Mauro Hamza
Current position | |
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Title | Head coach/Foil Director |
Team | Rice University |
Biographical details | |
Born | Cairo, Egypt |
Accomplishments and honors | |
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2004 Egyptian National Foil Coach |
Mauro Hamza is originally from Cairo, Egypt, and established [Salle Mauro] in August, 1999 in Houston. He also served as Fencing Program Coordinator at Rice University from 1998 to 2014.
Mauro was the Egyptian Olympic coach for the men’s and women’s foil teams at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and was the United States Fencing Association Men’s Foil National Coach 2009-2010; then USA Foil Director for Men’s and Women’s National teams in 2010-2011. In 2009, December 26 was declared “Mauro Hamza Day” by Houston mayor Bill White in recognition of his development of the sport of fencing in Houston.[1]
He owns the Salle Mauro Fencing Academy in Houston. Hamza was the fencing instructor at Rice University.[2]
References
- ^ Bill White Proclaims December 26 Mauro Hamza Day in Houston, Texas Archived 2011-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Rice University Rice's Hamza named men's foil coach for Team USA 9/4/2009
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