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Episode Synopsis
Mickey Zeljkovic is a five-time Serbian National Champion as a fencer and a former Paralympic National Head Coach for Kuwait. Now, he runs his own fencing club in the Philadelphia area and has developed multiple club programs for Paralympic fencers on the East Coast. In 2018, Mickey was named head coach of Team USA’s parafencing squad and has managed the qualification efforts for the 2021 Paralympic Games. So we talk about parafencing and how to get started in the sport.
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