Our head coach and manager, Agota Balot, is a former Hungarian Junior Team Champion with more than 50 years of fencing and personal training experience. Born in Budapest, Hungary, she is multilingual, trained in management, and is a certified personal trainer and former marathon runner. She has met fencers from all over the world and has been fortunate to have opportunities to bout with champions and fencing legends. The daughter of Magda Nyari, five-time World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist, she has spent her entire life with fencing. She started the Academy in 1999 and trained well over thousand fencers in all three weapons. Her fencers reached numerous national finals and reached the top of the podium in foil and epee. Her students, Alexx Sowuleski finished 8th at the 2003 National Championship Youth-14 epee event; Nicole Vaiani was Youth-12 National Foil Champion in 2010; Sally Higgins finished 2nd in Veteran-70 epee in 2014. Agota had been the head coach of the Ranney School’s varsity fencing team for ten years. The team and their individual fencers reached top of the podium at NJSIAA and NJISAA championship events. Since 2022, he is coaching the Stockton University Fencing Club. Besides managing the club and coaching, Agota actively fencing nationally and internationally. At the Veteran World Fencing Championships in Livorno 2018 and in Cairo  2019, she earned bronze medals in the epee event.  In May 2023 at the European Veteran Championships, she earned bronze medal in foil and also in saber. Email:  Agota@atlanticfencing.com