Riverside Coach Qualifies for World Team

Milwaukee, WI, June 30, 2025 -- Dr. Lisa WOLF, PhD of Hadley, MA, who trains and coaches at the Riverside Fencing Club in Hadley has qualified for the 2025 Veteran Fencing World Championships, November 10-20, 2025 in Manama, Bahrain. Dr. Wolf will be a member of USA Fencing’s delegation, competing in the Veteran-50 Women’s Epee category.

The Championships is for athletes aged 40+, with age categories by decades (40-49, 50-59, 60-69, and 70+), by weapon discipline (foil, epee, and sabre), and gender. Epee is distinguished from foil and sabre in that the valid target area is unrestricted; it shares with foil the restriction that all “touches” can be scored only by “stabbing” with the point of the weapon only; sabre allows for “cuts” or “slashing” motions with the edge of the blade to score.

This will be Dr. Wolf’s second Veteran World Championships; she previously competed in 2019 in Cairo, Egypt, and finished #44 in the world in the same category.

Dr. Wolf started fencing at Riverside in 2009 after finding a promotional flier in her youngest child’s backpack after school one day. She credits the fencing community, and especially Riverside, with being a welcoming environment that has allowed her to develop from an adult woman beginner to a world-class athlete.

Dr. Wolf is an Associate professor at the UMass Elaine Marieb College of Nursing and the Lead Nurse Scientist at the Emergency Nurses Association.