Temple University Athletics
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| Temple Head Coaching Experience | |||
| Year | Women's Overall Record |
Postseason | |
| 2024-25 | 33-11 | NIWFA Champs., NCAA Championship Qualifiers (1) | |
| 2023-24 | 25-16 | NIWFA Champs., NCAA Championship Qualifiers (2) | |
| 2022-23 | 30-17 | NIWFA Champs., NCAA Championship Qualifiers (1) | |
| Total | 88-44 | ||
Jennie Salmon, just the second head coach in Temple fencing history, is in her fourth year at the helm of the program for the 2025-26 season. A 1995 graduate of Temple, Salmon was a member of the 1992 Women’s Foil National Championship Team, 2x Foil All American and 2x team captain. She was inducted into the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame with her 1992 team in 2020. She returned to North Broad after four years as the head men's and women's fencing coach at Brandeis University, where she was named the 2022 USFCA Men’s and Women’s Division 3 Coach of the Year.
Coach Jennie has a rich background in the sport of fencing. Primarily working with the foil and epee squads, she brings in depth experience in all three weapons to the program. In the Fall of 2025, she was awarded her Maestra de Armes or Master of Fencing in Foil, Epee and Sabre. Her coaching philosophy centers around a determined growth mindset, creativity, differentiation, dedication to personal and collective excellence, and making an impact. She places great attention upon the overall student-athlete experience and the opportunity to be a part of a team to create something greater together than one can create themselves.
In her four seasons at Temple, she has comprised a 124-55 record. In the 22-23 and the 24-25 season, the Temple Team finished with 30 and 33 wins respectively. Only the third and fourth time in program history, 30 or more wins have been achieved. In her first season, the epee squad set a new program record of 34 wins. The Temple foilists achieved an impressive 29-14 record in the 2024-25 season, also setting a new record for squad wins.
In the 25-26 post season, the team finished with a 26-11 dual meet record. The Owls faced a multitude of top 15 teams and earned wins over UPenn, Penn State, Stanford, UCSD, Ohio State and UNC. In the post-season, Temple won its 30th straight Overall Team NIWFA Championships, Salmon’s 4th. Temple also the Foil and Epee Squad Titles along with a Championship Individual Finish in Foil for Senior Natalie Adams-Kim. The team’s 26 wins were the most dual meet victories of any team in the Nation over the regular season. The Owls sent the maximum 12 fencers to NCAA Regionals, where Alexandra Papapetropoulou , Renee Oymann and Anais Wandji advanced to the finals and earned All-Region recognition.
| Brandeis Head Coaching Experience |
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| Year | Men's Overall Record | Women's Overall Record |
Postseason |
| 2021-22 | 17-14 | 8-27 | |
| 2020-21 | Canceled (Covid-19) | Canceled (Covid-19) | NCAA Championship Qualifiers (2) |
| 2019-20 | 17-28 | 20-19 | NCAA Championship Qualifiers (3) |
| 2018-19 | 17-14 | 24-19 | |
| Total | 51-56 | 52-65 | |
Prior to the inaugural season at Temple, Salmon's four-year tenure leading Brandeis was one of marked success.
In her second season with the Judges, Salmon qualified three fencers for the 2020 NCAA Championships, all first-year students: women's sabre fencers Jessica Morales '23 and Maggie Shealy '23, and men's epeeist Ben Rogak '23, who was selected as an alternate who was chosen to compete before the event was canceled. Morales and Shealy were named Brandeis's first All-Americans for the women since 2003. In addition, Chris Armstrong '20 was named a CoSIDA Academic All-American.
After COVID-19 cut the 2020-21 season short, Salmon's teams had an outstanding 2021-22. Shealy and Tony Escueta '25 each competed in the sabre at the NCAA Championships at Notre Dame, with Shealy placing eighth overall for the highest finish by a Division III woman. Escueta finished 22nd. Shealy was named the United State Fencing Coaches Association National Division III Women's Sabre Fencer of the Year, while Escueta was named the National Division III Men's Sabre and Newcomer of the Year. They, along with Rogak (men's epee), Bronwyn Rothman-Hall '25 (women's epee) and Anthony Rabinkov '25 (men's sabre) all claimed Division III All-America status.
In 2001, she co-founded the Mission Fencing Club in Rocky Point, New York, with her husband Jeff, and has been the head coach there since 2003. Her students have consistently been part of NCAA Championship teams and earned numerous All-America honors. Salmon has also coached members of the U.S. Fencing National team in all three weapons, including a 10th-place finisher at the 2016 Cadet Women's Foil World Championships.
From 2000 through 2013, she served as head coach at Ward-Melville High School in East Setauket, New York. In her 13 seasons with the Patriots, she coached more than 60 All-Long Island fencers and 42 individual county champions across weapons and genders. At one point in her tenure, she coached WMHS to 12 consecutive undefeated League championships as her teams earned 174 straight wins, the second-longest high school sports winning streak in Long Island history. She was an eight-time Suffolk County Coach of the Year and two-time Long Island Coach of the Year.
Since 2015, Salmon has served as a regional consultant for USA Fencing, helping to build the regional tournament system for the US Fencing Association. She has also served as USA Fencing's Youth Development Chair and as a member of that organization's Tournament Oversight Committee and Athlete Handbook Revision Group. In 2015, Salmon received the USA Fencing Jack Baker Volunteer Service Award. She is currently serving as the technical coaching lead to develop, in coordination with National Team Coaches, a Foundational Fencing Curriculum and online course for USA Fencing.
Collegiately, Salmon was a foil fencer and 1995 graduate of Temple University with a BA in Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education. A team captain in 1993 and 1994, she was a two-time foil All-American. Salmon helped the Owls to three top-three finishes among women's programs at the NCAA National Collegiate Championships, including first place in 1992. The 1992 team was inducted into the Temple Athletics Hall of Fame in October of 2021. Salmon received her MA in Literacy from Dowling College in 2002.
