Wellesley College Athletics

Gamil Kaliouby

Head Coach Gamil Kaliouby
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B.S., Ain Shims University (Cairo, Egypt)
M.S., Egypt's Military Academy
13th year of coaching at Wellesley

Gamil Kaliouby enters his 13th season as head fencing coach at Wellesley College in 2007-2008. This year’s team posted a 10-5 record, their best in five years, placed four fencers on Northeast Fencing Conference All-Conference Teams, and had seven qualify for NCAA regional competition.

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 returns to the Wellesley campus, where he coached the fencing team from 1992-97. He was instrumental in Wellesley’s 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 Holy Cross and Boston University, as well as assistant coach 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, in Rome (1960), Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City (1968), as well as in the World Fencing Championships in 1961 and 1971. In the 1964 Tokyo Games, Kaliouby was a quarterfinalist in foil. Outside of Wellesley, Kaliouby’s student Greg Shank was a member 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.