Tigran Shaginian, Swords Fencing Studio founder and head coach, is a four-time Russian national champion. Winner of the European Championship (1981) in the team competition and several other international tournaments, he earned a place on the Soviet Union's Goodwill Games Pentathlon Team in 1984, proving him to be a top athlete in fencing, shooting, horse riding, running and swimming. With over 40
years of competing and coaching experience, his students are consistently among the top US fencers, with two students winning Gold at the Junior Olympics, two National Titles among juniors and cadets, and twice represented the US National Team in the Junior World Championships. Swords fencing students typically go on to fence at top universities and colleges in the US, including Columbia, Penn, MIT, Notre Dame, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and have been accepted at Yale, Princeton, Brown, among others.
