Dear all,
Welcome to the 2024-25 season at CFC, and I wish all of you good luck in this upcoming season.

We will begin our practices starting on Saturday, September 7, 2024 and initially, we will again be open three times per week.
Tuesdays - 7:30-9:30 pm
Thursdays - 7:30-9:30 pm
Saturday - 11:00 am-1:00 pm

It may change at any point, as the membership of the club returns to higher levels. Thanks, and I look forward to seeing you all soon.
Jarek Koniusz

"Jarek Koniusz Coaches Eli Dershwitz to Gold at 2023 World Fencing Championships"

is an Associate Professor/Senior Coach at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Head Coach of MIT’s Women’s and Men’s Varsity Fencing Teams. With over 30 years of international level competition, as both a coach and an accomplished athlete, Jarek enters his 25th year at the helm of MIT’s men’s and women’s fencing program. A four-time Northeast Fencing Conference Coach of the Year, he has built MIT fencing into a perennial powerhouse, qualifying 44 fencers to the NCAA Championship and guiding the Engineers to 20 New England Championship titles during his tenure. Coached by Ed Korfanty, the U.S. Olympic Team Coach who led Mariel Zagunis to Olympic gold medals in 2004 and 2008, Koniusz competed internationally for Poland’s national team for nearly two decades. He earned two individual medals at the World Championships (bronze in 1981 and silver in 1989) and was a medalist at the World Cups. Koniusz holds a master’s degree from the Academy of Physical Education in Katowice, Poland and has earned the title of fencing master in sabre, epee, and foil. In 2002, he was honored by the Polish Fencing Federation with a Lifetime Achievement Award, given to the fencer who has made a lasting contribution to Polish fencing in its 75-year history. The same year Koniusz was selected by the U.S. Fencing Federation to coach the United States sabre team in the World Cup competition held at Koblenz, Germany. He also assisted with the bronze-medal winning U.S. men’s sabre team at the 2010 Junior World Championship in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Rob Hupp has been fencing for more than 40 years. He began at age 13, training at the RochesterFencers Club. Subsequently, he attended Cornell University, training first under Maitre Raoul Sudreand then intensively with Maitre Jean-Jacques Gillet. Rob acquired an A-rating in epee while still anundergraduate, and took part in both national and international competitions following his graduation.

Geoff Pingree started fencing over 40 years ago as a freshman at MIT. Trained by fencing masters Eric Sollee and John Tsang, he became the IFA epee individual and team champion, an NCAA Division One All-American and earned an ‘A’ rating from the United States Fencing Association. He was a contributor to a book on fencing strategy (Olympic gold medalist, Johan Harmenberg’s Epee 2.5). Geoff is an assistant coach at the fencing program at MIT, an instructor at the Cambridge Fencing Center, and the varsity coach at the International School of Boston. Geoff is a registered architect, with a practice focusing on residential and institutional work. He is also the designer (with coach Jarek Konuisz) of the MIT/CFC fencing room and has taught design studios for students at the Boston Architecture Center, using a fencing facility as the design problem.

Works in support of the sport of fencing