1996 Olympic Team at the White House
Women’s Foil
Dow, Helena Mroczkowska
(1917-1998) – AFLA national foil champion (1940, ’43, ’47, ’48). Member, U.S. Olympic team (1948). Coach of Fairleigh Dickinson University (Rutherford) (1968-71). NIWFA foil champion for Hofstra (1939).
Stewart, Mildred
Mildred Langdon Stewart, who lived in West Hempstead, New York, attended Hunter College and was trained by Georgio Santelli at Salle Santelli. She was a 2-time N.I.W.F.A. Foil champion (1936 & 1937) and made the 1940 U.S. Olympic Fencing team. Due to World War II, the Olympic Games were cancelled.
Mitchell, Maxine
Maxine Mitchell, 4 US Titles, 4th 1952 Helsinki Olympics, after a 4-way tie for 3rd.
1967 Pan Am Women’s Foil Team
1967 US Pan Am Games Women’s Foil Team
Left to Right: Veronica Smith, Harriet King, Jan Romary, Maxine Mitchell
Bradford, Vincent
USFA national foil champion (1984); national epee champion (1982, ’83,’84, ’86).
NIWFA foil champion (1975,’77) for San Jose State. Assistant Director USFA Coaches College. Coach, Texas Fencing Academy.
1988 Seoul Olympic Games Dave Littel and Sharon Monplaisir
United States’ foil fencers Dave Littel and Sharon Monplaisir at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
photo by Carl Borack
Angelakis, Jana
Jana won the Jr. Olympic Under 20 foil title 4 times (the first time when she was only 14), the U-19 National foil title 5 times, NCAA foil champion, won the Pan Am Games gold medal with the US foil team in 1983, US national foil champion 3 times, andwas a member of 2 Olympic teams (1980 & 1984).
deTuscan, Joanna
Joanna deTuscan is the first American woman ever to hold a World Foil title which she won in 1939 in London capturing the World Professional Foil title.
Vince, Marion Lloyd
(1909-1969) – AFLA national foil champion (1928, ’31); medalist eight times. Member, U.S. Olympic team (1928, ’32, ’36). Finalist, Olympic foil individual (1932) – ninth place. She was the first American woman to attain the Olympic finals. The national Under-19 women’s foil trophy is presented in her memory.
Smart, Erinn
Erinn Smart became involved in fencing at the age of 11 after her parents read in the newspaper about the Peter Westbrook Foundation, an organization founded by a six-time U.S. Olympian to draw in minority and underprivileged children to fencing.
Van Buskirk, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Van Buskirk was the 1930 U.S. Women’s foil champion representing the Fencers’ Club
O’Neill, Mary Jane
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Mary Jane O’Neill became the first Penn woman fencer to represent the United States in the Olympic Games, competing in 1988 at Seoul and again in 1992 at Barcelona.
Sullivan, Molly
1985 National Women’s Foil Champion, 1985 National U-19 Champion, 2-time Olympian, 2-time NCAA Champion