Best Boarding School for Fencing?

SevenDad
Mon, 30 Aug 2021 02:49:56 +0000

To better answer your question, I have to ask more questions:

How good/how involved in the sport are you (or if you’re a parent, your child)?

What is your/your child’s ultimate goal — for your high school experience and your college experience (both athletically and academically)?

What weapon do you/does your child fence?

If you scan the rosters of most D1 programs (including Ivies), you won’t see too many boarding schools listed — there are good reasons why…including a few mentioned by folks above. As one very top-of-mind data point, Lee Kiefer, the ND grad who just won Olympic gold in women’s foil (and arguably the best WF the US has ever produced) went to her local public high school.

(FYI, one of my daughters is a fencer who was recruited by a few schools…so I’ve been involved in her process from Y10 to D1.)