Way To Gold: “Together, We Are Unstoppable”
All told the foursome each owns at least one Olympic medal, plus a combined 25 world championships medals.
Athlete Bio#
Height
6'0"
Age
30
Hometown
Wallingford, PA
Education
Strath Haven High School (Wallingford, Penn.) '12 Columbia University ’16, Economics and Business Management
Quick Facts
- Introduced to the sport when one of his middle school clubs held fencing lessons
- Began setting up fencing strips on the floor of his school cafeteria to practice with friends
- In February 2019, became the first American man to win two medals on the world cup circuit in a single season since Seth Kelsey in 2010
- Lifelong fan of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Career Highlights
- Back-to-back NCAA men’s individual epee champion (2015, 2016)
- 2015 Pan American Games, gold (team) and bronze (individual)
Olympic Experience
- One-time Olympian (2020)
- Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, 9th (team), 26th (individual)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2018 – 8th (team), 64th (individual)
- Years of Participation: 2018
- Top finish: 8th – 2018 (team)
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