Gamil Kaliouby

B.S., Ain Shims University (Cairo Egypt)
M.S., Egypt's Military Academy

Gamil Kaliouby enters his eleventh season and sixth year back as head fencing coach at Wellesley College this season after a five-year absence. Kaliouby led the team to a 7-6 overall record in 2005-06 and had seven fencers qualify and compete in the NCAA Northeast Regional Championships this winter and had junior epee fencer Sarah Abraham named to the First-Team Northeast All-Conference Team.

Kaliouby returned to the Wellesley campus, where he coached the fencing team from 1992-97. He was instrumental in Wellesley qualifying for the 1994 and 1995 NCAA Northeast Regional Championships and in the development of Heidi Chang, the 1995 NCAA Epee Runner-Up and NCAA Most Outstanding Fencer.

Kaliouby has also served as head coach at such NCAA member institutions as Holy Cross and Boston University, as well as assistant at Harvard. Outside of the college arena, he has coached at both the Boston Fencing Club and the Academy of Fencing.

A world-renowned fencer in all three weapons, Kaliouby has competed in three Summer Olympics, including Rome (1960), Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City (1968), as well as the World Fencing Championships in 1961 and 1971. In the 1964 Tokyo Games, Kaliouby was a quarterfinalist in foil. As a coach outside of Wellesley, Kaliouby's student, Greg Shank, was part of the fourth-place Olympic foil team in Athens.

A member of the United States Fencing Coaches Association, Kaliouby holds a bachelor's degree in law from Ain Shims University in Cairo, Egypt as well as a Master's degree in military service from the Military Academy, also in Cairo. He is an internationally-rated director in foil (Class A) and epee (Class B). Additionally, while at Wellesley, he served as a member of the NCAA Northeast Regional Advisory Committee for men's and women's fencing from 1993-95.