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Meet your NOFC coaches here - Beginners Coach Jonathan Cohen,
Epee Coach Ted Cotton, Saber Coach Chris Trammell, and Foil
Coach Craig Kraemer
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Saber Coach Chris Trammel
Chris has trained under Dr. E.
Hamori (Olympic Gold medallist, Hungary, U.S.
National Champion) and was on the NOFC sabre team placing third in the
U.S. Nationals in 1975 and 1976. He
won the Sectional Sabre Championships several
times as well as the major sabre tournaments of the region, such as
the Atlanta Open, Dallas Open,
Houston Van Buskirk Memorial, and regional circuit
events such as the Rose Condon Memorial and the Crescent City Open.
He kept his B sabre rating
maintaining it almost continuously from 1975 through
2005. His competitive career included visual then electric sabre
fencing. For many years he had the
pleasure of fencing with Dr. John Kalmar,
(Olympic Bronze Medalist, Hungary) a team mate during Dr. Kalmar's
active years in the USA.
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Epee coach Ted
Cotton Dr. William T. Cotton (who goes by "Ted") in his
day job is a professor of English literature at Loyola University of
thirty-eight years' standing and has been associated with the New Orleans
Fencing Academy since its inception in 1970. In the N.O.F.A. he
instructed in foil and later in epée, and took lessons in sabre from Dr.
Eugene Hamori and Chris Trammel. He has first-level certificates in epée
and sabre (sabre taken right-handed) from the U.S.F.A.'s Coaches' College
in Colorado Springs. He learned fencing as a youth in the
Philippines (starting out right-handed, although he is a natural
lefthander), and fenced for Cornell under Georges Cointe 1954-58, fencing
in third position on the team that won the Eastern Intercollegiate Foil
Championship in 1956. The Little Iron Man, the trophy in that
competition, is touted as being the trophy in longest uninterrupted
competition in U.S. collegiate sports.
Ted has lived in New Orleans since 1968. His wife
Nancy and daughter Alice both fenced for a time.
His highest ratings have been C in foil and D in epée.
Some competitive highlights: Sectional foil champion once (undefeated in a
round-robin of ten); won Tulane foil once; won Maxwell Wright Epée once
(fencing right-handed); third place in the N.O.F.A.'s Fall Mêlée (right-handed);
three consecutive foil wins in the N.O.F.A.'s Fort Walton Beach
Tournament; Southern Men's Masters (50 and over) singles champion in
badminton.
W. T. C.,
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Foil Coach Andrew Stout
Andrew began fencing at St
George's between 3rd and 4th grade with
Coach Carlos Ochoa, who was a Peruvian Olympic Fencer. Coach
Richard Exnicious has been - and remains
today- Andrew's Fencing Coach for
the past sixteen years. Richard trained under many-times-over
National, International, Olympic, and World Champion of multiple
weapons, Dr. Eugene Hamori, who founded
the club NOFC Andrew was a member of and fenced with for four years
before joining Tulane Fencing Club. As a St. Georges Youth Fencer,
Andrew won many local tournaments,
and placed in the top 5 and the top 20 during two successive
trips to the Junior Olympics. As a NOFA Fencer, he was a team
captain and foil champion several times for the annual NOFA Team
Melee, and placed in the top five several
times in the exhaustive NOFA Foil
Melee. As a Tulane Fencer Andrew has earned a "C" Rating
for his Semi-Final Placement at the 2004
Long Horn Open, and has continued to compete in various Louisiana
tournaments. Most recently he
defeated his long-time coach and friend Richard Exnicious for first
place at the 2007 "Les Chevaliers", in New Orleans. Andrew
was also Blindfolded for the
entirety of the bout.
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