Your Fencing coach should be able to provide you with a sense of whether your skills will compensate for an ACT score that would otherwise remove you from consideration at the colleges you mentioned. I would consult with him or her instead of with anonymous sources on the Internet. If he or she has not been providing you with active guidance, then perhaps you should consider that a message in itself. Your coach should have an idea of how low an ACT score those colleges will admit, and whether you have a chance. My advice will not change regardless of how many threads you initiate on this subject.