Michael D'Asaro Sr.
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox fencer Michael D'Asaro Sr. (March 14, 1938 – December 12, 2000) was an American fencing master and coach.
D'Asaro was a Pan American Games, U.S., and World Military Sabre Champion, and had the particular distinction of being perhaps the last top-level three-weapon competitor.[1] He was also a fencing coach at San Jose State University.[1]
Accomplishments
Sabre
- 1960 Summer Olympics – 4th place US team.[2]
- Pan American Games – 1st in individual and team, 1963.
- Nationals – 1st, 1962, medalist in '60, '66, and '67.
- NCAA – 1st 1960.
Foil
Nationals – 3rd, 1963, 1st (team) 1959.
Épée
Pan American Games – 2nd (individual), 1st (team), 1959. Martini-Rossi – 3rd, 1963.
Coaching
Olympic Coach and member of the National Coaching Staff: 1976 Olympics, 1977 World University Games, 1975 and '79 Pan American Games, and 1973 and '74 Junior World Championships.
Honors
D'Asaro was inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame in 2002.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He finished his coaching career at Westside Fencing Center in Los Angeles.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Miscellaneous
His former wife, Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro, was a member of the 1976 and 1980 US Women's Olympic Foil Teams. His son, Michael D'Asaro Jr., coached in California at California Institute of Technology, Santa Barbara Fencing Academy and his soon to open club, Salle D'asaro. Michael Jr. has now relocated to Trophy Club, Texas. He's also made mention of a new fencing club.
Former students
- Jeff Richardson[3]
- Darrell Bluhm[4]
- Michael D'asaro Jr.[5]
- Thom Cate[6]
- Soren Thompson, two-time Olympian in epee and world champion
See also
- United States Fencing Association
- List of USFA Division I National Champions
- List of NCAA fencing champions
- List of USFA Hall of Fame members
References
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- 1938 births
- 2000 deaths
- Fencers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- San Jose State Spartans fencing coaches
- American male épée fencers
- Olympic fencers for the United States
- Fencers at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Fencers at the 1963 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1963 Pan American Games
- NYU Violets fencers
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in fencing
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in fencing
- American male foil fencers
- American male sabre fencers
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- Left-handed fencers