When he was a senior at UC Irvine in 1987, Eric Holmgren was in search of a new endeavor. Strolling through campus one afternoon, he came across a flier promoting the school’s fencing club. Although ...

NEW YORK -- Tim Gunn sits on a bench in a long room that was once the cafeteria of a Manhattan school. Pairs of high-school-aged fencers face off on narrow strips, lunging at each other with sabers.

One-time Olympic medalist Miles Chamley-Watson found his calling at a young age when he was introduced to fencing. For Chamley-Watson, helping fellow outsiders find their place within this ...

DURING THE technical portion of fencing class, when we learned to thrust and parry, Annie was sweet and friendly, someone I could commiserate with about learning the moves. But once her mask was on ...