Meet the Coaches

Gerhard Guevarra – Coach and Owner
Fencing History and Bio:
Gerhard began fencing in his freshman year at UNC-Chapel Hill. During his sophomore year, he joined the UNC-Chapel Hill Varsity Fencing team and began training under Fencing Master Dr. Ron C. Miller.
Gerhard has been coaching since 1999 with numerous success with his students including Junior Olympic Qualifiers and Regional Youth Circuit Finalists. He continues to compete nationally but has fenced internationally, competing in the 2006 Vancouver World Cup and has won several North Carolina Division Championships.
Gerhard has a BA in Physical Education, Exercise and Sports Science. He has been a middle school Business Technology teacher at Weldon City Schools and a Recreation Center Director for Cumberland County Parks and Recreation. He has also been an Army Reservist, completing his 8 year commitment in 2003. He is currently a School Liaison Officer for Fort Liberty and the Department of the Army.
He now lives in Fayetteville with his wife (Jennifer), sons (Gabriel and Liam) and daughters (Grace and Isabelle). Gabriel and Isabelle has also started to fence with the All-American Fencing Academy and both compete nationally.
Gerhard teaches the youth foil classes and the teen and adult foil and epee classes.

Gabriel Guevarra – Coach
Fencing History and Bio:
Gabriel has been fencing since he was 7 years old. He competes at the local, regional, and national level. He has been coaching during the All-American Fencing Academy summer camps, providing private lessons, and youth classes.
Gabriel is now a college student, currently attending Fayetteville Technical Community College and plans to return to East Carolina University majoring in Biology.

David Hadler – Coach
Fencing History and Bio:
David’s father used to fence, but he got really interested when his mom used to give him Three Musketeer candy bars for lunch at school. Then he found out there’s actually a sport where you sword fight and he thought that was cool. He was a Division I NCAA Fencer for the University of California at San Diego.
He also competed for Chinese Taipei, finished 24th of 69 Men’s Foil competitors at the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan. Some of his accomplishments include being All-American for placing 11th at NCAA Championships, Western Fencing Conference Foil Champion, gold in the 2013 and 2014 Pan American Championships, silver in the team 2014 Junior Olympics, and bronze in the 2016 US National Championships.
David has a BA on International Business for the University of San Diego. He is currently an Army Officer stationed at Fort Liberty.