Ernie Simon – Head Coach

Fencing Achievements: 

8 times Australian National Champion

3 times National Collegiate Champion (USA, 1978, 1980, 1981) Commonwealth

Senior: Coached 5 Senior National Champions. 

Assistant Coach, World Championship Budapest/Hungary(1991)

Coached Olympic Representatives for the Los Angeles (1984), Seoul (1988) and Barcelona Games (1992). 

Veterans: Coached Commonwealth Veterans Foil gold-medallist Dr.Zoltan Vilagosh (Sydney 2003).

Accredited in all three weapons (Foil, Epee, Sabre) with the Australian Sports Commission, Ernie oversees all aspects of coaching at the club:

Coaches the beginners and intermediates.

Gives individual lessons in the three weapons

Michael Takagi 

Gives individual lessons in Sabre.

Runs Sabre classes for beginners and advance students.

Currently undergoing accreditation in sabre.

Patrick Lepicier

Patrick has fenced for the past 20 years and has been trained to coach by Head Coach Ernie Simon.

Runs the beginner classes          .

Runs Foil classes for beginners and intermediate students.

Runs the warm-up training sessions.

Gives individual lessons in foil to children

Fencing Championships Silver Medallist (Glasgow 1978) 

Represented Australia in 2 Olympics (Munich 1972,

Montreal 1976)

Represented Australia in 8 World Championships

Represented Australia at Commonwealth Games

Award:

 Inducted into the Wayne State University – Athletics Hall of Fame (2004)

Coaching Achievements:

Junior: Coached many junior level fencers to State and National Champions in all age groups U/12, U/15, U/17, U/20 in Boys and Girls.

In 1991 Ernie coached Australia’s only World Champion, Seamus Robinson in the U/17 World Championships in Foggia/Italy.

In 1993 Ernie coached Charlotte Walker, gold-medallist in a U/20  “A” grade tournament in Poland. (These are the only 2 occasions where Australian Juniors have won Major International Championships)

Head coach of the Australian Junior Fencing Team at the World Championship in Colorado/USA (1993)