Articles

• ESPN.com - Westbrook Turns Fighters Into World-Class Fencers (8/17/04)
• ESPN.com - Smart Falls Short (8/14/04)
• Sportsline.com - American Jacobson seeded No. 1 in women's saber draw (8/13/04)
• SI.com - Sister Act (8/12/04)
• SI.com - 2004 Olympic Medal Picks: Fencing (8/12/04)
• Houston Chronicle - Summer Olympics Preview - Fencing (7/13/04)
• Charlotte Observer (free reg req'd)- Former Fencing Student is Now Head of the Class (7/11/04)
• Charlotte Observer (free reg req'd)- Area Fencer Foiled (7/7/04)
• The Oregonian - Portland's Zagunis Added to Olympic Fencing Team (6/8/04)
• The Guernsey Press and Star - Clean Sweep for Parish - Results from a UK youth tournament(5/26/04)
• TwinCities.com Pioneer Press - Honing Her Edge - Shelby MacLeod profiled (5/24/04)
• San Diego Union-Tribune - Point Man - Soren Thompson profiled (5/21/04)
• The Winchester Star - On Guard! And Get Fit - A Civilized Way to Duel Health Risks (5/17/04)
• BendBulletin.com - Fencing Star Looks to Soar at Air Force (5/16/04)
• The Ottowa Sun - MacKay Bronzed in Italy (5/15/04)
• La Voz - En Garde: Fencing De Anza Style (5/10/04)
• Sunday Times (South Africa) - High Hopes for Pentathalon (5/8/04)
• Newsday.com - Olympians, en garde! (5/8/04)
• SportsFeatures.com - Canadian Fencers Qualified for Athens (5/7/04)
• Chester Chronicle - Anna Makes the Cut (5/7/04)
• Valley News Dispatch - O'Hara girl climbs ladder in fencing (5/6/04)
• Kansas City Star - A Fondness For - Young Olathe competitor rises to the top (5/5/04)
• New Zealand Herald - Beer to become NZ's first Olympic fencer (5/4/04)
• Alameda Times-Star - Historic sport of fencing finds new popularity (5/3/04)
• The News Journal - Fencing keeps students on guard (5/3/04)
• ESPN - Fencing Program Heals Lives (4/27/04)
• Air Force Sports - Former Fencer to Represent United States in 2004 Olympics (4/27/04)
• Herald Tribune - Fencers Club Wins at National Championships (4/27/04)
• China View - China Bags 10 Golds in Asian Fencing Championships (4/26/04)
• ESPN - Columbia, New York City Draw Fencers (4/25/04)
• USA Today - Siblings Give USA a Double Edge (4/25/04)

Profiles

• Seth Kelsey - 2004 U.S. Olympian from AirForceSports.com, includes 10-question interview
• Seth Kelsey - a second piece on Kelsey
• Laura Hillstrom - Penn State freshman (4/26/04)
• Keeth Smart - First U.S. fencer to be ranked #1 in the world.  Here's a pre-Sydney Olympic interview with Keeth.
• Erinn Smart - U.S. National Champion
• Iris Zimmerman - U.S. National Champion, Olympian
• Felicia Zimmerman - U.S. National Champion, Olympian
• Julia Leszko - U.S. Epee Champion
• Tamir Bloom - Epee fencer, U.S. Olympian
• Kamara James - Spotlight from the Summer 2003 issue of American Fencing
• Colin Chock writes about Micheal Marx, Peter Westbrook and Heizaburo Okawa; also, he relates Marx's telling of the tragic fencing death of Olympic Champion Vladamir Smirnov by the broken blade of Matthias Behr
• Anja Fichtel - German multi-time Olympic and World Championship medalist
• Janusz Bednarski - Notre Dame Head Coach
• Paul Apsimon - Former Canadian National Team member
• Tony Orsi - 1996 write-up
• Desirae Amelia Major - Youth Fencer, Y10 NAC Winner
• Julia Földi - Hungarian, Div II/III NAC Foil/Sabre medalist; Northwestern fencer
• Amelia Gaillard
• Annika Eiremo
• Sam Boutris - Spotlight article from the Summer 2003 issue of American Fencing
• See some nice profiles on each Notre Dame fencer

Historic

• Nedo Nadi - In 1920, won 5 gold medals in one Olympics for Italy, including all three team events and each individual event except Epee.
• Helene Mayer - Won 8 U.S., 6 German & 1 Italian National Championships, World Championship; won a silver Olympic medal in 1936 under Hitler despite her Jewish blood
• Here's a second Helen Mayer profile, with several photos
• Henry J. Uyttenhove - Belgian, First USC coach
• Jean Heremans - Belgian, Second USC coach