fencing
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School senior Lee Kiefer has qualified for the 2012 U.S. Olympic fencing team. Kiefer’s coach, Amgad Khazbak, who runs the Bluegrass Fencers Club on Keithshire Way, was named the head coach for Olympic women’s foil team; Khazbak is the former national fencing coach for the Egyptian Fencing Federation, as well as an Olympic athlete.
The announcement came after the women’s foil qualification process ended in April. Kiefer, who will turn 18 less than two months before the London Olympics opening ceremony in July, will be the youngest member of U.S. Olympic Team; Kiefer was the youngest individual medalist at the 2011 Senior World Championship and is aiming for an Olympic medal at her first games.