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Current Leadership

 

Stephen Parkin:

Stephen Parkin is currently the Head Instructor of the club and is in charge of instruction in foil and saber. He is a senior who has been with the Fencing Club for four years. Before this year, he also served as the President of the club for a year and a half and the Treasurer and Congress Contact for a year. Stephen has received all three stars in the club ranking system.

                    email: parkinsm (at) whitman.edu

Nicholas Holce:

Nicholas, a senior at Whitman College, has been fencing since his sophomore year.  First taught the basics of foil by Jeff Hutchinson, Nicholas later learned epee, rapier, long sword, and dagger drills his junior year under Will Patillo.

During his junior year, Nicholas served as Fencing Club’s Key Bearer, ASWC representative at the monthly House of Clubs meetings, and budget representative.   Nicholas and Will attended the 4W event in Seattle - a biannual event that hosts many of the most renowned maestros in the United States - during which time he learned some French small sword and baroque sword from Maestro Jeanette Acosta-Ramirez and Mr. Tom Leoni, respectively.

 Senior year, Nicholas was voted club President, and he also co-instructs Fencing Club with Stephen Parkin.

 Nicholas’s motto is, “Wait, I have a motto?”

               email: holcena (at) whitman.edu

Kayla Hegedus:

Kayla began fencing in the fall, and is now the Webmaster for the club.

               email: hegedukm (at) whitman.edu

 

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