Learn about our Girls & Womens Fencing Class at Durkan Fencing Academy

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Durkan FemaLe Fencer recrutied to Cornell University. Our Female Fencing students have also attended: Princeton, columbia, Steven’s Institute of Technology, NYU, Sacred heart and JOhns Hopkins, VASSAR, St JOhn’s and Hunter college.

Durkan FemaLe Fencer recrutied to Cornell University. Our Female Fencing students have also attended: Princeton, columbia, Steven’s Institute of Technology, NYU, Sacred heart and JOhns Hopkins, VASSAR, St JOhn’s and Hunter college.

We are developing young women into the leaders of tomorrow, who can take on challenges with confidence. The World is changing and more and more young adults will be evaluated on their character and life experiences, rather than cognitive measures of success.

Real success is developing champions in life for our world, win or lose.

Winning does not always equal success. All across America and around the world, we have a crisis in the win-at-all-cost cultures that we have created. In our schools, in our businesses, in politics, winning at all cost has become acceptable. As a society, we honor the people at the top of the pyramid. We effusively applaud those people who win championships and elections and awards. But sadly, quite often, those same people are leaving their institutions as damaged human beings. Sadly, with straight A's, kids are leaving school damaged. With awards and medals, athletes often leave their teams damaged, emotionally, mentally, not just physically. And with huge profits, employees often leave their companies damaged. We have become so hyperfocused on that end result, and when the end result is a win, the human component of how we got there often gets swept under the proverbial rug, and so does the damage.

As parents, as coaches, as leaders, we can no longer lead from a place where winning is our only metric of success, where our ego sits center stage, because it has been proven that that process produces broken human beings. And I emphatically know that it is absolutely possible to produce and train champions in life in every single walk of life without compromising the human spirit.

— Valorie Kondos Field, Head Coach of UCLA Women’s Gymnastics Team

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