[1] At age 19, he won the junior national championships in Yugoslavia in épée, foil, and sabre.
[2] He worked as a product designer on weekdays and coached fencing at night and on weekends.
[10] One of them, Eli Dershwitz, became the youngest-ever national champion in sabre,[11] and went on to win gold medals in the Junior World Championship (2015) and twice in the Pan American Championships (2014 and 2015).
[12] In 2014, USA Fencing appointed him head coach of the U.S. Men’s Saber Team.
[13] Zeta Fencing, was ranked number one of the USFA Clubs at Cadet & Junior World Championships, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in 2015 with members of the club contributing 192.25 points to the US score.