DC Fencers Club offers a grand salute to Kat Holmes and Hadley Husisian, who join the full roster of 20 fencers to represent the United States at the #paris2024 #Olympics this summer. Both are affiliated with DCFC. We watched Kat and Hadley grow up and are thrilled to see them advance to the Olympic stage. […]
Watch Team USA members, including Capitol Division’s Kat Holmes, go for gold at the Toyko Olympics. Fencing is one of the original sports of the modern Olympics, which were founded by Pierre de Coubertin, himself a fencer! DCFC wishes all our fencers and athletes the very best. Go Team USA! https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/sports/fencing/
Congratulations to Kat Holmes on qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics with her top 32 spot at the Kazan Senior Epee World Cup in Russia. Kat secured both her individual and team event tickets to Tokyo with the result, joining Courtney Hurley, Kelley Hurley, and Anna van Brummen as Team USA’s Women’s Epee squad. Brava! We […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: DC Fencers Club, Bowie fencer and Team USA make history and win gold at World Championships in China WASHINGTON, July 25, 2018 – Today, Amanda Sirico of Bowie, Maryland, and Team USA made history, winning the World Championship title in Women’s Team Epee at the World Fencing Championships in Wuxi, […]
A huge thank you to Olympian Kat Holmes for sharing her insights on the physical, mental, and emotional game of fencing at the elite level. Kat shared her knowledge at a clinic hosted by Friends of DCFC. We are pretty sure she left more than one young person with world-class fencing dreams and inspirations.
Congratulations to Alex Massialas, who today won silver in the Men’s Foil individual event at the Rio Olympics. Massialas’ silver ends a 32-year medal drought for U.S. men’s fencing. The last time the United States won a men’s fencing medal of any kind was when Peter Westbrook took home bronze at the 1984 Games. The […]
Are you inspired by fencing at the Rio Olympics? Give it a try this fall! DC Fencers Club offers fencing classes for youth and adults starting this September (intermediate classes) and October (beginner classes). Classes are offered on a rolling, monthly basis. Register online at www.dcfencing.com/weekly-class-schedule/ Questions? Email us at or stop by the […]
In case you missed it, DCFC member Amanda Sirico made front page news in The Bowie Blade-News last week. Thanks to reporter John McNamara for his thoughtful story on Amanda’s quest to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics. Read more here.
