Big Red
Coed Fencing Camps 2008

For boys and girls age 12-18

July 25-29

July 30-August 3

The fencing camps feature 13 instructional and sparring sessions over the five days of camp. All sessions are held in the Andrew P. Stifel Fencing Salle in Bartels Hall on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. Campers are coached by Cornell's head fencing coach Iryna Dolgikh and assistant coach Olena Gutor. Cornell varsity fencers will serve as camp counselors and assist during sessions.

Resident camp includes lodging in a university residence hall and meals in one of our award winning dining halls. All campers receive a FREE camp t-shirt.

NOTE: Campers who attend BOTH fencing camps will receive a $100 discount off combined camp prices. In addition, the stay-over fees for July 24 will be waived. The total savings is $160.

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FEATURING ONE OF THE FINEST
COACHING STAFFS IN THE COUNTRY

Iryna Dolgikh Cornell University Women's Head Fencing Coach Iryna Dolgikh, a world champion fencer and most recently an assistant coach at Penn State, was named the head fencing coach at Cornell University in June 2005.The second-year Big Red head coach came to Cornell with a reputation as one of the top fencing minds in the country and proved to be in her first

season working with her team. Cornell's improvement was evident from day one. Her squad finished 14th as a team at the NCAA championship meet despite fielding only a woman's team (the NCAA fencing championship is scored as a dual men's and women's event). She helped both Meghan Phair '06 and Alexandra Heiss '09 finish in the top 20 at the meet. Cornell finished fifth as a team at the IFA championships, an improvement over a 10th-place finish at the event the year before Dolgikh arrived. The biggest monkey off the team's back was also lifted, as it earned its first Ivy League win in 14 years (a span of 65 league matches) when it defeated Brown in Newman Arena as host of the first-ever Ivy League championship.

A native of Kiev, Dolgikh brings a long line of credentials and plenty of coaching and fencing experience into her first collegiate head coaching job. Dolgikh was the World Champion in women's foil in 1976, a gold medalist in the World Cup in 1977 and a bronze medalist in the USSR Spartakiad in 1975. Dolgikh was a member of the Soviet Union's Junior World Team in the mid-1970s. She is a 1982 graduate of the Kiev Institute of Physical Culture.

Prior to Cornell, Dolgikh spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Penn State, helping the Nittany Lions to a pair of national runner-up finishes and a fourth-place finish at the 2004-05 NCAA championships. In 2003, her epee fencers swept the top three places at the NCAA championships.

Prior to arriving at Penn State, Dolgikh spent two years as a private coach in Dallas, Texas. She was a prominent coach and competitor in Russia and brings more than 20 years of teaching experience in the Ukraine, Moscow and Bratislava and the United States.

	Paul Pesthy US National Fencing Team Coach Paul Pesthy brings with him over 32 years of coaching experience, along with five decades of competition experience. Pesthy was an assistant coach for the USMPA, where he also served in that role from 1986-88. In addition, Pesthy was also the head coach at SUNY-Binghamton from 1969-72.
His competition resume is impressive, winning the NCAA Championship in 1964 and 1965, and placing third in 1966. Pesthy was a member of the United States’ 1964 Olympic silver medal team, and captured individual epee national championships in 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1983.

Yakov Danilenko

Danilenko, a full time fencing coach with a Master's Degree in P.E. was declared a Master of Sports of the USSR in fencing, the highest classification for a coach in the former USSR. He is a founder of the Medeo Fencing Club and has been a full time fencing coach for 25 years. Yakov has over 34 years of fencing experience and has coached many champions in Europe, the USSR and in America.

Andrei Lamianski

Andrei Lamianski has 26 years of fencing experience and has coached champions at the Eurpoean Junior Fencing Cup, the World Junior Fencing Cup, the championship of the World Junior Fencing Cup and Champions of Belarus.

Anna Dmitrenko

A two time world champion, and five time USSR champion in foil, Dmitrenko has 21 years of fencing experience as a national team coach in her native Ukraine. During her tenure as a national team coach, Anna has developed numerous national and international champions.

Rachel Covault

Ten years of competitive fencing experience, 2004 gold medalist at the Midwest Sectionals in foil.

Olena Gutor

Olena became an assistant fencing coach for Cornell in 2005. She graduated from Penn State in 2005. She has worked at numerous fencing and volleyball summmer camps in Pennsylvania, New York and North Carolina. She fenced for two years in the fencing club at Penn State and specializes in the foil.

Cornell varsity fencers will serve as camp counselors/coaches.

Schedule
Registration will be held on the ground floor of Robert Purcell Community Center on the first day of camp. A camper orientation will be held following check in, after which camp counselors will take campers to the first instructional session. Refer to the appropriate camp itineraries (above) for exact times.

Facilities
All sessions are held in the Andrew P. Stifel Fencing Salle in Bartels Hall on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York. Campers eat in world class dining halls, and have access to recreational athletic fields, outdoor basketball courts and a billiards/game room.  Cornell also boasts the Friedman strength and conditioning center, swimming pools and a full-time training staff.

What to Bring
Full electrical equipment and plenty of practice clothes. All campers need to bring alarm clock, pillow, blanket, sheets, towels, swimsuit, and water bottle.

Transportation
We will pick up campers at the Ithaca Airport or bus station. You MUST contact us in writing, with arrival mode, date and time, three weeks prior to camp. There is a $20 round trip fee for this service. Sorry, we do not offer pick up from the Syracuse or Binghamton airports.

You can request more information from the Cornell Summer Sports School by phone at: