Fencing scholars | Kent Sport
Fencing Scholar
Agathe-Rose Ginod
Academic course: Ecology and Conservation
Hometown: Bordeaux, France
Nominated sport (and position if a team sport): Fencing Women's 1st Team Captain
Best sporting achievement/personal best:
My best sporting achievement is being regional champion twice in a row in France. In the UK my personal achievement is to be in the top 40 in GB fencing intermediate ranking.
What is your Sporting or Scholarship Goal for the 2026/27 Season?
Get in the Top 90 on the Women Senior fencer ranking. Get two podiums in Women Senior Opens.
Fencing Scholar
Ben Alison
Academic course: PhD Computer Science
Hometown: Canterbury, UK
Nominated sport (and position if a team sport): Fencing
Best sporting achievement/personal best:
2nd place at the X-Systra Challenge.
Who is your inspiration or can you provide an inspiring quote?
Good results come from years of hard work.
Fencing Scholar
Lou Chatenet
Academic course: Law - International and European Law
Hometown: France
Nominated sport (and position if a team sport): Fencing
Best sporting achievement/personal best:
- Nominated at the Kent sport awards
- Top10 in Sheffield BUCS national (9th)
- Top10 at the Welsh Open 2025 (10th)
- 1st at the Invicta open in Women senior Sabreur - awarded the best Kent Fencer title as well
- 2nd at the Kent Championships 2026 ranked 58th in women’s senior and 43rd in Under 23
What is your Sporting or Scholarship Goal for the 2026/27 Season?
improve my results mainly by doing a podium at a national competition.
Wheelchair Fencing Scholar
Oliver Faulkner
Academic course: Computer Science with a year in industry
Hometown: Edinburgh, UK
Nominated sport (and position if a team sport): Wheelchair Fencing
Best sporting achievement/personal best:
Winning gold at the 2025 British Para Fencing National Championship in Cat B.
Who is your inspiration or can you provide an inspiring quote?
“I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives.” -RJ Palacio
Fencing Scholar
Toby Mitchell
Academic course: Biochemistry
Hometown: Harpenden, UK
Nominated sport (and position if a team sport): Fencing (Sabre) Men's 1s Anchor
Best sporting achievement/personal best:
My best sporting achievement has been placing 18th out of 60 competitors in the International X-Systra University challenge in Paris last year. While at the same event also anchoring a men’s Sabre team finishing in 8th place.
Who is your inspiration or can you provide an inspiring quote?
My fencing inspiration is Aron Szilagyi. He is always cool under pressure and able to produce some killer parries.
My favourite inspirational quote comes from the Super Bowl winning American Football coach Vince Lombardi who said “Winners never quit and Quitters never win.”
