Jim Carpenter

Jim Carpenter fenced épée at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He also won two medals at the Pan American Games in team épée, a bronze in 1991 and a silver in 1992. He competed in three World Championships and had one top eight finish in the World Cup. Carpenter fenced at Northwestern as a walk-on, but soon became team captain.

Carpenter later became a fencing coach, serving at the Atlantic Fencing Academy in Tinton Falls, New Jersey and he spent three years at the United States Fencing Association as the director of high performance and women’s épée national coach. Carpenter also held several leadership positions with the US Fencing Association, serving as head weapons coach at the 2005 and 2007 World Championships. Carpenter became the head fencing coach at the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2012.