| Bradley Baker |
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Assistant Coach/Epee & Sabre
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| Experience:
4th Season
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| Alma Mater:
Johns Hopkins '98
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Bradley Baker enters his fourth year as the epée/sabre coach for Temple University women's fencing. Under Baker's leadership, the Owls epée squad finished the 2006-2007 season with a 25-5 season while the sabre squad went 22-8.
Baker came to Temple after working as the head coach of the University of Massachusetts club fencing team for four years. During his time at Massachusetts he doubled the size of the club team and in 2002 was named "Coach of the Year" by the Northeast Fencing Conference. With Baker at the helm, UMass won the 6-weapon and the Women's National Championship at the 2004 USA Collegiate Fencing Club Championships. In 2003 his team won the 6-Weapon and the Men's National Club Championships.
Baker came to Temple with impressive coaching and competitive experience. Currently nationally ranked as both a referee and a competitor, Baker is certified as a level four coach in sabre and foil and level three in epée through the U.S. Fencing Association's "National Coaches College" at the Olympic Training Center.
As a competitor, Baker took first place in the Division IA Men's Sabre Championship at the 2005 United States Fencing National Championships. As a referee, he was recently named to U.S. Fencing's "Fencing Officials Commission".
Baker is a 1998 graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he completed a Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences double major. While at JHU he fenced epée for four years on the men's varsity team.
