Men's Fencing
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach
- Email:
- sgyore@princeton.edu
- Phone:
- 609-258-9304
Szilvia Gyore is in her 20th season on the fencing coaching staff at Princeton in 2025-26, helping the teams earn a combined 16 Ivy League titles, 16 straight top-10 NCAA team finishes in years the meet was held and Princeton competed, 11 top-four NCAA finishes, and the 2013 NCAA title.
In 2022, Princeton earned its first NCAA individual foil title in Gyore's and Dudas's tenure with Maia Weintraub '25, and in 2023, Mohamed Hamza '23, an Olympic quarterfinalist individually in 2021, made the NCAA final.
Gyore was elevated to associate head coach in 2018.
"I am very happy that we have a full-time coach for all three weapons, an ideal situation for a varsity fencing program. Our fencers get much more individual attention than before and that is the key to success," Princeton head fencing coach Zoltan Dudas said. "Szilvia works with the men’s and women’s teams in the foil. Her experience with fencers ranging from very young to Olympic-level will help her to work from walk-ons to All-America talent."
In her first 19 competitive seasons at Princeton, Gyore has helped the Tiger foils earn 59 NCAA finals berths and 43 All-Ivy League recognitions. Under her tutelage, Princeton foils have earned 30 All-American honors, including Princeton's first four-time All-America men's foilist in Alexander Mills '12. Eve Levin '14 matched the feat two years later, having earned All-America honors in each of her four seasons.
Gyore, a Hungarian native who has trained world-ranked and Olympic fencers in both Hungary and the United States, completes a staff with Dudas and fellow assistant coach Oleg Stetsiv.
With more than a dozen years of club coaching experience, Gyore took 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., Gyore helped 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.
Gyore 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. Gyore now makes her home in North Brunswick, N.J.
