Royal Fencing Academy Coaches
Meet Head Coach and Owner TJ Safai
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Assistant Coaches
Coach Robert Klebs:
Coach Robert is a D rated Sabre and Foil fencer and an Assistant Moniteur de Sabre. He has been working with Coach TJ for many years and excels in coaching our youngest fencers. He also referees regional and national events. Coach Rober will graduate with his Bachelor's degree in the Spring of 2025.
Coach Robert is a D rated Sabre and Foil fencer and an Assistant Moniteur de Sabre. He has been working with Coach TJ for many years and excels in coaching our youngest fencers. He also referees regional and national events. Coach Rober will graduate with his Bachelor's degree in the Spring of 2025.
Coach Gitty Moheban:
Coach Gitty is a foil fencer who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1974 at the Asian Games, she won gold for team foil and bronze for individual foil. Coach Gitty is available for private lessons and loves imparting her amazing life experiences to her students.
Coach Gitty is a foil fencer who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. In 1974 at the Asian Games, she won gold for team foil and bronze for individual foil. Coach Gitty is available for private lessons and loves imparting her amazing life experiences to her students.
Coach Laura Trauth:
- Coach Laura Trauth is one of 49 Moniteurs de Sabre in the United States. She has been fencing sabre since 2017 and epee since 2020. She is a college professor with 30 years of experience teaching both college students and parallel enrolled high school students. She has a PhD in European History and Master's degrees in Humanities and Geospatial Information Systems as well as being certified in Red Cross CPR/AED/First Aid. Coach Laura is also a distance runner who ran her first marathon in 2024 and has run many half marathons as well. She is working on her personal fitness instructor certification. Coach Laura loves helping students not only improve their fencing skills, but also their overall fitness and their critical thinking skills and emotional resilience.
Coach Terry Wynne:
- Coach Terry is an Assistant Moniteur de Sabre. He has been fencing sabre since 2017, and foil and epee since 2020. He has also done historical fencing since 2019 including sabre, rapier, small sword, and longsword. His goal in coaching is to create a lifelong passion for the art of swordsmanship in all students. Before Coach Terry began his thirty-year career with the Department of Defense, he was a secondary school teacher who taught physics and math. His philosophy is that the English School has one foot in modern fencing and one in historical fencing. Coach Terry has Master's degrees in Physics and Aerospace Engineering and will obtain his third master's degree in Strategic Studies in the Spring of 2025.