{"id":998,"date":"2025-06-24T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/oneill-mary-jane\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:32:31","slug":"oneill-mary-jane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/oneill-mary-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill, Mary Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jane O&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-995 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_MJONEILLfromPENN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"499\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_MJONEILLfromPENN.jpg 350w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_MJONEILLfromPENN-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><br \/>\nO&#8217;Neill was a three-time All-Ivy Leavue selection in foil (1984-1986) a three-time First-Team All-American (1983-1985) and the NCAA individual championship, the first by a Penn women&#8217;s varsity team.<\/p>\n<p>Following her senior year, O&#8217;Neill was the receipient of the Fathers&#8217; Award, given annually to Pennsylvania&#8217;s outstanding senior woman student-athlete.<\/p>\n<p>While training for the Olympics, she continued her studies in medical school at Harvard.\u00a0 O&#8217;Neill is now working at Massachusetts General Hospital as a radiologist.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeil-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"670\" align=\"bottom\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeil-p1.jpg 323w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeil-p1-145x300.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 323px) 100vw, 323px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-997\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeil-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"553\" align=\"bottom\" srcset=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeil-p2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeil-p2-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/site\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=363&amp;Itemid=44\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-994\" width=\"650\" height=\"150\" align=\"bottom\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/womensfoil_Mary-ONeill-banner%281%29.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"parent":0,"menu_order":152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-998","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-womens-foil"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/998\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofamericanfencing.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}