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Team Accomplishments

NCAA Team Champions:
  • 1950 Samuel Powel III (saber), Jerome Stuart (foil), Thomas Stuart (epee)
  • 1959* Alfonso Morales (saber), Joseph Paletta (foil), Roland Wommack (epee)
  • 1962 Edwin Hurst (saber), John McCarthy (foil), Thane Hawkins (epee)

(*Only 3 teams have won NCAA team championships by sweeping 1 st place in all three weapons:  Navy (1959), NYU (1960 & ’61), and Columbia (1988))

NCAA Runner up: 
  • 1948, 1953, 1960, 1963

*Of USNA's 5 NCAA Team Champions, 3 were from fencing

Individual NCAA champions:
  • Foil : Saber : Epee :
  • Joseph Paletta 1959 James Day 1948 William Bryan 1948
  • Frank Zimolzak 1952 Thomas R. Stuart 1950
  • Alfonso Morales 1959 Roland Wommack 1958 and ‘59
  • Thane Hawkins 1962
  • Lawrence Crum 1963
NCAA Fencers of the Year:
  • 1953 – Frank Zimolzak (saber) 1969 – James Davidson (epee)
  • 1955 – John Gonzalez (foil) 1970 – Joseph “Bert” Freeman (foil)
  • 1959 – Roland Wommack (epee) 1981 – Gregory Pace (epee)
Olympians

The following alumni fencers and coaches represented the U.S. in the Olympics :

  • 1912: Marc W. Larimer (class of ‘12) individual foil and epee
  • 1920: George Calnan (’20) individual foil
  • Roscoe L Bowman (’21) individual and team saber
  • Edwin G. Fullinwider (‘21) individual and team saber  (youngest U.S. Olympian, age 19)
  • Claiborne J. Walker (‘21) individual and team saber
  • Frederick J. Cunningham (‘20) individual and team saber
  • George Heintz Jr. assistant coach
  • 1924:   George Calnan (’20) individual and team foil and epee
  • Edwin G. Fullinwider (’21) team saber
  • Thomas P. Jeter (‘19) individual and team foil
  • 1928:   George Calnan (’20) individual and team foil and epee, bronze medal for individual epee 
  • 1932:   George Calnan (’20) team foil, individual and team epee, 2 bronze medals in team epee and team foil 
  • Curtis Shears (’22) team epee, bronze medal
  • Richard Steere (’31) team foil, bronze medal
  • 1960:   Alfonso Morales (’60) individual and team saber
  • Joseph Paletta (‘60) individual and team foil
  • Roland Wommack (’59) team epee
  • Andre Deladrier head coach
  • 1964:   Alfonso Morales (’60) team saber 
  • 1968:   Alfonso Morales (’60) individual and team saber 
  • 1972:   Alfonso Morales (’60) individual and team saber
  • Joseph “Bert” Freeman (‘70) individual and team foil 
  • 1976:   Edward Donofrio (‘73) individual and team foil
  • 1984: Edwin Hurst ’62 served as Manager of Fencing Competition.

Club conferences

U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs individual and squad national champions :
  • Rae Katz (women’s epee) 2004
  • Joel Katz (men’s epee) 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Naomi Ngalle, Sara Shea, Maryam Al-Hassan (women’s saber squad)  2015
  • Naomi Ngalle, Sara Shea, Naadia Puri (women’s saber squad)  2016
  • James Henderson, Sebastian Keefer, Chris Meacham, Andrew Weiss (men’s saber squad) 2019
U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs (USACFC) team national champions :
  • Navy women - 2014  (3 rd in epee, 5 th in foil, 6 th in epee – 1 st place combined women’s team)

(In 2019, the men’s and women’s combined team finished 2 nd .)

Baltimore Washington Collegiate Fencing Conference combined team champions (mixed gender) :
  • 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
BWCFC Individual Champions:
  • 2006 – Joel Katz (epee)
  • 2007 – Joel Katz (epee)
  • 2008 – Joel Katz (epee)
  • 2009 – Anthony Giunipero (saber)
  • 2010 – Billy McCrone (saber)
  • 2011 – Billy McCrone (saber)
  • 2012 – Conor Cross (epee), Jordan Rettie (saber)
  • 2013 – Corey Grey (epee)
  • 2015 – Sam Polsinelli (saber)
  • 2016 – Andrew Klassen (epee), Naomi Ngalle (saber)
  • 2017 – Marshall Yaklin (foil), Travis Dill (epee)
  • 2018 – Krista Trefren (saber)
  • 2019 – James Henderson (saber), Caroline Finley (epee), Andrew Klassen (epee)
Elected to the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame :
  • George Calnan (’20), Clovis Deladrier, Andre Deladrier, Alfonso Morales (’60)

Naval Academy Hall of Fame 

Headlee, C. D.

1917

Parker, J. T., Jr.

1955

Calnan, George

1920

Hill, R. W.

1956

Cunningham, F J.

1920

Kirkpatrick, J. H.

1956

Fullinwider, E. G. 

1920

Wolverton, J. R.

1956

Becker, A. E.

1922

Paletta, Joseph, Jr.

1959

Guider, J. W. 

1922

Wommack, R. R.

1959

Hunter, G. P.

1922

Cauley, Bernard J.

1960

Malstrom, A. I.

1922

Lewis, William E.

1960

Shears, C. C.

1922

Morales, Alfonso H.

1960

Callaway, C. H.

1924

Hawkins, Thane D.

1962

Stubbs, D.

1925

Hurst, Edwin K., II

1962

Eskilson, E. T.

1926

McCarthy, J.J., Jr.

1962

Bennett, R.

1927

Crum, Lawrence A.

1964

Foley, H. J. P., Jr.

1938

Frey, Raymond

1964

de Poix, V. P.

1939

Fluhrer, Norman P.

1965

Campo, A. C.

1940

Heredia, A. B.

1966

Stokes, G. P.

1942

Hewitt, Frank F.

1967

Blalack, R. E.

1944

Davidson, James A.

1969

Day, James C.

1948

Freeman, Joseph B. 

1970

Bryan, W. L.

1949

Solecki, Peter K.

1972

Powel, S. F., III

1950

Donofrio, Edward J.

1973

Stuart, Jerome C.

1951

Richards, R. E., Jr.

1978

Stuart, Thomas R.

1951

Meyer (Druce), R.

1980

Utterback, P. W.

1951

Boddie (Mines), G.

1981

Hiller, Melvin L.

1953

Pace, Gregory H.

1981

Leavitt, H. M.

1953

Lefon, Carroll F., Jr.

1982

Zimolzak, Frank

1953

Hitchcock, David M.

1988

Allen, J. N., III

1954

Hanover, Paul E., Jr.

1991

Gonzalez, John C.

1955

Prieto, Brody L.

1994

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