Yury Gelman
Head Coach
Source season: 2025–26
St. John's head coach since 1995, leading its 2001 NCAA championship team; founder of Manhattan Fencing Center.
Source checked: 2026-10-25United States · Queens, NY
St. John's University
Fencing programs
St. John's University Women's Fencing
- Team
- Women
- Division / system
- I
- Weapons
- Foil · Épée · Sabre
- Source checked
- 2026-10-22
Program classification checked against an official source.
Source season: 2025–26
Coaching staff
Sergey Danilov
Assistant Coach
Source season: 2025–26
Former New York Fencing Academy épée coach who guided the U.S. junior team to world silver in 2019.
Source checked: 2026-10-25Sergey Isayenko
Assistant Coach
Source season: 2025–26
St. John's graduate and 2005 NCAA sabre champion; former Ukrainian national-team fencer who coached Tunisia at the Tokyo Olympics.
Source checked: 2026-10-25Stepan Simonov
Assistant Coach
Source season: 2025–26
Simonov has coached since 1999 and works at Gutkovskiy Fencing Academy, where his students have included Duke foil fencer Rachel Koo.
Source checked: 2026-10-25St. John's University Men's Fencing
- Team
- Men
- Division / system
- I
- Weapons
- Foil · Épée · Sabre
- Source checked
- 2026-10-22
Program classification checked against an official source.
Source season: 2025–26
Coaching staff
Yury Gelman
Head Coach
Source season: 2025–26
St. John's head coach since 1995, leading its 2001 NCAA championship team; founder of Manhattan Fencing Center.
Source checked: 2026-10-25Sergey Danilov
Assistant Coach
Source season: 2025–26
Former New York Fencing Academy épée coach who guided the U.S. junior team to world silver in 2019.
Source checked: 2026-10-25Sergey Isayenko
Assistant Coach
Source season: 2025–26
St. John's graduate and 2005 NCAA sabre champion; former Ukrainian national-team fencer who coached Tunisia at the Tokyo Olympics.
Source checked: 2026-10-25Stepan Simonov
Assistant Coach
Source season: 2025–26
Simonov has coached since 1999 and works at Gutkovskiy Fencing Academy, where his students have included Duke foil fencer Rachel Koo.
Source checked: 2026-10-25Admissions & cost snapshot
College Raptor · data labelled 2023–2024 · reviewed 25 October 2026
- Overall acceptance rate
- 83.43%
- Reported SAT range
- 1,160 – 1,340
- Average net price (USD)
- US$29,656
- Reported median starting salary (USD)
- US$54,189
- Reported fencing revenue (USD)
- US$1,014,327
Historical university-wide figures, not athlete admissions odds or a personal aid offer. SAT ranges are not minimum requirements. Program revenue is not profit or a scholarship budget.
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Connected competitions
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Official sources
- Official USA Fencing Current NCAA Programs index; includes future launches. School athletics homepages without a fetched fencing-specific page are not independently verified. ↗ · Checked 2026-10-22
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