Tedd Padgitt – Head Coach/Owner
Tedd Padgitt is the proud owner and operator of the finest fencing studio in San Diego: the Team Touché Fencing Center in Sorrento Valley. A competitive fencer for over 15 years, Padgitt continues to place in the top 32 in the country. Many of his accomplishments include being the 2005 Pacific Coast Foil Champion and…
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Scott Rodgers – Challenged Athletes Coach
In the summer of 1991, Rodgers broke his neck in a diving accident. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. The doctors gave him no chance of walking again and little chance of using his hands. Rodgers never believed that he was destined to live life in a wheelchair. The next four months were spent…
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Rose Forcier- Foil/Sabre Coach
Coach Rose Forcier is a moniteur-level coach after receiving training from the Italian school of coaching. Five years ago, Rose Forcier began fencing for High Tech Middle School in the original Team Touche After School Program. Today she enjoys coaching foil and sabre Team Touche students. Rose travels on the UCSD Women’s Foil Varsity team…
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Jonathan Ho “Turtle”- Junior Coach
Coach “Turtle” is a junior coach here at Team Touche Fencing who runs the youth beginner class and the annual summer camps alongside Coach Sergey & Coach Rose. In 2006, Coach “Turtle” joined the High Tech Middle Men’s Foil Team with the original Team Touche After School Program, eventually rising to become the high school…
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Sergey Riezaiev- Epee/Pentathlon Coach
Coach Sergey is Team Touche’s head epee coach and Team Touche’s head Pentathlon coach. In 2002 he was the Ukrainian Junior National Pentathlete Champion. So naturally, he is an incredibly well-rounded athlete. From epee fencing, to horseback riding, to swimming, Riezaiev can do it all. When he is not working with fencing or pentathlon students…
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Barry Jacobsen – Deadliest Warrior Spartan Coach
Barry Jacobsen is veteran of the US Army Green Berets, serving 8 years on a Special Forces “A Team”. Barry is trained as a scuba diver and diving medical technologist; and is certified as a clinical hyperbaric technologist. Barry has been a medieval combat reenactor for 35 years; and is a Knight and Count within…
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Scott Farrell – Swords of Chivalry Coach
Team Touche’s Chivalry School: Historical Sword Fighting is coached by Scott Farrell, an accomplished historical interpreter and author on various topics of knights, medieval history and chivalry. Scott has worked as an independent scholar of medieval history and combat for more than 30 years, and he now serves as director of the Chivalry Today Educational Program…
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