Charlotte Fencing Academy

Specialties

Premier training in the Olympic sport of Fencing!

History

Established in 2002.

With an ambitious agenda, an open mind to new methods, and an open door to all who want to learn, in 2002, Brian Toomey opened the Charlotte Fencing Academy.

Since opening, the academy’s fencers have earned over 20 national medals, the most in North Carolina over that time period. Brian’s fencers have also won divisional and southeastern championships. He also has had several fencers make various national points lists.

Meet the Business Owner

Brian T.

Business Owner

After many years of martial arts training and study, Brian took an elective at UNC-​Charlotte. It was fencing 101. He was enthralled with the sport from the first day. That was over 15 years ago.

Brian has extensive experience in competing on the local, regional, and national level, and his students have also succeeded on both the national and the NCAA collegiate level. Of his students, 6 have reached a USFA «A» rating, the highest attainable in épée, and 1 in sabre. Multiple have attained their «B» and «C» ratings in all three disciplines and have been nationally ranked at the cadet (Under 17) and junior (Under 20) levels.