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Fencing Hours:
Mon - Fri:1 PM - 10 PM
Saturday:12 PM - 6 PM
Sunday:10 AM - 5 PM

Office Hours:
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Saturday:9 AM - 8 PM
Sunday:9 AM - 4 PM

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please call 646-644-3812

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Coaches

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Seoung-Woo Lee

Kornel Udvarhelyi

Boris Vaksman
Ed Elterman

Simon Gershon

Irene Gershon

Nitai Kfir

Buckie Leach

Mikhail Petin
Akhnaten Spencer-El




Mikhail Petin

petin@fencersclub.com
347 528 9558

Mikhail Petin - Olympic Coach, Beijing 2008. Mikhail earned his Masters degree in both Physical Education and fencing at the Institute of Physical Education, Lvov/Ukraine. Since arriving in the United States, he has had great success developing students from all skill levels who have qualified for Olympic, Senior, Junior and Cadet National Teams, achieving some of the best World Cup results in recent years. His top U.S. students have won Silver Medal in Olympic Games (Beijing, 2008), 4 Gold and 4 Bronze Medals at the Junior and Cadet World Championships, as well as numerous international, national and NCAA Titles. One of his students - Emily Cross, was a member of the US Women’s Foil Olympic Team (Beijing, 2008), where she won a Silver Medal. Mikhail is a former US National Women’s Foil Coach, he was also awarded 2003 Fencing Developmental Coach of the Year by the Untied States Olympic Committee. Mikhail has placed students at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell University, The University of Pennsylvania, Penn State, Brown, Stevens, NYU, Saint John’s and Brandeis.

Coaching Schedule: Monday through Friday 3:00pm-9:00pm; Saturday from 10:00am-6:00pm.

Notable students:

Emily CrossOlympic Games (Beijing, 2008)-Silver Medalist - US Women’s Foil Team, Three times World Champion - 2006, 2005 Junior World Champion and 2003 Cadet World Champion, Bronze Medallist 2000 & 2003 Junior World Team Championships, Silver Medallist 2003 Pan American Games, 2001-2007 Senior World Championships Team, 2007-2008 - Senior World Cup Competitions Medalist and Finalist, 2 Gold and 1 silver medals at the Junior World Cup Competitions,2006 - US National Champion, 2005 NCAA Champion, 2002-2006 Under-16 & Under-19 National Champion.
Nzingha Prescod2008 Cadet World Champion, Bronze Medalist 2008 Senior World Cup, Las Vegas. 2008 Junior national Champion.
Brendan MeyersBronze Medallist 2004 Junior World Championships, Bronze Medallist 2002 Cadet World Championships, Finalist at 2003 Cadet World Championships, 2002-2004 Junior World Teams, 2004 Junior World Cup Finalist, 2001-2002 Cadet National Champion, 2003-2004 Under-19 National Champion.
Jon Tiomkin2004 US Olympic Team-4th place Team Competition,1999, 2002 US National Champion, Senior World Cup Bronze Medalist and Finalist.
Alisa MendelsohnBronze Medallist 2002 Junior Pan American Games
Arielle Pensler2004 Bronze Medallist Coupe de Samaria in Slovakia,2004 Bronze Medallist Junior and Cadet US National Championships.
Alexander Pensler2008 Bronze Medalist Cadet National Championships, Finalist 2008 Junior National Championships.
Lowden Charles2005 Bronze Medalist Under-19 National Championships.
Bolivar Charles2004 Gold Medallist Youth-12 National Championships,
2006 - Bronze Medalist Under-14 National Championships.
Hyun-Kyung Yuh2008 Bronze Medalist Junior National Championships, 2005 Gold Medalist Youth- 14 National Championships, 2006 - Junior World Cup finalist in Canada.