MINNEAPOLIS: Fencing Academy of Philadelphia foilist Maia
Mei Weintraub won gold in the Division 1 July Challenge event on the first day of the USA Fencing
Summer Nationals & July Challenge, in a competitive field of 122 top women foilists.
Maia will join Team USA's Senior World Team at the 2022 Senior World Championships in
Cairo, Egypt later in July. Earlier this year Weintraub won Junior Team Women's Foil in Dubai, UAE.
Coached by Maître d'Armes Mark L. Masters, Weintraub anchored the team.
Weintraub, who resides in Philadelphia with her family, has been a student of Fencing
Academy of Philadelphia since the age of 9, and is a Princeton University undergrad. Earlier in 2022
Maia won the foil title in her NCAA Championships debut. Maia was an alternate member of Team
USA in the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In 2021 as one of the American women's foil junior
team, Weintraub won silver at the Junior/Cadet Worlds Championship. 
Established in 1989, Fencing Academy of Philadelphia is the leading fencing club in the
Delaware Valley, known throughout the international fencing community for its world-class coaching,
athletes, and sportsmanship. In addition to nurturing a team of regionally, nationally, and
internationally competitive fencers; and mentoring coaches worldwide, Maître d'Armes Mark Masters
and Program Director Coach Lara Masters have developed world champions in foil, épée and saber
and in cadet, junior, senior, and veteran classes.
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