USA Fencing

(Colorado Springs, Colo.) – After winning a record-setting 68 medals at the 2014 Pan American Youth and Veteran Championships, Team USA will take on the region again beginning on Tuesday and continuing through Saturday in Lima, Peru.

For athletes in the Veteran 1 (50-59) and Veteran 2 (60+), the five-day tournament will serve as the final tuneup for the Veteran World Championships which will be held from Oct. 20-25 in Limoges, France.

In addition to the veteran events, competition also will be held for Pre-Veteran (40-49), Youth A (Y10) and Youth B (Y14) athletes.

Team USA includes three defending gold medalists from the 2014 Pan Am Veteran Championships.

The reigning Pan Am Veteran Champion in the Veteran 2 women’s foil event, 2014 Veteran World Team member Lynnette Whitt (Owings, Md.), will be back in action, but Whitt’s toughest challenger is expected to be teammate Anne-Marie Walters (Parkland, Fla.) – a five-time individual Veteran World medalist who will fence in both the Veteran 2 foil and epee events.

Four-time Veteran World Team member Charles Alexander (Escondido, Calif.) is returning to the Pan Ams to defend his Veteran 2 men’s epee title after leading the Americans to a sweep of the podium in the event last year.

Gladys Berardi (Long Valley, N.Y.) won gold in the Pre-Veteran women’s saber competition last year and gook bronze in the Veteran 1 saber event. This year, 59-year-old Berardi will fence in the Veteran 2 events for epee, foil and saber.

Competition schedule is as follows:

Tuesday, Aug. 4
Youth A Men’s Epee
Youth B Women’s Saber
Veteran 1 Men’s Saber
Veteran 2 Women’s Foil
Pre-Veteran Men’s Foil
Pre-Veteran Women’s Epee

Wednesday, Aug. 5
Youth A Women’s Foil
Youth B Men’s Epee
Pre-Veteran Men’s Saber
Pre-Veteran Women’s Foil
Veteran 1 Women’s Foil
Veteran 2 Men’s Saber

Thursday, Aug. 6
Youth A Men’s Saber
Youth B Women’s Foil
Veteran 1 Men’s Foil
Veteran 2 Men’s Epee
Veteran 1 Women’s Saber
Veteran 2 Women’s Epee

Friday, Aug. 7
Youth A Women’s Epee
Youth B Men’s Saber
Pre-Veteran Men’s Epee
Pre-Veteran Women’s Saber
Youth A Women’s Saber
Youth B Men’s Foil

Saturday, Aug. 8
Youth A Men’s Foil
Youth B Women’s Epee
Veteran 1 Men’s Epee
Veteran 2 Women’s Saber
Veteran 2 Men’s Foil
Veteran 1 Women’s Epee

The complete athlete roster is as follows:

Pre-Veteran Women’s Saber
Kelly Dewsnup (Provo, Utah)

Pre-Veteran Men’s Foil
Rolando Balboa (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
David Harmon (Milton, Ga.)

Pre-Veteran Women’s Foil
Pamela Dressel (Mount Airy, Md.)

Pre-Veteran Men’s Epee
Creston Bailey (Escondido, Calif.)

Pre-Veteran Women’s Epee
Claudine Barjak (San Antonio, Texas)
Michele Chimienti (Temple City, Calif.)

Veteran 1 Men’s Saber
Tamas Vidovszky (Folsom, Calif.)
Vincent Paragano (Bernardsville, N.J.)
Ray Blair (Naples, Fla.)

Veteran 1 Women’s Saber
Monisha Tasker (Weston, Mass.)
Esperanza Alzona (Frederick, Md.)

Veteran 1 Men’s Foil
Greer McMullen (Atlanta, Ga.)
Tamas Vidovszky (Folsom, Calif.)
Stephen Gross (Fairfax, Va.)
David Drake (San Diego, Calif.)
Ray Blair (Naples, Fla.)

Veteran 1 Women’s Foil
Kathleen Hermes (Guilford, Conn.)
Esperanza Alzona (Frederick, Md.)
Monisha Tasker (Weston, Mass.)

Veteran 1 Men’s Epee
Timothy Gillham (Madison, Wis.)
Greer McMullen (Atlanta, Ga.)

Veteran 1 Women’s Epee
Rosanna Lacarra (Carlsbad, Calif.)
Monisha Tasker (Weston, Mass.)

Veteran 2 Men’s Saber
Keith Baker (Mc Lean, Va.)
William Carson (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Richard Brown (Watchung, N.J.)

Veteran 2 Women’s Saber
Gladys Berardi (Long Valley, N.J.)
Karen Brynildsen (Denville, N.J.)
S.S. Rachel El-Saleh (Houston, Texas)

Veteran 2 Men’s Foil
Alan Buchwald (San Carlos, Calif.)
Ron Daugherty (Saint Louis, Mo.)

Veteran 2 Women’s Foil
Anne-Marie Walters (Parkland, Fla.)
Lynnette Whitt (Owings, Md.)
Nora Gutkovskaya (Fair Lawn, N.J.)
Gladys Berardi (Long Valley, N.J.)
S.S. Rachel El-Saleh (Houston, Texas)

Veteran 2 Men’s Epee
Charles Alexander (Escondido, Claif.)

Veteran 2 Women’s Epee
Anne-Marie Walters (Parkland, Fla.)
S.S. Rachel El-Saleh (Houston, Texas)
Gladys Berardi (Long Valley, N.J.)
Karen Brynildsen (Denville, N.J.)

Youth A Men’s Saber
Colin Heathcock (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Ian Greenbaum (Atlanta, Ga.)

Youth A Women’s Saber
Lola Possick (Weehawken, N.J.)

Youth A Men’s Foil
Logan Gatza (Sanford, Fla.)

Youth A Men’s Epee
Logan Gatza (Sanford, Fla.)

Youth A Women’s Epee
Yasmine Khamis (McKinney, Texas)
Jasmine Adolphe (Leesburg, Va.)

Youth B Men’s Saber
Robert Vidovszky (Folsom, Calif.)
Maxwell Greenbaum (Atlanta, Ga.)
Antonio Heathcock (Palo Alto, Calif.)
Leighton Priest (Pontiac, Mich.)
Sachin Mehta (Golden, Colo.)

Youth B Women’s Saber
Natalie Cashman (Prairie Village, Kans.)

Youth B Men’s Foil
Lucas Lutar (Brewster, N.Y.)
Christopher Davis (Harleysville, Pa.)
Pablo Giraldo (Winter Park, Fla.)

Youth B Women’s Foil
Amanda Pirkowski (Longwood, Fla.)

Youth B Men’s Epee
Benjamin Adolphe (Leesburg, Va.)
Ethan Kushnerik (Brooklyn, N.Y.)

Youth B Women’s Epee
Amanda Pirkowski (Longwood, Fla.)