Coach Info

Andy Ma was named Young Family Head Coach of Fencing for both the men's and women's programs prior to the 2009-10 season. The three-time Ivy League Men's Fencing Coach of the Year led the men's team to three-consecutive conference championships in 2016, 2017, and 2018. He also oversaw the Quakers qualify a school-record 11 student-athletes (men and women) for the 2017 NCAA Championships.

Ma's charges have also succeeded on the international level, as three fencers participated in the 2010 World Championships. Freshman Evan Prochniak had the most impressive performance of the three, earning a bronze medal with the United States in the team sabre competition.

Ma brings his own level of success to Penn after spending the last 15 years as President and Head Fencing Coach at the Fencing Academy of South Jersey in Cherry Hill. During Ma's tenure, the program has trained eight US National Fencing Team members, five in saber, three in foil, six national champions and one world champion. Seven of his South Jersey fencers have competed at the University of Pennsylvania, and 20 have gone on to Ivy League fencing programs.

Since 1997, Ma has also produced more than 200 medalists in United States Fencing Association (USFA) national and NAC competitions, World Cup competitions, and World Championships.

Internationally, Ma coached the United States Cadet Saber team from 2003 to 2008, and in both 2005 and 2008 he was selected Coach of the Year by the U.S. Olympic Committee. President of the USFA's South Jersey Division, he is a certified USFA fencing director and earned the highest competitive rating of "A" by the USFA in Saber in 1992.

In addition to his work at the Fencing Academy, Ma served two stints as Micahnik's assistant coach at Penn, the first from 1994-96, and the second from 2005-06.

During his first stint, Penn won the Ivy League Women's Team Championship twice, in 1994 and 1995, as he trained a first-team men's saber All-America and a second-team men's foil All-America.

Ma was also an assistant coach at Ohio State University from 1989-91, helping the Buckeyes win the Men's and Women's Big Ten titles in 1990-91, and from 1985-88 he was fencing coach at the Beijing (China) Sports University where he helped develop China's junior national saber champion who later competed at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain.

As a competitor, Ma was a two-time National Saber champion of the Chinese Fencing Association (1985, 1988) and a two-time Chinese Intercollegiate Saber champion (1983, 1985). He also won Ohio's saber title during his stint at OSU.

Ma holds B.A. degrees in Fencing and Physical Education from the Beijing (China) Sports University, as well as an Educational Psychology degree from the Beijing (China) Teachers University. He also has a master's in Sports Psychology from Ohio State.

Fencing School Name11:

University of Pennsylvania

NCAA Team:

Mens, Womens

NCAA Division:

Division 1

Head Coach:

Andy Ma

Épée Coach:

Slava Danilov/Randall LeMaster

Foil Coach:

Andy Ma/Slava Danilov/Randall LeMaster

Saber Coach:

Andy Ma/Randall LeMaster

Other:

University of Pennsylvania Sports Performance Staff

Department Email:

andyma@upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-6116

Department Address:

fencing@pobox.upenn.edu

Men's Fencing Dept Website:

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Women's Fencing Dept Website:

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School Info:

Established in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, the University of Pennsylvania has become one of the elite Ivy League schools in the "Ancient 8" Penn has supported the sport of Fencing since it's intramural program was established in 1864. Penn became one of the nations first varsity programs in 1903 and has been a leader in the sport ever since. Constantly ranked in the nations top 10 Fencing programs, Penn strives to find the balance between high level academics and on strip performance. Please visit our website at: www.pennathletics .com to see what we are all about.

Team Info:

MEN’S FENCING (scroll down for Women's Fencing) All-Time Honors NCAA Team Titles 1953 1969 1981 NCAA Weapon Titles 1990 Sabre Ivy League Championships (18): 1966, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2018 IFA Championships Combined Six Weapon (1) : 2009 Three Weapon (11): 1967, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1990, 2009 Epee (14): 1953, 1962, 1965, 1970, 1972, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2001, 2009 Sabre (12): 1951, 1967, 1968, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1990, 2009 Foil (9): 1953, 1965, 1973, 1976, 1977, 2001, 2002, 2006 U.S. Weapon Squad Championships Overall Title (5): 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 Sabre (6): 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Foil (1): 2015 WOMEN’S FENCING All-Time Honors NCAA Team Titles 1986 Ivy League Championships (10): 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2004 IFA Championships Combined Six Weapon (1): 2009 Three Weapon (2): 2004, 2008 Epee (1): 2008 Sabre (3): 2004, 2008, 2009 Foil (1): 2007 U.S. Weapon Squad Championships Team Title (1): 2011 Epee (2): 2015, 2016 Sabre: Foil (1): 2013

Training Info:

We train 5 days a week for 2 hours, plus 2 hours of Weight Traing (two 1 hour sessions) plus Private Lessons with your Weapon Coach.

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