Anastasia Ferdman - Women's Fencing Coach

Anastasia Ferdman

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
anastasia.ferdman@temple.edu
Phone:
215-204-1627

Former Israeli National Epee Champion and 2009 NCAA Individual Epee Champion Anastasia Ferdman is in her third season as an assistant coach at Temple.

A native of Israel, Ferdman had spent the previous two years as the head fencing coach at Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J., while also serving as the epee coach at the Medeo Fencing Club in Bridgewater, N.J.

Last year, Ferdman guided the epee squad to a record of 25-11, tying for the most wins in program history. Two of her squad members, Rachael Clark and Chantal Montrose, advanced to the NCAA Championships. Montrose won the NIWFA individual championship for the fourth year in a row. In her first season on head coach Nikki Franke's coaching staff, Ferdman’s squad finished at 16-14 and won a conference title at the NIWFA Championships.

Under her tutelage at Ridge, Ferdman guided and motivated multiple epee fencers to individual state championships. At the Medeo Fencing Club, she has coached several epee fencers who were finalists at multiple national events.

Just before arriving to Temple, Ferdman coached Ridge’s women’s epee squad to titles in the 2012 state and district championships

As a fencer herself, Ferdman competed in epee for her entire career. While earning a bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State, she collected a myriad of accomplishments.

Serving as the squad captain for three years, Ferdman was a member of the 2007, 2009 and 2010 NCAA Championship teams. Her junior year with the Nittany Lions proved to be her best during her collegiate career, as she was crowned the NCAA Individual Epee Champion in 2009.

Beginning to fence at five years of age at Macabi Maalot, which was the gym run by her father, Yakov, Ferdman learned to develop her talent in epee. By the age of 14, Ferdman competed in the 2000 World Junior Championships in South Bend, Ind., where she took a very impressive third place finish.

Also while a fencer at her father’s gym, Ferdman was a member of the Israeli National Team from 1999-2006. Of those years, Ferdman was Israeli’s national champion six times, winning titles every year from 2000-2005, while also placing second at the European Junior Championships in 2005 and fourth in the Junior World Rankings in 2005.

Before beginning her collegiate career, Ferdman earned her coaching certification at the Nat Holman School for Coaches and Instructors from the Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport in Netaniya, Israel.