The RIFAC blog

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Alex Ripa, an assistant coach for Brown the last three seasons and the owner of the Rhode Island Fencing Academy and Club, has been named the fencing head coach at Brown [...]

RIFAC was recently featured in a great article in East Bay Life: Creating confidence, character…and champions There’s room for every athlete at local fencing academy By Christy Nadalin [...]

RIFAC was recently honored by the United States Fencing Association as the 2016 Club of Excellence in Youth Development.  Head Coach, Alex, will receive the award on behalf of the club on July 1 [...]

RIFAC’s Head Coach, Alex Ripa, was recognized for outstanding acheivement by the United States Fencing Coaches Association with the presentation of the 2015 Coach of the Year award. [...]

By BILL KOCH Providence Journal Sports Writer Posted Nov. 16, 2015 at 9:19 PM EAST PROVIDENCE — More than three dozen Rhode Island athletes have decided their college futures by signing national [...]

I gripped my sabre, assumed the en-garde position and glared at my victim. Josef Cohen, age 16, was about to be dispatched. I would show him no mercy. We were facing each other on one of the long [...]

American Fencing Magazine salutes RIFAC among best clubs in the nation! Read the full article

Quinn Crum of Providence takes a break between fencing bouts at the Junior Olympics at the Baltimore Convention Center Sunday evening. Crum, 15, was one of about 1,500 athletes from around the [...]

More than 30 members of RIFAC will travel to Louisville, Ky, later this month to compete in the 2013 January North America Cup, sponsored by the U.S. Fencing Association. photos by Bob Thayer / [...]