Head Coach - Tigran Shaginian
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Tigran ShaginianHead CoachTigran is a four-time Russian national champion. Tigran has been fencing since the age of 7. Winner of the European Championship (1981) in the team competition and several other international tournaments, he earned a place on the Soviet Union's Goodwill Games Pentathlon Team in 1984, proving him to be a top athlete in fencing, shooting, horse riding, running and swimming.
Tigran founded SWORDS in 1997. With over 40 years of competing and coaching experience, his students have competed on the USA Fencing Cadet, Junior and Veteran World Cup teams, taken Gold at the Junior Olympics, and earned many national titles. His students consistently rank in the top eight in the nation in Division 1, Junior, Cadet, and Y14. Tigran's students have gone on to fence at Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame, and the Air Force Academy, to name a few. |
Shown here with Mia Wu after taking Bronze in Cadet at Junior Olympics, 2019.
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Luis Dealba YountCoach, Burbank and PasadenaLuis started fencing at the age of 9. After medaling in several National competitions throughout his career, Luis moved on to sharing his expertise as a Coach at Swords Fencing Studio. Since working there, his students have risen to make several podium finishes at national and international competitions, as well as the national team.
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Our coaches and our students strive to train harder and be better. We are always learning and growing together. One of the purposes of this is to help our younger students get into and attend the top universities in the country, once they are ready of course. Fencing is not the only way but is one of the ways to attend some of the best Ivy, private, and public institutions in the nation. We are an Epee only club as we believe that focusing on one discipline helps to strengthen our club and fencers.
Our fencers have or are currently attending: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame, Stanford, Barnard, Penn State, Ohio State, St. John's, UC Berkeley, and UCSD.
They have also been accepted to : Princeton, Yale, Brown, McGill, UCLA, Pepperdine, UC Irvine, and many others.
Our fencers have or are currently attending: Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Notre Dame, Stanford, Barnard, Penn State, Ohio State, St. John's, UC Berkeley, and UCSD.
They have also been accepted to : Princeton, Yale, Brown, McGill, UCLA, Pepperdine, UC Irvine, and many others.
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