Coach Phillip joins us from Poland, where he had an impressive career as a high-level international foil fencer. A Junior World Championship bronze medalist, he brings a deep passion for the sport and a strong foundation in athletic development, holding both a BA and MA in Physical Education from Gdańsk University.
Khalil Thompson | (Olympian) (Saber)
Tim Morehouse Fencing Club is proud to welcome Olympian Khalil Thompson to our coaching team for the 2025–2026 season! Khalil will bring his Olympic experience and passion for teaching to students across all three TMFC locations—coaching in Port Chester on Mondays and Wednesdays, at our Manhattan West Side location on Tuesdays, and at our East Side location on Thursdays and Fridays. In addition, he will be on the road with our athletes, supporting TMFC fencers at competitions throughout the season.
Khalil Thompson is from Teaneck, NJ. He first picked up a blade at age nine through the Peter Westbrook Foundation, inspired by his sister and drawn to the fast-paced art of saber.
He was an Olympian for Team USA at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics in addition to being a multi-time senior world team member. Khalil’s was alsonmember of the gold-medal-winning U.S. Pan American Championships team and the U.S. Senior World Championship team in 2019.
Slava Grigoriev | Olympian and Head Foil Coach
Slava Grigoriev is a two time Olympian and recognized as one of the top coaches in the United States. His passion and dedication to the sport of fencing has helped to create numerous national and international level athletes. His students have won Cadet and Junior World Championships as well as Pan American and Asian Championships.
Slava is dedicated to helping his students gain self-confidence, coordination, focus and precision as well as to develop a winning attitude through good sportsmanship in order to realize their full potential as athletes.
His students have also had incredible NCAA success with former and current students being recruited for and fencing at some of the nation’s top colleges and universities including Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Stanford, NYU, Notre Dame, Vassar, Brandeis and Rice.
Mohamed Amer | Olympian and Coach (Saber)
One of our newest coaches, Mohamed Amer brings his Olympic experience to the TMFC Saber coaching team. He competed in the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Games and is currently training for the 2024 Paris Games while continuing to work with students.
Mohamed hails from Egypt, where he started fencing at 12 years old. Along with his Olympic credentials, he is a two-time African Zonal Champion and where he has also won multiple silver and bronze medals. He is also a Junior World bronze medalist as well as the FIE number one ranked Cadet Saber fencer in 2014. In 2015 he became the first African to hold the FIE Junior number one ranking.
Coach Amer looks forward to passing his knowledge gained from training with one of the best Saber coaches in the world on to his students at Tim Morehouse Fencing Club.