Princeton University Men's Fencing

Zoltan Dudas is in his 21st year as head coach of the Princeton men's and women's fencing teams in 2026-27. In every possible year during his Princeton caree...

A two-time NCAA saber champion, two-time NCAA team champion and a U.S. national team saber coach, Aleks Ochocki joined the Princeton fencing teams as an assistant coach ahead of the 2024-25 season. Ochocki's first season saw Princeton sabers earn five All-Ivy League honors, three bids to the NCAA Championships, Alexandra Lee made the NCAA semifinals, and Lee and Emese Domonkos earned All-American honors. Ochocki followed that in 2025-26 with three All-Ivy League honors, All-American honors for Lee and Honor Johnson and another NCAA semifinal berth for Lee. An alumnus of Penn State, Ochocki was the 2009 and 2012 NCAA saber champion and helped the Nittany Lions to team titles in 2009 and 2010, and his work with the U.S. national saber teams has seen him serve as the women’s coach for the 2024 Olympic cycle and as the men’s coach for the 2028 Olympic cycle. A native of Clark, N.J., Ochocki began his collegiate coaching career as an assistant at Stevens Tech in Hoboken, N.J., from 2012-16 before moving on to Notre Dame for three seasons, helping the Irish to back-to-back national team championships in 2017 and 2018 and a third-place finish in 2019. Ochocki returned to the Northeast to serve as an assistant coach at NYU in 2022, serving as an assistant coach until joining the Tigers in 2024. As a member of the U.S. National Fencing Team, Ochocki was a seven-time National Champion, earning a bronze medal at the 2010 Junior World Championships and won more than 40 North American Cup

Cory Goshkagarian joined Princeton University’s staff in February 2020 serving as Strength and Conditioning Assistant with football as well as overseeing the...

Emmanuel is a history professor and is a Princeton Athletics Fellow for the men's and women's fencing teams.

George O'Neil has served as an athletic trainer at Princeton since 1989. He currently works with the football, men's golf and men's lacrosse teams. During hi...

John is the director of the Bridge Year Program at Princeton and is a Princeton Athletics Fellow with the men's and women's fencing teams.

Oleg Stetsiv , who has enjoyed a long run of sending talented fencers on to NCAA success during his club coaching career, joined the Princeton coaching staff...

Philip is a lecturer with the Princeton Program in Plasma Physics and is a Princeton Athletics Fellow with the fencing teams.

Szilvia Gyore is in her 21st season on the fencing coaching staff at Princeton in 2026-27, helping the teams earn a combined 16 Ivy League titles, 17 straight top-10 NCAA team finishes in years the meet was held and Princeton competed, 12 top-four NCAA finishes, and the 2013 NCAA title. In 2022, Princeton earned its first NCAA individual foil title in Gyore's and Dudas's tenure with Maia Weintraub '25, and in 2023, Mohamed Hamza '23, an Olympic quarterfinalist individually in 2021, made the NCAA final. Gyore was elevated to associate head coach in 2018. "I am very happy that we have a full-time coach for all three weapons, an ideal situation for a varsity fencing program. Our fencers get much more individual attention than before and that is the key to success," Princeton head fencing coach Zoltan Dudas said. "Szilvia works with the men’s and women’s teams in the foil. Her experience with fencers ranging from very young to Olympic-level will help her to work from walk-ons to All-America talent." In her first 19 competitive seasons at Princeton, Gyore has helped the Tiger foils earn 61 NCAA finals berths and 45 All-Ivy League recognitions. Under her tutelage, Princeton foils have earned 31 All-American honors, including Princeton's first four-time All-America men's foilist in Alexander Mills '12. Eve Levin '14 matched the feat two years later, having earned All-America honors in each of her four seasons. Gyore, a Hungarian native who has trained world-ranked and Olympic fencer