Fencing Biography:

Nathan Anderson has over sixteen years of experience fencing. In his two-year high school career, he fenced both foil and epée. He had many remarkable results in fencing: 1st Colorado State Open (foil), 2nd Junior North American Cup in Kansas City (epée), 13th Junior North American Cup at Stanford University.

He was recruited to fence at the University of Pennsylvania where in his freshmen year he fenced in the NCAA finals in Men’s Epée, where his team won a silver medal. In his sophomore year, Nathan fenced foil and Penn secured the Team Bronze Medal at the NCAA Championships. Also in his sophomore year, he won the Mid-Atlantic Sectional in foil and earned an ‘A’ rating. During his Junior year, he studied abroad in Belgium and finished 6th in a competition in the Netherlands. In his senior year, he was Team Captain, an All-American, first team All Ivy League selection in foil.

Nathan Anderson continued to fence after college and recently chose to take up sabre. In his first year of sabre fencing, he was ranked third overall in the State and had earned a ‘C’ rating. In 2005, Nathan won the Rocky Mountain Sectional Championship in Men's Sabre and was the runner-up in Men's Foil to the 2006 National Champion Andras Horanyi. Though coaching leave little time to fence in many competitions, Nathan maintains a ‘B‘ rating in foil, ‘C‘ rating in Epee, and a ‘C‘ rating in Sabre.

Coaching Accomplishments:

Since re-opening the Denver Fencing Center on January 3, 2004, Nathan's students have won a number of tournaments: Colorado Cups, Colorado Youth Cups, Colorado Unrateds, Colorado D & Under, Bill Goering Memorial, Nick Toth, and the Falcon Open. His fencers' won tournaments in all three weapons: foil, epee, and saber. During the 2005-2006 season, Denver Fencing Center fencers represented eight out of the fifteen (53%) Colorado Cup winners. In his three years of coaching, Nathan has created over 33 new rated fencers representing all three weapons.

His coaching placed seven fencers on the US Fencing National Points list in Youth 10 Boys Foil, Youth 10 Boys Epee, Youth 12 Men's Epee, Youth 12 Women's Foil, Youth 14 Men's Epee, Under 17 Men's Epee and Women's Veteran's Saber.

In 2007, he got his North American Cup winner, Joseph Longuevan, won the Y10 Boys Epee event and his first National Champion when Mary Wilkerson won Veteran's Women Saber (40-49) title and received a special Coaches' medal from U.S Fencing for his success. Joseph Longuevan also finished the season as the Points Champion for the Y10 Boys' Epee Division.

Nathan is a lifetime member of the US Fencing Association and the US Fencing Coaches' Association. He serves as Rocky Mountain Regional Youth Coordinator for U.S. Fencing Youth Development Commitee.