Katy resident Stewart Lee was among the medalists from Alliance Fencing Academy that brought home medals in the largest fencing event in the U.S. Lee won a gold and bronze medal in two of the toughest events.

Lee earned a gold medal in the Senior Men’s Epee Team event where the Alliance Team beat out 67 other teams. Stewart also garnered an eighth-place medal in Junior Men’s Epee in one of the biggest events, competing against a whopping 462 fencers.

Lee joins 97 other students from local fencing club Alliance Fencing Academy who qualified to attend the championship. The group brought home 15 medals from the largest fencing tournament in the world this summer, more than any other club.

The USA Fencing Summer Nationals were held June 28 -July 7 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with over 6,100 fencers representing over 150 clubs and 18 countries competing.

Alliance Fencing Academy recently opened a new facility at 11555 Gaston Road in Katy, with 7,500 sq ft including 11 fencing strips. The club shares students and coaches with its other two locations in Houston and The Woodlands.

Twenty years ago, Alliance Fencing Academy had fewer than 10 members. Now the club has grown to more than 350 members with three locations in Houston, Katy, and The Woodlands. Alliance Fencing Academy was founded in 2004 by United States Olympic Coach Andrey Geva. Geva led Team USA’s Women’s Epee Team in the 2016 Olympics in Rio, an historic gold medal win at the 2018 World Championship in Wuxi, China, and led Team USA’s Women’s Epee Team in the 2020(1) Olympics in Tokyo.

Alliance Fencing Academy is a top producer of collegiate fencers, with over 100 students receiving athletic and academic scholarships to top US universities. These athletes compete on NCAA teams at Princeton, Columbia, UPenn, Harvard, Duke, Penn State, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Stanford, The Air Force Academy, and other universities.

Classes are available for students as young as five years old. Alliance Fencing also offers Homeschool and evening classes, adult classes, private lessons, training camps, birthday parties and Off Campus PE Credit for multiple local school districts. For more information, visit www.Alliance-Fencing-Academy.com.

About fencing

Fencing competitions are divided by gender, age and rating. Fencers earn ratings A-E (A being the highest) to U for unrated. Division 1 competitions are limited to top fencers who have an earned rating of A or B. Age-restricted events are limited by age, with events for youth: Y10, Y12, Y14 (i.e., Y10 for fencers

10 years old and younger), Cadet (17 years old and younger), Junior (21 years old and younger), Senior (fencers older than 20), and Veterans 40, 50, 60, 70.

In each event, fencers compete in pools of six to seven athletes, who fence one another in five-touch bouts. Based on their performance in pools, fencers advance to lengthier Direct Elimination bouts to ultimately determine the winner of the competition.