Manuel started practicing fencing when he was 7 years old.
Among his accomplishments are:

• Member of the Argentinian National Team, 1970, 1971
  
  
• Bronze Medal, Individual 14 & under Foil, Argentina's National Cup
  
• Silver Medal, Foil, Individual 21 & under Foil, (he was 12 years old), Argentina's National Cup
  
• Bronze Medal, Foil, Individual 21 & under Foil, South-American Games, Uruguay
• Silver Medal, Individual 21& under Foil,
  South-American Games, Brazil

Recent accomplishments are:

• 7th place, Foil, veteran, USFA National Championships, March 2010
• 3rd place, Foil, veteran, USFA Summer National Championship, 2009
• 5th place, Foil, veteran, USFA Summer National Championship, 2008
• 3rd place, Foil, veteran, USFA National Championships, 2006
• 5th place, Foil, veteran, USFA National Championships, 2005
• Gold Medal, Foil, veteran, Sunshine State Games, 2005
• Silver Medal, Epee, veteran, Sunshine State Games, 2005
• 6th place, Foil, veteran, USFA National Championships, 2003

-Ranked #5 in USA 2006-2007 in Men's Foil Vets, #7 in USA 2009-2010.

Head Coach Rafael Suárez, has a long history of competitions.
Among many others, we can mention:

• Sidney 2000 Olympic Individual Foil
• Atlanta 1996 Olympic Individual and Team Foil
  
  
• 2 times Bronze Medal Pan-American Games Individual and Team
  
  
• 3 times Silver Medal Centro American Games Individual, and Team
  
  
• Gold Medal Bolivarian Games Santa Cruz Individual, and Team
  
  
• 3 times Gold Medal in Pan-American Games Individual, and Team
  
  
• Bronze Medal Senior World Cup 1997 Venezuela
  
  
  
• 5th in Senior World Cup 2000 Denmark
• 5th World Championship Cadet, Portugal
• 8th World Championship Junior, Austria
• Gold Medal Junior World Cup Hamburg

Recent accomplishments are:

• 3rd place, World Cup Margarita,
  June 2010
  

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Maria started fencing when she was 9 years old and quickly became a member of the Hungarian National team. Later she came to the United States on a fencing scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.

• Alternate for 1988 Olympic Games
  
  
• Ranked top 16th at the Senior Women's Foil World Ranking
• Junior World Cup finals
  (i.e., Bochum, Germany; Ethampes, France)
• Senior B-cup Finals
  (i.e., 1st in Zurich, Switzerland; final in Salzburg, Austria)
• 6th World Championship Junior, Athens, Greece
• 1st (team) and 6th (individual) Socialist Countries
  Championship, Budapest, Hungary
  
  
• NCAA Div 1 Champion (Notre Dame team, 1994)
• Captain of the Notre Dame Fencing Team, MVP (1995)
• NCAA Div1 Foil Runner-up (individual 1995), First Team All-American, Nominated for Scholastica-All America,
  Voted MVP of the 1995 NCAAs by Coaches and Fencers
• NAC Div 1 Final (1995)
• 2 times Mid-West Champion (1994, 1995)
• Penn State Open Champion (1995)
• Notre Dame Record Holder
  (98% career winning percentage)
• Sunshine State Champion (1998 women and open foil)
  
  
• Assistant Coach at Notre Dame (1995-1996)
• Midwest, NCAA, USFA Referee (while at college)