Follow Tim Morehouse Fencing Club Olympians (And, The 7 Best Resources for Following Fencing at the Paris Olympics)

Tim Morehouse Fencing Club is proud to announce that six of our club members are competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics! As the excitement builds, here’s how you can follow the action and support our athletes without missing a moment.

Meet Our Paris Olympians:

• Ziad Elsissy (Saber) - Team Egypt

• Eli Dershwitz (Saber) - Team USA

• Amer Mohammad (Saber) - Team USA

• Sabrina Fang (Foil) - Team Canada

• Mohammad Essam (Foil) - Team Egypt

• Filip Dolgeiwicz (Saber) - Team USA

How to Watch and Follow the Action:

Given our Olympians are representing different teams and countries, tracking all their matches can be a bit challenging. Here are some excellent resources to keep you updated:

1. Peacock TV: For comprehensive coverage in the United States, you can stream all fencing events live. Authenticate with your cable subscription to access the streams at NBCOlympics.com.

2. NBCOlympics.com:This streaming service will provide live coverage of every Olympic event, including fencing. You will still need to subscribe and log in at Peacock TV to watch.

3. Olympics.com: The official Olympics website offers detailed schedules and live streaming options for all events. Follow the fencing events on their fencing page.

Men’s Saber kicks things of tomorrow…here is the schedule for the first round and following rounds!

Fencing Schedule for Men’s Saber

Round of 32: (4:30am-8:30am EST)

• Ziad Elsissy 6:30am

• Colin Heathcock 6:30am

• Mitchell Saron 6:45am

• Amer Mohammad 7:20am

• Eli Dershwitz- 7:45am

The Round of 16: 9am-10:15am
Round of 8: (10:15am-11:15am)
Round of 4: 1:50pm-Start
Bronze Medal: 3:05pm
Gold Medal: 3:55pm

WHERE TO WATCH:
Team USA matches should be on the Peacock Network but …

Watching all the matches for athletes not on Team USA you should utilize the NBC Olympics Stream: (CLLICK HERE):
(Either one will require a paid membership to Peacock.)

Day 1 of Fencing (July 27, 2024)
Men’s Saber Individual Bracket (Click Here)

Good luck to our champions!

7 Great Resources for Following Fencing at the Paris Olympics

To follow the fencing matches at the 2024 Paris Olympics, you have several great options:

1. Cyrus of Chaos (Facebook/Youtube/Instagram): Cyrus of Chaos is one of the best resources for the sport of fencing. He always has a great eye for the practical things you need to watch and enjoy fencing. He has posted great brackets and overviews of the competition. Start with his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CyrusofChaos

   (The only problem I have with Mr. Chaos is he picked Ziad to lose in the first round. Sorry bro. Ziad all the way!)

2. NBC and Peacock (United States): NBC will provide extensive coverage of the fencing events, available both live and on-demand. You can watch fencing on the USA Network, CNBC, and E!. For streaming, subscribe to Peacock or authenticate with your cable subscription on NBCOlympics.com or the NBC Sports app​ (NBC Olympics)​.

3. Olympics.com (Global): The official Olympics website offers detailed schedules and streaming options for all events. You can find the full fencing schedule and live streams on their dedicated fencing page​ (Paris 2024 Olympics)​.

4. Tech Radar: (TechRadar)​​ : a great website for finding free streaming links from many places in the world

5. NBCOlympics.com: This website offers live streaming of all Olympic events, including fencing. You can authenticate with your cable subscription to access the live streams. Visit NBCOlympics.com for comprehensive coverage​ (NBC Olympics)​​ (NBC Sports)​.

6. GOOGLE! If you just Google “Paris Olympics 2024 Fencing Schedule” you get an easy to use breakdown of the event son each day and timings. (Image pasted below!)

7. Wikipedia: Below is an image of the brackets they created. Very clear and straight forward!

Let’s go Team USA and Tim Morehouse Fencing Club Olympians!

Italian Fencing Master Sara Vicenzin is Joining the Tim Morehouse Fencing Club Coaching Staff!

We are very excited to announce the newest addition to the Tim Morehouse Fencing Club elite coaching staff! Please welcome coach Sara Vicenzin who will be joining TMFC at the conclusion of the 2020 Olympics!

Coach Vicenzin has been an international leader in the sport of fencing for over two decades. As an athlete, Sara was first division ranked on the Italian Women’s Saber National Ranking in both 1999 and 2000, winning two Bronze Medals at the Women’s Saber Italian Championship and earning a spot on the Italian National Team.

As a coach and trainer to some of the world’s most elite fencers, Sara has held positions including Head Coach at Gemina Scherma fencing club, Coach for the Italian National Team, and Coach for the Italian Fencing Federation. She has also served as a trainer for the Venezuelan Saber National Team, the Croatian Saber National Team, and the Japanese Saber National Team.

Sara’s students have gone on to earn Gold and Silver Medals at the South American Games, Gold and Silver Medals at the Junior World Championships, and more than 50 medals at the Italian Championships.

Sara starts coaching at Tim Morehouse Fencing Club in August, 2020 after the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at our Elite Sleep Away Camp in Boston, MA August 8-16. She will be based at our Manhattan location.

Email info@timmorehousefencing.com to book lessons for Fall 2020 with her!

EVERY BOUT EVER FENCED BY TIM MOREHOUSE FENCING CLUB STUDENTS (And, How They've Done)

All the bouts fenced, win-loss and event entry totals by TMFC student’s since the club opened in December, 2015 until May, 12, 2019.

The above graphic is a summary of almost every bout ever fenced by anyone ever representing Tim Morehouse Fencing Club since we first opened our first club in Manhattan in December, 2015.

I started out thinking about this solely as a tournament’s article but it also got me thinking about the financial impact our club has had on the sport with so many new members that are competing.

SOME TAKEAWAYS:

• 2931 Tournament Entries: If an athlete spends an average of $60 per tournament entry fee, it means TMFC families collectively have spent over 175,000 on entry fees over the past 4 seasons and $85,000 this season alone.

• Do # Competitors and Results Correlate? The increase in entries did correlate to an increase in medal results. This season TMFC won the SYC medal count for the first time (Top 55 Competitive Saber Clubs 2018-2019). However, I don’t necessarily think the # of entries will necessarily mean better results. Our pool and DE % has remained relatively the same as the number of entries has increased.

• WIN-LOSS %: Has held relatively steady even with the increase in competitors which for us has come from new fencers taking their first competitive steps. Our “more experienced” fencers improved their results while new fencers are taking their first steps of winning 1-3 pool bouts in their first 10 tournaments.

• The Pool win-loss % and DE win-loss % are relatively similar for the club overall.

• Next steps for me are to break down the win-loss record and % by age category, # of years competing and we also look at things by coach within these sub-group

Broken down by Pool and DE Record.

WHAT RESULTS ARE INCLUDED
The data includes every local tournament, regional, national and international tournament that our fencers have fenced in over the past four years. The results do not include NCAA fencing results.

The results are only from tournaments where student’s were representing TMFC.

SOME BACKGROUND:
My professional background included four years on staff at Teach For America where data-driven was a way of a life. Everything that was a key metric for success had to be measured and analyzed. All goals had to be measurable, progress was tracked and any conversation about next steps and improvement was grounded in what the data was telling us. I saw amazing results and progress when this was done well with teachers and students.

For someone like myself who was training for the Olympics, being at an organization with clear and measurable goals helped me to thrive and I always felt a key thing missing from my own Olympic fencing career was the type of powerful data that could help me make better decisions on the strip and off.

So, Tim Morehouse Fencing Club’s ingredients are a mix of our coaches fencing knowledge, a data-driven teaching pedagogy and a values driven approach to the lessons we teach and how they could impact students beyond the fencing strip.

Welcome To MORE-HOUSE!