Tim Morehouse Fencing Club Leads Nationally With 21 Fencers Named to The Absolute Fencing Gear All-Academic Team

New York, NY (August 20, 2021) — Tim Morehouse Fencing Club is proud to be not only one of the top fencing clubs in the country but the top club in producing scholar-athletes. 

Twenty TMFC fencers have been named to USA Fencing’s All-Academic First Team. An additional fencer has been named to the Second Team. 

The All-Academic First Team scholar-athletes earned a GPA of 3.85 or better. Second Team scholar-athletes are composed of fencers with a GPA between 3.4 and 3.84.

More than 250 clubs had at least one All-Academic Team member. Tim Morehouse Fencing Club tied with the Beverly Hills Fencers’ Club with the most fencers making the top cut. This group of high achievers are part of the biggest class in the history of the Absolute Fencing Gear All-Academic Team with almost 1,000 high school fencers honored.

Congratulations to the scholar-athletes, including: 

First Team Members

• Adele Bois, Saber, Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY

• Matthew Breier, Foil, Hopkins School, Woodbridge, CT

• Chelsea Delsoin, Saber, Saint Dominic Academy, Jersey City, NJ

• Sabrina Fang, Foil, Rye Country Day School, Greenwich, CT

• Madison Four-Garcia, Saber, Horace Mann School, Union City, NJ

• Nowell Gibson, Epée, Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY

• Peter Hammer, Saber, North Broward Preparatory, Weston, FL, will attend Carnegie Mellon University

• Grace Hicks, Epée, Ursuline School, Yonkers NY

• Scotland Jenkins, Saber, Rye High School, Rye, NY

• Olive Lee, Epée, Academy of Holy Angels, Teaneck, NJ

• Bethany Lee, Foil, Bronxville High School, Bronxville, NY

• Alen Matsui, Saber, Rye Country Day School, New York, NY

• Katie McGillion-Moore, Foil, Staples High School, Westport, CT

• William Morrill, Saber, High School for Math, Science & Engineering, New York, NY

• Justin Morrill, Saber, Stuyvesant High School, New York NY

• Fiona Neibart, Saber, Marymount School, New York, NY

• Harini Thiruvengadam, Foil, Hopkins School, Milford, CT

• Gerald Wang, Foil, Edgemont High School, Scarsdale, NY

• Alina Zhang, Foil, Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale NY

• Henry Zhang, Foil, Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, NY

Second Team Member

• David Pavlenishvili, Epée, Byram Hills High School, Armonk, NY

About Tim Morehouse Fencing Club

Tim Morehouse Fencing Club (TMFC) was founded by Olympic silver medalist Tim Morehouse. The club provides training to athletes in New York City (since 2015), Westchester (since 2017), and Connecticut (since Aug 2021) in foil, épée, and saber. TMFC was ranked the number one club in the country for High School All Americans 2020-2021 and was ranked the top Youth Fencing Club in the country for the past two years based on the total number of medals won. www.timmorehousefencing.com