Duke Fencing star Becca Ward interview in Sunday Washington Post Magazine

[SmartDevil]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/first-person-becca-ward-23-washington-fencing-coacholympian-arlington-fencers/2013/06/12/832ed3b2-c311-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html

[Indoor66]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/first-person-becca-ward-23-washington-fencing-coacholympian-arlington-fencers/2013/06/12/832ed3b2-c311-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html

WOW! What a young lady - with head on straight and feet firmly on the ground. She will be an impact person in her life. I only know of her what I had read on this board. This interview/article paints a much fuller picture - and I am proud that the picture includes Duke. I would love to meet her and have a conversation. I think I could learn from her.

[sagegrouse]

Money quote:


"I had an extremely contentious relationship with my fencing coach. He was very mad that I went to Duke because it was not a good fencing school.... The day after he said that, I ordered a Duke sweatshirt and wore it every day to fencing... I won NCAA championships three out of four years."

sagegrouse

[fitimi1]

And what has not been said is how much she valued her Duke experience by foregoing another chance at the Olympics in London. It would have meant dropping out for a year.

http://dukemagazine.duke.edu/article/london-isnt-calling