Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro

Gay Kristine Jacobsen D'Asaro (now Gay MacLellan) is an American Olympic foil fencer.

She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1972 to 1974 and fenced as a member of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos. She later transferred and fenced for San Jose State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She holds a record for two National Titles, and was a 1-rated Referee. She was inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame in 2004. As a child, she lived in Ripon, California, and later, lived in Ashland, Oregon, where she taught private fencing lessons. She was a student of coach Michael D'Asaro Sr., whom she later married. As of 2006, she no longer uses last name D'Asaro, and now goes by her married name: Gay (Jacobsen) MacLellan.

Accomplishments 1973 "Under 20" National Champion 1973 World Championships 1974 U.S. Women's Foil National Champion 1975 NIWFA Pan American Team Member 1976 U.S. Olympic Team Foil Fencer 1978 U.S. Women's Foil National Champion 1979 NIWFA Pan American Team Member (won Bronze medal) 1980 U.S. Olympic Team Foil Fencer Because of Jimmy Carter's ban on the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games, D'Asaro and the rest of her Olympic Fencing team did not compete in the games. She was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead.

Honors UC Santa Barbara Hall of Fame (Fencing 1972–74) 2001-2005 Appointed to USFA Fencing Officials Commission 2002 Olympian Procession at Oregon Sports Authority 2004 Inducted into United States Fencing Association Hall of Fame

Academic work A History of the Amateur Fencers League of America. D'Asaro, G.K.J. 1983. A history of the Amateur Fencers League of America. Unpublished thesis, Ph.D. dissertation. (U860 .D37, San Jose State University)