Ivan Lee
Head Coach

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Email: Ivan.Lee@liu.edu

Ivan Lee was named the women's fencing head coach in April 2019.

A Brooklyn native who graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School, Lee was a two-time national champion in the sabre at St. John’s, and led the program to its first Division I national championship in 2001. That year, he was named the US Olympic Committee’s Male Athlete of the Year.
 
A member of the 2001 U.S. Junior World Sabre team, Lee anchored the team to its first men’s world title at the 2001 Junior World Championships in Gdansk, Poland, becoming the first man of African American descent to win a world fencing championship. Lee won two gold medals at the Pan American Games in 2003. He was also a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team in Athens, placing 12th in the individual competition and 4th in the team competition, missing the bronze medal by one point.
 
Lee still holds more world championship medals (4) than any American male ever, and he remains the only American male fencer ever to win a Junior Olympic Championship, a National Championship, an NCAA Championship, a World Championship, a Pan American Championship and make an Olympic Team.
 
Lee, who began fencing in 1994 at the Peter Westbrook Foundation, retired from international competition in 2008, and was inducted into the United States Fencing Association Hall of Fame Inductee in 2014.
 
Since his retirement, Lee, who graduated from St. John’s with a degree in journalism in 2004, has served as a volunteer coach with the Peter Westbrook Foundation, and was the Fencing Commissioner for the Public School Athletic League (PSAL) in New York. He also works as a police office in the New York City Police Department.
 



 

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