Coach Scott Tundermann has been fencing for over ten years and coaching for six. He began coaching at Smith College in 1997. In three years, he built the program from a handful of fencers, competing individually in club and "junior varsity" events, to a thriving team with over twenty members, competing actively in three New England conferences.
   Tundermann was nominated for 1998-1999 Coach of the Year in the Northeast Fencing Conference in recognition of the strong growth of the Smith program and his leadership in the development of women’s sabre. In 2000, Smith won the Top Club Team award at the New England Collegiate Championships; in 2001, the sabre squad finished third after MIT and Boston College, and the Smith team bested varsity rival Wellesley College for the fourth consecutive time. Smith and finished 7th overall.
   In his own fencing career, Mr. Tundermann continues to win medals in all three weapons at USFA events, and has competed internationally in sabre. At the 2000 Summer Nationals, Tundermann finished 6th in Div III men's epee and 15th in Div II. He was a medal-winning fencer as the captain of the Hampshire College fencing club, coaching during the head coach’s year abroad and staying on as assistant coach after graduating. In 1998, he studied fencing and instruction with Hungarian and Polish national masters. More recently, he earned "top of the class" honors in both Sabre 1 and Epee 1 at the USFA’s Coaching Development Program in 2001 and completed Sabre 2 and Epee 2 in 2002.