{"id":505,"date":"2025-06-25T22:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/normile-jon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T22:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:16:23","slug":"normile-jon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/normile-jon\/","title":{"rendered":"Normile, Jon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JON NORMILE was inducted February 18, 2006 (Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame)<br \/>\nNormile came out of the Cleveland area and stepped into Columbia fencing immortality. He helped the Lions to four Ivy League championships (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989), making All-Ivy League three times. Columbia won three consecutive NCAA Championships with Normile\u2019s assistance, in 1987, 1988, and 1989 \u2014 in each season, he made All-American. He captained the 1989 team.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"450\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mhXpXCDhgQw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nAndy Shaw interviews Jon Normile and Bill\u00a0Reith at the 2010 Summer Nationals in Atlanta, Ga.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>JON NORMILE, inducted February 18, 2006 (Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORMILEepeechampion1.jpg\" alt=\"JON NORMILE epee champion \" width=\"550\" height=\"432\" align=\"bottom\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They could have called them The Three Musketeers \u2014 three Columbia Lions who dominated Ivy League and national collegiate men\u2019s fencing during the late 1980s. Jon Normile was the epeeist, Chris Reohr and Bob Cottingham fenced sabre. Together, they captured four NCAA championships and countless other titles. This year, Jon Normile is the first to enter the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Normile came out of the Cleveland area and stepped into Columbia fencing immortality. He helped the Lions to four Ivy League championships (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989), making All-Ivy League three times. Columbia won three consecutive NCAA Championships with Normile\u2019s assistance, in 1987, 1988, and 1989 \u2014 in each season, he made All-American. He captained the 1989 team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip\" style=\"margin: 5px; width: 450px; height: 548px;\" title=\"NORMILEin1992A.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORMILEin1992A.jpg\" alt=\"NORMILEin1992A.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"548\" align=\"bottom\" \/><br \/>\nNormile captured two NCAA men\u2019s epee individual championships, as a junior and senior, winning the IFA men\u2019s epee title his junior year. Following his 1989 graduation with a B.S. in civil engineering, he continued to fence, with great success. He earned a silver medal at the 1991 Pan American Games, and made the U.S. team in the 1992 Olympics. He later qualified for two World Championships, and finished third at an International World Cup event in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>A three-time U.S. National Men\u2019s Epee champion, he helped his New York Athletic Club team to nine U.S. National Epee titles and coached at the NYAC for many years.<\/p>\n<p>Although he no longer competes, Normile stays in touch with the sport by coaching young children. The man they called \u201cThe Rock\u201d remembers his years at Columbia fondly, especially \u201cbeing a member of the Columbia fencing team and enjoying the camaraderie of my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Having acquired an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, he works in risk management at Goldman Sachs and spends some of his spare time surfing, noting that he \u201c[caught] an eight-foot wave at the Jersey Shore during hurricane season.\u201d He also is interested in experimental aviation.<\/p>\n<p>The Jersey City, N.J., resident plans to marry this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=197&amp;Itemid=48\" style=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"jce_tooltip alignleft size-full wp-image-502\" style=\"margin: 5px; float: left; width: 120px; height: 98px;\" title=\"NORMILEepeechampion2.jpg\" alt=\"NORMILEepeechampion2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/NORMILEepeechampion2.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a>JON NORMILE was inducted February 18, 2006 (Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame) <br \/> Normile came out of the Cleveland area and stepped into Columbia fencing immortality. He helped the Lions to four Ivy League championships (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989), making All-Ivy League three times. Columbia won three consecutive NCAA Championships with Normile\u2019s assistance, in 1987, 1988, and 1989 \u2014 in each season, he made All-American. He captained the 1989 team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"parent":0,"menu_order":61,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[154,341,260,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-505","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-mens-epee","7":"tag-epee-fencing","8":"tag-jon-normile","9":"tag-mens-epee","10":"tag-normile"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/505\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}