Molly Sullivan

Molly Sullivan fenced at Notre Dame, leading them to the 1987 NCAA women’s foil team championship. She also won two individual NCAA titles, and was later named Notre Dame’s Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s. Sullivan fenced at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, and also won two gold medals in team foil at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games. Sullivan won three US foil titles in 1985 – the under-20, the senior individual, and the team title.

After retiring from fencing after the Barcelona Olympics, Sullivan married and settled with her family in the Boston area. She has run fencing clinics there at several locations, and also worked as a motivational speaker. Some of her speaking deals with how she herself had to overcome dyslexia to succeed in school.