Tag Archives: Columbia fencing
Bruce Soriano
Bruce Soriano (Fencing. Born, Newark, NJ, April 30, 1950.) Perhaps the most dominating man in his weapon ever in the N.C.A.A. fencing championships, Columbia’s Bruce Soriano became the first fencer in tournament history to win the national title three straight years in any weapon. Soriano captured the sabre championship in 1970, 1971, and 1972, moving through […]
Graeme Hammond
Graeme Hammond (Executive. Born, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 1, 1858; died, New York, NY, Oct. 30, 1944.) A standout athlete at Columbia (1875-78), Graeme Hammond later became a national fencing champion and one of America’s leading amateur athletics executives. Hammond ran track, rowed crew, and played football at Columbia, winning the I.C.4A. quarter-mile and half-mile in […]
Katy Bilodeaux
Katy Bilodeaux (Fencing. Born, Boston, MA, March 17, 1965.) Doubtless the finest woman fencer ever from a metropolitan area college, Caitlin Bilodeaux came to Columbia from a Concord, Mass., family of athletes and began fencing at age nine. Bilodeaux became the first woman ever to win the national collegiate championship twice (1985 and 1987) at […]
Hugh Alessandroni
Hugh Alessandroni (Fencing. Born, New York, NY, Jan. 15, 1908; died, Little Silver, NJ, Mar. 30, 1989.) A bronze medalist at the 1932 Olympiad, Hugh Vincent Alessandroni was the top American foil fencer of the 1930s. Also a member of the U.S. team at Berlin in 1936, Alessandroni fenced at Columbia but really came into […]
