En garde! The Air Force is thrusting and parrying its way to the top of the U.S. Fencing Association’s national rankings. Not only is 2003 Academy grad Seth Kelsey the top men’s epee fencer in the nation, but three current cadets are in the top 60: senior Peter French (#5), junior Daniel Trapani (#47) and sophomore Ben Rinaldi (#57). Kelsey, now a reservist, has competed in the last two Summer Olympics. In women’s epee, sophomore Simone Barrette is tied for 21st in senior women’s epee and is also ranked 17th in junior women’s epee. Freshman Heather Nelson currently is ranked…
Author Tom Spoth
The Army had Joe DiMaggio and Pat Tillman, among others. The Navy: Roger Staubach, David Robinson, Bob Feller, and Yogi Berra, to name a few. Ted Williams served in the Marines. But the Air Force? Its top athletes apparently have been NFL players Chad Hennings and Bryce Fisher, who aren’t exactly household names. 2nd Lt. Greg Flynn, a 2009 Air Force Academy grad, is making a bid to change that. Flynn, an All-American hockey player last year, is pulling double duty as a contract manager at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., and a rookie defenseman for the Lowell Devils of…
What do Jerry Rice and former Air Force chief of staff T. Michael Moseley have in common? They’ve both been on the same team as Joe Montana. Moseley isn’t catching passes, though, he’s serving on the board of directors of a Florida technology company. (Although maybe Montana will break out the old pigskin at a board meeting or two.) Read more on the Air Force Times FlightLines blog.
