Sergey Isayenko
Sergey Isayenko
Saber Coach
Sergey Isayenko has a wealth of competitive experience and 19 years of coaching experience. He received a Masters degree at the National University of Physical Education and Sports in Kiev, Ukraine, and Economics degree at St. John’s University in New York.
Sergey started fencing at the age of 8 in Ukraine. Throughout his fencing career, Sergey was a two-time National Champion, two-time bronze medalist at Junior World Championships as part of the Ukrainian national team, and the NCAA Champion.
During his coaching career Sergey produced national and international results on cadet, junior and senior level, and had several students that made USA cadet and junior national teams. He served as USA men’s saber national coach for 2009, 2010, and 2011 junior/cadet world championships. Sergey was elected as USA Youth Olympic Games head coach in Singapore where he led team USA to earn a bronze medal.
Sergey coached at the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.
As of October 2023, he is an assistant saber coach at St John’s University.
Notable Students:
Jenna Shoman (Harvard University)
Champion Y14 NAC x 2
Silver medal at Cadet World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria 2021
Bronze medal at Cadet World Cup in Meylan, France 2022
Silver medal at Junior World Cup in Segovia, Spain 2022
Champion– Cadet -Junior Olympics 2022
Silver medal – Cadet – April NAC 2022
Bronze medal – Cadet – July Challenge 2022
Top 8 Cadet World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria 2022
Champion – Cadet – December NAC 2022
Bronze medal – Div 1 – December NAC 2022
Champion– Cadet World Cup in Eslingen, Germany 2022
Bronze medal – Div 1 – January NAC 2023
Bronze medal – Junior World Cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2023
Champion – Junior – Junior Olympics 2023
USA Cadet National team 2023
Bronze medal – Cadet World Championships, Plovdiv, Bulgaria 2023
Champion – Junior – July challenge; Nov NAC 2023
Silver medal – Senior – Summer Nationals 2023
Silver medal -Senior – October NAC 2023
Silver medal – Senior – Jan NAC 2024
Silver medal – Junior World Cup, Segovia, Spain 2024
Jordan Silberzweig (Yale University)
Bronze medal – Y10 – March NAC 2014
Top 8 – Y12 – Summer Nationals 2014
Top 8 -Y10 – Summer Nationals 2015
Top 8 – Y10 – March NAC 2016
Bronze medal – Cadet -May NAC 2021
Top 8 Cadet World Cup, Sofia, Bulgaria 2021
Bronze medal – Cadet World Cup, Meylan, France 2022
Champion– Junior, April NAC 2022
Silver medal – Junior, July Challenge 2022
Champion– Junior, Jan NAC 2023
Top 8 – Junior World Cup, Dourdan, France 2023
Top 8 – Junior, Apr NAC 2023
Top 8 – Div 1, Summer nationals 2023
Champion– Div 1, Jan NAC 2024
Top 8 – Junior, Jan NAC 2024
Mathew Linsky (Harvard University)
Champion- Cadet – June NAC 2021
Silver medal – Cadet – May NAC 2021
Top 8 – Cadet- Nov NAC 2021
Top 8 – Cadet – Summer Nationals 2021
Top 8 at Cadet World Cup in Sofia, Bulgaria 2021
Champion – Cadet World Cup in Bucharest, Romania 2022
Bronze medal – Junior, Summer Nationals, 2022
Silver medal – Junior, November NAC 2023
Top 8 – Junior World Cup in Madrid, Spain 2023
Aria Bevaqua
Bronze medal – Cadet, Junior Olympics, 2022
Top 8 – Cadet, Summer Nationals 2022
Bronze medal – Y14, Summer Nationals 2022
Silver medal – cadets, Dec NAC 2022
Top 8 – Cadet, March NAC 2023
Top 8 – Cadet, Nov NAC 2023
Top 8 – Cadet World Cup, Godollo, Hungary 2023
Silver medal – Cadet World Cup, Eislingen, Germany 2023
Zach Shoman
Top 8 – Y14 – Oct NAC 2021
Top 8 – div 3 – summer nationals 2021
Top 8 – Cadet, March NAC 2023
Top 8 – Cadet, summer nationals 2023
Isabela Carvalho (Cornell University)
Top 8 – Y14 – summer nationals 2019
Top 8 – Junior, Dec NAC 2022
Champion – Junior – Brazilian Nationals 2023
Bronze medal – Senior – Brazilian Nationals 2022; 2023
Brazil Junior National Team 2023
Charlotte Young
Champion – Y10 – Summer nationals 2021
Top 8 – Y12 – March NAC 2022
Champion – Y12 – March NAC 2023
Top 8 -Y12 – Summer Nationals 2023
Top 8 – Cadet – October NAC 2023
Top 8 – Y14- November NAC 2023
Rei Nemorin
Top 8 – Y10, March NAC 2023
Top 8 -Y10 – Summer nationals 2023
Luca Berman (Boston College)
Top 8 – Junior – Nov NAC 2019
Champion – Maccabiah Games 2022
Bronze medal – Junior – Jan NAC 2024
Ethan Frishman (Upenn University)
Champion – Y10, March NAC 2016
Top 8 – Y10 – November NAC 2016
Silver medal – Y12 March NAC 2018
Silver medal – Y14- November NAC 2018
Top 8 – Y14 – March NAC 2019
Silver medal – Y14 – November NAC 2019
Champion – Maccabiah Games 2019
Silver medal – Cadet – Baltimore SJCC 2020
Champion – Junior – Baltimore SJCC 2020
George Bivins (Notre Dame University)
Top 16 in Dormagen Junior World Cup
Champion – Junior – June NAC 2021
Top 8 – div 1 – June NAC 2021
Bronze medal – Junior – Junior Olympics 2020
Top 8 – juniors- January NAC 2019,2020
Top 8 -juniors- November NAC 2019
Top 8 – Cadet World Cup, Konin, Poland 2017
Bronze medal – Cadet World Cup, Eislingen, Germany 2017
Will Spear (Columbia University)
Champion – Y10, Y12, Y14
Champion – Cadet – Nationals 2009
Champion – Cadet – Junior Olympics 2010
Champion- Junior – Junior Olympics 2010
USA Cadet National Team 2009, 2010
USA Junior National Team 2011
9th place at Cadet World Championships, Baku 2010
Pan-American Junior Champion, Mexico 2010
Bronze medalist at Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, Team event 2010
Eddie Chin (Princeton University)
USA Junior National Team 2016
Bronze NCAA Championships Individual 2016
8th NCAA Championships Individual 2015
3x 2015 Top 16 Junior World Cup in Budapest, Sosnowiec, Plovdiv
Top 8 Junior World Cup in Sosnowiec, Poland 2013
2x Top 8 Div 1 NAC
2x Bronze Junior NACs, 5x Top 8 Junior NACs
Champion – Junior Olympics 2014
Silver medal – Cadet World Cup in Konin, Poland 2013
Bronze medal – Cadet World Cup in Godollo, Hungary 2013
Top 8 Cadet World Cup in Moscow, Russia 2013
Jason Oh (Harvard University)
Bronze medal – Y14 Youth World Cup , Wroclaw, Poland 2014
Bronze Medal -Cadets -Junior Olympics 2016
Bronze Medal – Cadet World Cup, Konin, Poland 2015
Top 8 – Junior – January NAC 2017
Silver Medal – Junior- November NAC 2016
Top 8 – Phoenix Junior World Cup 2017
Champion – Division II National Championships 2015
Silver medal – Div 3 NAC 2014
Ashley Yang (Cornell University)
Top 16 – Div 1 – Dec NAC 2022
Top 8 – Y12 – March NAC 2019
Top 8 – Y12 -National Championship 2019
Champion – Youth 10 – Summer nationals 2017
Jessica Whang (Duke University)
Champion -Y12 – Summer National 2011
Silver Medal -Y12 – Youth World Cup, Wroclaw, Poland 2011
Champion -Y12 – Portland NAC 2011
Medalist at Summer Nationals 2009, 2010
Medalist at cadet and junior NACs 2009-2014
Rebecca Whang (Brown University)
Top 8 – Junior World Cup Sosnowiec, Poland 2019
Gold Medal Team- Junior Olympics 2018
Y14 Women’s Saber
Champion- March 2017 NAC
Bronze Medal – July 2017 NAC
Bronze Medal – July 2016 NAC
Y12 Women’s Saber
Top 8 – April 2015 NAC
Top 8– March 2014 NAC
Y10 Women’s Saber
Champion – April 2013 NAC
Bronze Medal – July 2012 NAC
Stephen Kim (Duke University)
Champion ACC Individual 2021
5th place – NCAA Championships 2021
Peak national ranking: 19th in Seniors, 7th in Juniors (2020-2021)
4-time U.S. Cadet & Junior Travel Team (2017-2020)
2020 Senior North American Cup Team Champion
3-time Top 16 finisher at Senior North American Cups
Champion – Y10 NAC 2013
Champion -Y10- Youth World Cup, Wroclaw, Poland 2013
Finished every season in the last ten years ranked in the National Top 10 in age category.
Ben Stone (Duke University)
Medaled nationally at every age group from Y10 to Seniors
Top 8 – Div 1 – June NAC 2021
Maccabiah Team World Champion, Israel 2017
Silver medal- juniors – Junior Olympics 2019
Top 8 – juniors – November NAC 2017
Top 8 – cadets – Junior Olympics 2016
Top 8 – Cadet World Cup, Konin, Poland 2015
Top 8 -Y14 – NAC 2013
Top 8 – Y12 – NAC 2012
Bronze medal – Y12 – NAC 2011
Top 8 – Y10 – NAC 2010
Mina Chioldi (Tufts University)
Champion – Div 3 – March NAC 2019
Champion – Div 2 – Oct NAC 2019
Top 8- Cadets – November NAC 2019
Top 8 – Div 1A Summer Nationals 2021
Charlston Kim (Yale University)
Top 8 – Juniors – July Challenge 2018
Champion – Div1A – Summer Nationals 2018
Champion – Div1A Summer Nationals 2019
Tariq Karam (St John’s University—> Fashion Institute of Technology)
Top 8 – cadet NAC 2018
Bronze medal – Div 1 championships 2019
Top 16 – Junior World Cup, Sochi, Russia 2019
Bronze medal – juniors – Junior Olympics 2020
Nitika Subramanian (Tufts University)
Champion -Div 2 – Summer Nationals 2022