Stevens Institute of Technology Women's Fencing

Linda Vollkommer-Lynch is in her 48th season as the head coach of the Stevens women’s fencing program. She is the lone head coach of the women’s fencing team in the history of the program and has compiled a career record of 615-310 heading into the 2020-21 season. Vollkommer-Lynch is also the longest-standing head coach in Stevens history. In her career at Stevens, Vollkommer-Lynch has led the Ducks to finish as the top Division III school National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association (NIWFA) Championships seven times, five Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference team titles (EWFC) and two trips to the NCAA DIII Championships. Additionally, she was named NJCAD Coach of the Decade for the 1990s.  1984: NCAA Northeast Regional Fourth Place – 12th Place at NCAA Championships  1982: NCAA Northeast Regional Champions – Seventh Place at NCAA Championships  1982: ToyKen Yee – 14th Place overall at NCAA Championships  18 Total First Team All-NIWFA National Team selections  2017-18: Epee Team Champions  2016-17: Foil Team Champions  2015-16: Epee Team Champions  2015-16: Foil Team Champions  2015-16: Sabre Team Champions  2014-15: Foil Team Champions  2012-13: Epee Team Champions  2011-12: Epee Team Champions  2010-11: Epee Team Champions  1993-94: Coach of the Year  1983-84: Coach of the Year  2019-20: Coaching Staff of the Year 2017-18: Coaching Staff of the Year  2016-17: Team Champions  2015-16: Team Champions 2014-15: Team Champions 2011-12: Coaching Staff of the Year 2003-04: Co-Coach of the Year  2002-03: Co-Coach of the Year  2001-02: Team Champions  2001-02: Coach of the Year  2000-01: Team Champions  2000-01: Coach of the Year  Six EWFC Women of the Year: 2017-18: Abigail Kaye 2014-15: Sienna Batzli 2013-14: Briana Nieradka 2012-13: Juliet Turalski 2008-09: Laura Sodon 2007-08: Natalia Chabebe  10 Epee Fencers of the Year: 2017-18: Amanda Choy 2016-17: Amanda Choy 2015-16: Julie McEldoon 2012-13: Briana Nieradka 2011-12: Briana Nieradka 2004-05: Andrea Chimel 2001-02: Andrea Chimel 1999-00: Rosie Reyes-Esquivel Bauer 1998-99: Leslie Tyrie 10 Foil Fencers of the Year 2017-18: Abigail Kaye 2016-17: Abigail Kaye 2014-15: Abigail Kaye 2011-12: Alexis Clyburn 2002-03: Rensie Punsal 2001-02: Jennifer Hsiao 2000-01: Samantha Bruno 1998-99: Samantha Bruno 1997-98: Jennifer Garner 1996-97: Jennifer Garner Three Sabre Fencers of the Year 2018-19: Kiera Barnes 2014-15: Zoe To 2001-02: Gaetana Barba 21 Consecutive years with a player being named to the NIWFA All-Academic Team  2008: Apryl Webb – Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award  2006: Apryl Webb – Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award  2006: Judith Generoso – Third Team CoSIDA Academic All-District  1995: Angie Hankins – Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars Award  In total, Vollkommer-Lynch has produced 23 EWFC Fencers of the Year since inception of the conference in 1996 In the past 10 years, she has coached a total of nine teams to NIWFA Championships across all three weapons  Under Vollkommer-Lynch, six athletes have been named to the Stevens Athletics Hall of Fame  She has been named conference Coach of the Year nine times in her career while also being named the NJCAD Coach of the Decade in the 1990s  In 2019-20, Stevens set a new program record for victories for the third straight year with 34. The Ducks also set a program record for consecutive wins with 21 straight bout victories. She also coached ToyKen Yee, who advanced to the NCAA National Championships in 1982 and finished in 14th place individually  As a fencer, Vollkommer-Lynch won the 1983 New Jersey State Championship  She also participated in the national Sports Festival in 1981 and 1982 and was the finalist in the first Garden State Games in 1983.  Additionally, she competed in the US Women’s Fencing Olympic trails in 1984  She earned a B.A. degree in Physical Education from New Jersey City University in 1970  Vollkommer-Lynch was inducted of the Hudson County Hall of Fame in 2000 and the New Jersey State Hall of Fame in 1985 

Attila Lukacs returns for his 16th season as an assistant coach with the women’s fencing team. Lukacs saw one of his charges, Brianna Nieradka, defend her Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference (EWFC) Individual Championship epee title in 2012-13 and another, Sienna Batzil, also smash the single-season program record for epee victories as the team matched its 2011-12 total of nine fencers advancing to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals.  A program-record four fencers earned All-NIWFA honors, including a record two First Team selections.Julie McEldoon won the Epee championship in 2016 and Stevens brought home the team championship trophy after 15 years of JHU domination. Lukacs has been with the squad through its record-setting 2011-12 season (27 wins) and 5 Division III National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association (NWFA) Championship titles over the last seven years.  He also helped the 2009-10 squad’s epee fencers to post the most collective wins and the three highest individual wins totals in program history. Lukacs has also worked with numerous national and international top fencers in his club Rockland Fencers Club in Nyack, NY. Prior to his coaching career Lukacs was a member of the Hungarian National team. As a competitor he has earned numerous National Championship and World Cup top finishes. A pair of third-place finishes at the Junior World Cups in 2001, first in Budapest and then in Nimes, France. He helped guide his team to a third-place finish at the Junior European Championship in Portugal in 1999 and finished in ninth place overall at the Cadet World Championship in Venezuela in 1998. Lukacs has earned two degrees (2004, 2006) in Engineering Management and Security Technology Engineering from Donat Banki Mechanical Engineering College in Budapest.