St. John's Red Storm fencing represents the St. John's University in collegiate fencing. The Red Storm compete as an independent school of NCAA Division I.
Olympians The following St. John's players and coaches have represented their country in fencing in the Summer Olympic Games: Year Player/Coach Country Location Event 2000 Yury Gelman Sydney Saber coach 2004 Athens Saber coach 2008 Beijing Saber coach 2012 London Saber coach 2016 Rio Saber coach 2024 Paris Saber coach 2012 Daryl Homer London 6th Place Men's Individual Saber 2016 Rio Men's Individual Saber 2020 Tokyo 23rd Place Men's Individual Saber 2004 Ivan Lee Athens 12th Place Men's Individual Saber 2000 Keeth Smart Sydney 30th Place Men's Individual Saber 2004 Athens 15th Place Men's Individual Saber 2008 Beijing 6th Place Men's Individual Saber Men's Team Saber 2020 Curtis McDowald Tokyo 24th Place Men's Individual Epee 2000 Arlene Stevens Sydney 32nd Place Women's Individual Epee 2004 Jonathan Tiomkin Athens 30th Place Men's Individual Foil 2008 Dagmara Wozniak Beijing Women's Individual Saber 2012 London 8th Place Women's Individual Saber 2016 Rio 24th Place Women's Individual Saber Women's Team Saber 2020 Tokyo 25th Place Women's Individual Saber
Individual championships St. John's has won 27 individual national championships between the men's and women's teams.
Individual ChampionsWomen's FoilWomen's ÉpéeWomen's Sabre Erzsebet Garay (2006) Monika Golebiewski (2008) Evgeniya Kirpicheva (2012) Tina Loven (1995) Nicole Dygert (1996) Emese Takacs (2001) Isis Washington (2015)Karolina Cieślar (2019)Men's FoilMen's ÉpéeMen's Sabre Andras Nemeth (2017) Jan Jurkiewicz (2023) George Hentea (1998) Alex Roylblat (1999) Arpad Horvath (2002, 2004) Marat Israelian (2010, 2011) Yevgeniy Karyuchenko (2014) Cooper Schumacher (2017) Andre Deladrier (1942) Keeth Smart (1997, 1999) Ivan Lee (2001, 2002) Sergey Isayenko (2005) Daryl Homer (2010, 2011) Darii Lukashenko (2025)
Year-by-year results Men's Fencing + St. John's Men's Fencing Results by Season Year Conference Head coach Overall Record Pct. NCAA Championship 1994-1995 Independent Yury Gelman NCAA Runner-Up 1995-1996 Independent Yury Gelman 3rd Place 1996-1997 Independent Yury Gelman 3rd Place 1997-1998 Independent Yury Gelman 5th Place 1998-1999 Independent Yury Gelman 5th Place 1999-2000 Independent Yury Gelman NCAA Runner-Up 2000-2001 Independent Yury Gelman NCAA Champion 2001-2002 Independent Yury Gelman NCAA Runner-Up 2002-2003 Independent Yury Gelman 3rd Place 2003-2004 Independent Yury Gelman 4th Place 2004-2005 Independent Yury Gelman 9–2 () 3rd Place 2005-2006 Independent Yury Gelman – () 6th Place 2006-2007 Independent Yury Gelman – () NCAA Runner-Up 2007-2008 Independent Yury Gelman – () 5th Place 2008-2009 Independent Yury Gelman – () 6th Place 2009-2010 Independent Yury Gelman 11–5 () NCAA Runner-Up 2010-2011 Independent Yury Gelman 16–2 () 3rd Place 2011-2012 Independent Yury Gelman 15–4 () 4th Place 2012-2013 Independent Yury Gelman 13–6 () 5th Place 2013-2014 Independent Yury Gelman 12–7 () 3rd Place 2014-2015 Independent Yury Gelman 14–5 () 6th Place 2015-2016 Independent Yury Gelman 9–1 () 4th Place 2016-2017 Independent Yury Gelman 11–8 () 6th Place 2017-2018 Independent Yury Gelman 12–9 () 6th Place 2018-2019 Independent Yury Gelman 8–8 () 5th Place 2019-2020 Independent Yury Gelman 16–3 () Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic 2020-2021 Independent Yury Gelman 7–2 () 5th Place 2021-2022 Independent Yury Gelman 9–8 () 7th Place 2022-2023 Independent Yury Gelman 12–12 () 7th Place 2023-2024 Independent Yury Gelman 12–13 () 7th Place 2024-2025 Independent Yury Gelman 15–6 () 5th Place 2025-2026 Independent Yury Gelman 17–4 () 3rd Place
Women's Fencing Year Wins Losses Pct. NCAA Tournament 2004-2005 8 3 () 3rd 2005-2006 () 6th 2006-2007 () 2nd 2007-2008 () 5th 2008-2009 () 6th 2009-2010 () 2nd 2010-2011 () 3rd 2011-2012 () 4th 2012-2013 () 5th 2013-2014 () 3rd 2014-2015 () 6th 2015-2016 () 4th 2016-2017 () 6th 2017-2018 () 6th 2018-2019 () 5th 2019-2020 Cancelled due Covid-19 2020-2021 3 7 () 5th 2021-2022 3 14 () 7th 2022-2023 7 18 () 7th 2023-2024 17 8 () 7th 2024-2025 11 10 () 5th 2025-2026 10 11 () 14th
Coaches Yury Gelman (born 1955), Ukrainian-born American 7-time Olympic fencing coach Sergey Danilov (born 1981), Russian-born American Olympic fencing coach
References
https://redstormsports.com/sports/2018/6/12/sports-c-fenc-archive-stjo-c-fenc-archive-html.aspx