Stevens Institute of Technology Athletics

Attila Lukacs returns for his 16th season as an assistant coach with the women’s fencing team.

Lukacs saw one of his charges, Brianna Nieradka, defend her Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference (EWFC) Individual Championship epee title in 2012-13 and another, Sienna Batzil, also smash the single-season program record for epee victories as the team matched its 2011-12 total of nine fencers advancing to the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals.  A program-record four fencers earned All-NIWFA honors, including a record two First Team selections.Julie McEldoon won the Epee championship in 2016 and Stevens brought home the team championship trophy after 15 years of JHU domination.

Lukacs has been with the squad through its record-setting 2011-12 season (27 wins) and 5 Division III National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association (NWFA) Championship titles over the last seven years.  He also helped the 2009-10 squad’s epee fencers to post the most collective wins and the three highest individual wins totals in program history.

Lukacs has also worked with numerous national and international top fencers in his club Rockland Fencers Club in Nyack, NY. Prior to his coaching career Lukacs was a member of the Hungarian National team. As a competitor he has earned numerous National Championship and World Cup top finishes. A pair of third-place finishes at the Junior World Cups in 2001, first in Budapest and then in Nimes, France. He helped guide his team to a third-place finish at the Junior European Championship in Portugal in 1999 and finished in ninth place overall at the Cadet World Championship in Venezuela in 1998.

Lukacs has earned two degrees (2004, 2006) in Engineering Management and Security Technology Engineering from Donat Banki Mechanical Engineering College in Budapest.