The members of Team USA’s Veteran-50 Women’s Epee squad (L-R): Kristin FOELLMER, Heidi CHANG, Lisa WOLF, Sandra MARCHANT. Photo by Taro Yamashita.
Lisa WOLF (right) in action at 2025 USA Fencing Summer Nationals in Milwaukee, WI. June 30, 2025. Photo credit: Taro Yamashita
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.
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