Coach Bill Murphy began his fencing career at Georgia State University in 1982. In 1994 he received his Basic Foil Instructor certificate from Mt. Alex Beguinet at the U. S. Fencing Association Coaches College. In 1999 he received Moniteur D’ Escrime (Foil, Epee, Sabre) from the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association and in 2003 he received his Prevot d’ Armes from USFCA (Foil, Epee, Sabre). He is currently Prévot d’Armes certified.
As an Armourer, Bill served as the Sports Equipment Manager for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games fencing competition management team. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games he served as a weapon control coordinator for the fencing competition management team. Bill served as the Team Armourer for the 2004 (Athens) and 2008 (Beijing) U. S. Paralympic Fencing Teams. In 1994, at the request of the Atlanta Paralympic Organizing Committee, Bill started the first wheelchair fencing program in America at Atlanta’s Shepherd Center. He has attended numerous regional, national and international fencing tournaments in a technical role.
Bill is passionate about the sport of fencing and in his retirement he enjoys giving private fencing lessons and sharing his knowledge of the sport with members of the Atlanta International Fencing Foundation
