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“Every guy has an individual battle”: ND fencing leaders, former NFL coach discuss team success before Stanford game

By Serena Zacharias · Monday, Oct. 1, 2018

Kvaratskhelia and Massialas began the conversation by discussing how they became involved in fencing. Kvaratskhelia grew up in the Soviet Republic of Georgia and was a member of the Georgian National Foil Team in fencing before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He immigrated to America years later and continued his fencing career by competing and eventually coaching.

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