Jennie Salmon - Women's Fencing Coach

Jennie Salmon

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
jennie.salmon@temple.edu

Temple Head Coaching Experience
Year	Women's Overall Record	Postseason
2024-25	30-14	NIWFA Champs., NCAA Championship Qualifiers (1)
2023-24	25-16	NIWFA Champs., NCAA Championship Qualifiers (2)
2022-23	30-17	NIWFA Champs., NCAA Championship Qualifiers (1)
Total	85-47

Jennie Salmon, just the second head coach in Temple fencing history, is in her third year at the helm of the program for the 2024-25 season. Salmon was named head coach of Temple fencing on Aug. 23, 2022, taking over for Hall of Famer Dr. Nikki Franke. A 1995 graduate of Temple, Salmon returned to North Broad after four years as the head men's and women's fencing coach at Brandeis. She also has 22 years of successful club and high school coaching, and experience with USA Fencing.

The 2023-24 season saw Temple finish with a 25-16 record in dual play and achieve a No. 9 ranking in the end-of-season USFCA standings.

Primarily working with the foil and epee squads, the Temple foilists achieved an impressive 27-14 record, falling just one win short of the program record of 28 wins. The epeeists concluded the season with a 22-19 record.

The Owls faced a multitude of top-15 teams throughout the season, and earned wins over No. 2 Notre Dame, No. 3 Columbia, No. 11 St. Johns, and No. 13 Ohio State.

In postseason play, Temple extended its NIWFA Championship to 28-straight, earning weapons titles in foil and sabre, as well as two individual titles (Marherita Calderaro - epee and Anna Novoseltseva - foil). Calderaro and Novoseltseva were joined by sabreist Lauren Johnson on the All-NIWFA First Team, while Alex Weinberg, Lindsey Minor, and Natalie Adams-Kim were named to the Second Team. Additionally, Arwen Gormley was named to the NIWFA All-Academic Team.

The Owls sent the maximum 12 fencers to NCAA Regionals, where Anna Novoseltseva, Margherita Calderaro, Lauren Johnson, and Eva Ventura advanced to the finals. Novoseltseva earned the highest finish among the group, a fifth-place foil showing. Novoseltsa and Johnson, who placed eighth in sabre, were selected to represent Temple at the NCAA Championships.

At the NCAA Championships, the Cherry and White finished 15th overall. Both Johnson and Novoseltseva finished with 11 bout wins in the event.

The Owls went 30-17 during the 2022-23 season, Salmon’s first year leading the program. This marked just the third time in Temple fencing history the Owls reached 30 or more wins in dual play. Temple remained in the rankings all season, coming in at No. 11 in the three USFCA Rankings releases.

Working with both foil and epee squads, the epeeists set a squad record with 34 wins, while the foilists were just two wins shy of the program record of 28. The Owls extended their NIWFA Championship streak to 17-straight, sweeping all three team titles and earning two individual titles (Margherita Calderaro - epee and Anna Novoseltseva - foil). Temple sent the maximum 12 fencers to NCAA Regionals, while multiple Owls received All-NIWFA and All-Region honors.

Novoseltseva was selected to compete at the NCAA Championships, where she finished 22nd of 24 with six bout wins. The Owls finished 22nd of 24 women’s teams.

Brandeis Head Coaching Experience
Year	Men's Overall Record	Women's Overall Record	Postseason
2021-22	17-14	8-27
2020-21	Canceled (Covid-19)	Canceled (Covid-19)	NCAA Championship Qualifiers (2)
2019-20	17-28	20-19	NCAA Championship Qualifiers (3)
2018-19	17-14	24-19
Total	51-56	52-65

Prior to the inaugural season at Temple, Salmon's four-year tenure leading Brandeis was one of marked success.

In her second season with the Judges, Salmon qualified three fencers for the 2020 NCAA Championships, all first-year students: women's sabre fencers Jessica Morales '23 and Maggie Shealy '23, and men's epeeist Ben Rogak '23, who was selected as an alternate who was chosen to compete before the event was canceled. Morales and Shealy were named Brandeis's first All-Americans for the women since 2003. In addition, Chris Armstrong '20 was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American.

After COVID-19 cut the 2020-21 season short, Salmon's teams had an outstanding 2021-22. Shealy and Tony Escueta '25 each competed in the sabre at the NCAA Championships at Notre Dame, with Shealy placing eighth overall for the highest finish by a Division III woman. Escueta finished 22nd. Shealy was named the United State Fencing Coaches Association National Division III Women's Sabre Fencer of the Year, while Escueta was named the National Division III Men's Sabre and Newcomer of the Year. They, along with Rogak (men's epee), Bronwyn Rothman-Hall '25 (women's epee) and Anthony Rabinkov '25 (men's sabre) all claimed Division III All-America status.

In 2001, she co-founded the Mission Fencing Club in Rocky Point, New York, with her husband Jeff, and has been the head coach there since 2003. Her students have consistently been part of NCAA Championship teams and earned numerous All-America honors. Salmon has also coached members of the U.S. Fencing National team in all three weapons, including a 10^th-place finisher at the 2016 Cadet Women's Foil World Championships.

From 2000 through 2013, she served as head coach at Ward-Melville High School in East Setauket, New York. In her 13 seasons with the Patriots, she coached more than 60 All-Long Island fencers and 42 individual county champions across weapons and genders. At one point in her tenure, she coached WMHS to 12 consecutive undefeated League championships as her teams earned 174 straight wins, the second-longest high school sports winning streak in Long Island history. She was an eight-time Suffolk County Coach of the Year and two-time Long Island Coach of the Year.

Since 2015, Salmon has served as a regional consultant for USA Fencing, helping to build the regional tournament system for the US Fencing Association. She has also served as USA Fencing's Youth Development Chair and as a member of that organization's Tournament Oversight Committee and Athlete Handbook Revision Group. In 2015, Salmon received the USA Fencing Jack Baker Volunteer Service Award. She is currently serving as the technical coaching lead to develop, in coordination with National Team Coaches, a Foundational Fencing Curriculum and online course for USA Fencing.

Collegiately, Salmon was a foil fencer and 1995 graduate of Temple University with a BA in Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education. A team captain in 1993 and 1994, she was a two-time foil All-American. Salmon helped the Owls to three top-three finishes among women's programs at the NCAA National Collegiate Championships, including first place in 1992. The 1992 team was inducted into the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame in October of 2021. Salmon received her MA in Literacy from Dowling College in 2002.