Princeton University Athletics
Szilvia Voros Hired as Assistant Fencing Coach
November 09, 2006 | Men's Fencing, Women's Fencing
Princeton head men's and women's fencing coach Zoltan Dudas has announced the hiring of his second assistant coach, Szilvia Voros.
"I am very happy that we will now have a full-time coach for all three weapons, an ideal situation for a varsity fencing program. Our fencers will get much more individual attention than before and that is the key to success," Dudas said. "Szilvia will work with men's and women's team in the foil. Her experience with fencers ranging from very young to Olympic-level will help her to work from walk-ons to All-American talent."
Voros, a Hungarian native who has trained world-ranked and Olympic fencers in both Hungary and the United States, completes a staff with Dudas and first assistant Hristo Hristov as the Tigers begin their 2006-07 seasons.
"I believe in fencing's value to young people. It helps them develop focus and endurance, promotes physical and mental health, teaches people how to win and how to lose gracefully, and that hard work earns results," Voros said. "It's exciting to be at Princeton and to have the opportunity to take excellent students and develop the tools that they will use for life."
With over a dozen years of club coaching experience, Voros will take on her first collegiate position with Princeton. After coaching in clubs in Hungary, she came to the United States in 2000, coaching at Riverdale Country School, The Dwight School and the Peter Westbrook Foundation, an organization founded by the six-time U.S. Olympian to serve inner-city youth, before taking her most recent position at the New Jersey Fencing Alliance in 2005.
From 1992 until she relocated to the U.S., Voros directed the developmental program at the MTK Sport Club in Budapest for Hungarian national women's foil coach Antal Solti. She was then recruited to come to the U.S. to coach at the prestigious New York City Fencers Club. There, she producted four national foil champions and several other top-eight ranked fencers.
Voros is a 1995 graduate of Semmelweis University in Hungary, where she received her bachelor's degree in fencing instruction, did post-graduate work in human kinesiology and recently completed a master's degree in physical education and sport sciences. Voros now makes her home in Colonia, N.J.