Daryl Homer (SABER)
Coach: Akhi Spencer-El
Curtis McDowald (EPEE)
Coach: Alexey Cheremsky
Yeisser Ramirez (Epee)
Coach: Kornel Udvarhelyi
Khalil Thompson (SABER)
Coach: Akhi Spencer El
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Athletes’ Advisory Council, National Governing Bodies and the U.S. Olympians & Paralympians Association convened 44 members comprising the Team USA Council on Racial and Social Justice. Ben Bratton and Nzignha Prescod joined the steering committee for racism and acts of discrimination. Isis Washington was appointed to be a community ambassador. Read more here.
Ben Bratton
Nzingha Prescod
Isis Washington
Kamali and Khalil Thompson
New Jersey’s most unlikely pair of Olympic dreams started a decade and a half ago with a far more modest goal: A single mom, looking for something -- anything -- as an extracurricular activity for her high school-bound daughter.
That was it. Avis Bishop-Thompson heard a strange clack-clack-clacking noise coming from the ESL center at Teaneck High during an open house for incoming freshmen. She peeked in, saw several young athletes demonstrating an unfamiliar sport, and struck up a conversation with the team's head coach. Read the rest of the article here.
(Torun, Poland.) – Wake up. Fence for 12 hours. Win six pool bouts. Win six direct elimination bouts. Win World title. Sleep for a few hours. Repeat.
That has been the schedule for Team USA’s Lauren Scruggs (Ozone Park, N.Y.) for the past two days as the 16 year old followed her Junior (U20) World Championships win on Tuesday with a Cadet (U17) World Championship title on Wednesday. Read the rest of the article here.
PLANO, Texas-- For Team Toyota, mobility is more than just physical, it's facing challenges and chasing dreams. In advance of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, Toyota welcomes 14 new Team USA athletes and hopefuls and three returning U.S. Paralympians to Team Toyota.
Daryl Homer (USA Fencing): a two-time U.S. Olympian, Homer won the silver medal in individual saber at the Olympic Games Rio 2016. He has partnered with several global non-profits to bring sports to the forefront of youth engagement, recently being named an athlete role model for the Summer Youth Olympic Games Buenos Aires 2018. Read the rest of the article here
PHOTO: MARK ABRAMSON
Three days after winning the silver medal in fencing at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Keeth Smart started business school.
Not only has Mr. Smart deftly pivoted in his career, but he’ll soon be doing so for Chelsea Piers, overseeing its newly branded fitness center in his home borough. Read the article here.
PHOTO: CHRISTINE SCHOZER
Standing alert in the center is a 21-year-old woman adorned in Columbia University’s powder blue. She is more attentive than the rest, her positioning more complete. Her presence is large and dominant.
She wants you to know her name – Iman Blow. Read the article here.
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WUXI, China -- The U.S. women's fencing team made history Thursday, becoming the first American squad to win a senior world championship in the foil discipline. Read the article here.
PHOTO: FERRARO/BIZZI
On the heels of being named to his first Senior World Championship Team, Curtis McDowald claimed his best career result on the Senior World Cup circuit with a sixth-place finish at the Paris Men’s Épée World Cup. Read the article here.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
The junior defeated Notre Dame's Sabrina Massialas in the final, 15-13, to take home the top prize. Blow becomes the 36th individual NCAA Champion in Columbia history, and the first since Jake Hoyle won the men's epee title in 2016. She is the first women's fencer to win an individual title since Nicole Ross won the foil championship in 2010, and just the third women's foil NCAA Champion in Columbia history. Read the article here.
"I grew up in the Bronx," said the two-time Olympic medalist. "But this was a totally different experience. It was my first time in a prison. It was my first time seeing young people in a prison. I started in a program that used fencing as means to give children opportunity, and to better their lives," he told CNN.
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On Aug. 5, more than 10,500 of the greatest athletes in the world will stream into Maracanã Stadium for the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics...
BY SEAN GREGORY | PHOTOGRAPHS BY DANIEL SHEA FOR TIME
Credit: Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times
Ibtihaj Muhammad has qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She is the first American Olympian to compete while wearing a hijab. Read the article here.
In July, PWF proudly sent four athletes to the 2015 Senior World Fencing Championships in Moscow. Ben Bratton, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Nzingha Prescod and Yeisser Ramirez were among U.S. National Team fencers who helped the U.S. bring home five medals—the most in the history of the event for any American team.
Competition highlights included Muhammad and her fellow women’s sabre teammates winning the bronze medal, and a historic victory for Prescod. At 22, Prescod was the youngest fencer to compete in the semifinals, and became the first African-American woman to medal at the World Championships, earning the bronze.
Following their success in Moscow, PWF national team athletes were off to Toronto for the 2015 Pan American Games. There, Muhammad won the gold medal in the women’s sabre team event; Prescod, as well as Bratton and Ramirez, captured silver medals in the women’s foil team and men’s epee team events, respectively.
Peter Westbrook and the entire PWF family congratulate these athletes on their accomplishments, and are thrilled to offer continued support as they embark on their journeys to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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