Olympia Fencing Center is one of the fewer, among over 460 active fencing clubs in the US, recognized to have significantly contributed to the pipeline of USA Fencing National Team members in the 2019-2020 season. The criteria for the awarded included World Championship results and team qualification as well as Senior and Junior World Cup results. The inaugural class of award... Read More
Olympia fencers find great success at the 2019 Summer Nationals and July Challenge, held in Columbus, Oh, this July. Emily Vermeule is the new National Champion in Div l Women's Epee, and foilist Daniel Zhang wins also the Div l Men’s Foil! At only fifteen years old, Daniel is the youngest fencer to win a Div l title in any... Read More
Olympia Fencing Center will be closed on July 4, 5, 6 and, respectively, the 7th (Thursday to inclusively Sunday), in observance of the Independence Day. All classes, private lessons and Open Fencing, are canceled. We'll return to our modified summer schedule on Monday, July 8th. Happy July 4th to all, enjoy the long weekend, celebrate Independence!! In the meantime, watch our students' performance... Read More
Over fifty Olympia fencers have participated in the 31st annual Pomme De Terre competition, held this weekend at Brandeis University. We're extremely proud to continue our tradition and bring home Nine medals, this time: four GOLD, one SILVER and four BRONZE, over ten events, in Foil and Epee! 15 Fencers have made it to top 8, 25 fencers to top 16, and... Read More
Pan American Games 2019 Bogota, Columbia Forty-four U.S. athletes were selected to represent Team USA at this Junior and Cadet Championship, in Bogota, Colombia. In the Women's Epee Teams events, Olympia's Emily Vermeule scored the most touches among the three US Team women epeeists (Vermeule, Candreva, Nixon), defeating Canada in the final, and winning the Gold with a final score of... Read More
Denver, Colorado February 16, 2019 Olympia's Daniel Zhang wins the Juniors Men's event, among 319 best foil fencers in the US!! Daniel was one of the youngest athletes in the competition, he is only 15 years old and he's training with coaches Kai Zhao and Shuang Meng since 2012. Besides Daniel, 18 of Olympia's fencers have placed in top 64, and four made top 16... Read More
Olympia students mark another successful year, at the 2019 Capitol Clash, in National Harbor, MD. A plethora of medals find their way home, to Cambridge, thanks to hard work, focus and ability to follow their coaches directions. One of the most unforgetful moments of the competition is was Tony Whelan's great comeback from a deficit of nine points, only to win the Y14... Read More
First national competition of the year ended on Monday, in Charlotte, NC. The event was held at the Charlotte Convention Center and brought together some of the best fencers in the US and abroad. Division I, Junior, Senior Team and Wheelchair events have gathered a big crowd of fencers to compete for the titles, over four days of fencing. Here... Read More
