Julia Jones-Pugliese was an American national champion foil and epee fencer and fencing coach.
16 Facts About Julia Jones-Pugliese
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Julia Jones-Pugliese was born Julia Jones, in New York, New York, and was Jewish.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese graduated New York University with a BS in education in 1930.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese had a daughter, Penelope Shaw, an instructor in modern dance and yoga at Hunter College; and two sons, Patri, who taught physics at Harvard University, and Paul, a cartographer for Time magazine.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese qualified for and was a member of the US Olympic Women's Foil Fencing Team for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but did not compete.
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In 1990 at the age of 82 Jones-Pugliese won a silver medal for finishing second in the round-robin tournament of senior women ages 40 or older competing in senior epee in the United States Fencing Association national championship.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese was still competing in 1992 at age 84, a year before she died.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese retired for close to two decades to raise a family.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese was the fencing team's coach from 1956 until her death in 1993 at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York system.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese coached the Hunter team to a NIWFA national championship in 1970, and was named NIFWA Coach of the Year.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese was an assistant professor in Hunter College's Department of Health and Physical Education.
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At the 1970 World University Games in Turin, Italy, Julia Jones-Pugliese was the first woman appointed to coach an international US fencing team.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese became the first woman coach of a US Olympic fencing team.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese was named assistant coach to both the men's and women's US fencing teams in 1977, and head coach in 1981.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese was United States women's and men's fencing coach at the 1977 and 1981 Maccabiah Games.
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Julia Jones-Pugliese died of a heart attack in Manhattan in 1993 at age 84.