by Doug Nichols | Oct 24, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches F - J, Coaches U - Z, Craus, Polly, Faulkner, Ralph, Fencers, Fencers A - E, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Jan York, King, Harriet, Romary, Vince, Joseph |
Janice Lee York Romary was the US National Foil Champion ten times in a span of 18 years from the first win to the last. She represented the United States at the Olympic Games a then-record six times. She finished just off the medal stand twice, taking fourth in...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 17, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches, Coaches P - T, Fencers, Fencers K - O, Fencers P - T, Magay, Daniel, Piller, George, Shurtz, Skip, Tournaments |
The 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia comes up frequently around here. It was, after all, the tournament from which many Hungarian athletes made the difficult decision to not return to their country. The challenging notion of having to make such a fateful...
by Doug Nichols | Oct 10, 2016 | Blog Post, California, Fencers K - O, Marx, Michael, Massialas, Greg, National Tournament, Nonomura, George, Tournaments, Tournaments 1981 - 1990 |
I confess that it has been hard to sit down and find the wherewithal to come up with a story in the past weeks. Since the death of my first coach, Len Carnighan, it’s been frankly a challenge. For those of you who don’t know, we here at the West Coast Fencing...
by Doug Nichols | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog Post, Carnighan, Len, Coaches |
“Do you not know that a man is not dead if his name is still spoken?” – Terry Pratchett My first fencing coach, Len Carnighan, died a week ago today, September 11, 2016. I was in his first class at Cabrillo College in the fall of 1977. It was his first...
by Doug Nichols | Jul 11, 2016 | Blog Post, Coaches P - T, Piller, George |
I got a very nice phone call from Gerard Biagini this week. He is not digitally connected via the world wide web, but his daughter was kind enough to show him last week’s story that I wrote about my visit. Jerry called to thank me for posting the story. He was very...
