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BENFENCING / COACH PROFILE
Tim Morehouse’s chapter joins Olympic experience with a long commitment to teaching, coaching and expanding access to fencing.
Morehouse represented the United States at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. He won silver in men’s team sabre at Beijing 2008, reached the individual quarterfinals in London in 2012, and competed on nine Senior World Championship teams.
A two-time U.S. Individual National Champion in 2010 and 2011, his competitive career was shaped by 15 years as a student of four-time Olympian and USA Fencing Hall of Fame coach Yury Gelman.
As founder of Tim Morehouse Fencing Club, he built a broad coaching program whose students have earned national medals and continued to universities including Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell and Princeton.
His education work includes service as a Teach For America teacher and teacher trainer, a Master’s Degree in Education, the Fencing In The Schools nonprofit, and White House “Champion of Change” recognition in 2012.
Morehouse brought Benjamin into an environment shaped by Olympic experience, ambitious program building and a strong belief in the teachability of high-level sabre. His chapter in Benjamin’s development connected competitive standards with a larger culture of education and opportunity.
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