The 2024 Athena Project Summer Camp: Mentor & Mentee Announcement

The Athena Project is a grassroots initiative summer camp sponsored and organized by WFencing and Northwest Fencing Center. The initiative is designed to support athlete development while including leadership and professional development of women and girls as fencers, referees, and future coaches in the Olympic sport of fencing. WFencing celebrates women athletes in the 2024 Olympics and applauds the progress made on greater acknowledgement for women athletes for their strength and power on the international stage. The Athena Project seeks to continue this trend by supporting the development of women athletes as well as the expansion and sharing of knowledge through referee and coach development as well.

Supporting this growth of knowledge, strength and spirit, WFencing is pleased to announce the 2024 Mentors and Mentees committed to working with this year’s Athena Summer Camp, August 11-17, 2024, hosted by Northwest Fencing Center in Oregon. This year’s camp boasts 19 participants from all weapon disciplines, including Olympians, World Cup winners, Team USA members, NCAA current and former athletes, and females at the top of their game. These are the powerful women that our fencers will work with, learn from and grow with over the course of the camp in August and beyond.

Mentor	Hometown	Club Affiliation
Anna Angelova, OLY	Beaverton, OR	Oregon Fencing Alliance
Iman Blow	New York, NY	Peter Westbrook Foundation
LeeAnn Choy	Basking Ridge, NJ	Wanglei International Fencing Club
Adeline Chung-Feder	Brooklyn, NY	Piste Academy
Ioana Doltu	Bucharest, Romania	Northwest Fencing Center
Tasia Ford	Philadelphia, PA	Temple University
Madison Fournier	Hartsburg, MO	Enfield Fencing Club
Chloe Fox-Gottimier	Portland, OR	Oregon Fencing Alliance/Princeton
Sophie Gajowskyj	Portland, OR	PDX Fencing/Drew University
İpek İrem Ülkü	Bursa, Turkey	Tim Morehouse Fencing
Sonya Li	San Francisco, CA	Halberstadt Fencers' Club
Sandra Marchant	Prospect, CT	Rogue Fencing Club
Anne-Mai Melles	Talinn, Estonia & Philadelphia, PA	Temple University
Jennifer Oldham	Durham, NC &  Cleveland, OH	Cleveland State/Forge Fencing
Anna Quinn	Portland, OR	Northwest Fencing Center/Cleveland State University
Cathleen Randall	Durham, NC	Forge Fencing
Jennifer Salmon	Mt. Sinai, NY & Philadelphia, PA	Temple University/Mission Fencing
Ola Shelton, OLY	Benton, AR
Ceili Widmann	Ashland, OR	Michigan State University Fencing Club

(*OLY denotes former Olympic team member)

WFencing would like to acknowledge the sponsors who helped make this camp possible: Halberstadt Fencers' Club, Michigan State University Fencing Club, Forge Fencing Teams, and Tim Morehouse Fencing.

For more information regarding the Athena Project contact Northwest Fencing Center or WFencing.

·        Northwest Fencing Center: Michael McTigue <michael@nwfencing.org>

·        WFencing: info@wfencing.org

To register for the camp as an athlete: https://www.nwfencing.org/athena-summer-camp/