Julia Jones Pugliese

Julia Jones-Pugliese (May 9, 1909 – March 6, 1993)

Jones married Anthony Pugliese, a sculptor and painter who designed the NIWFA competition medal awards (depicting a silhouette of her lunging), which are presented in her name and which serve as the NIWFA logo, and who also designed the logo for Brooklyn College; he died in 1953. After her marriage, she moved to Alabama during World War II, returning to New York in 1945. She had a daughter, Penelope Shaw, an instructor in modern dance and yoga at Hunter College; and two sons, Patri, who taught physics at Harvard University, and Paul, a cartographer for Time magazine. Jones was deemed ineligible to compete in the Olympics because she had accepted an offer to be a fencing coach at NYU, and therefore was considered a professional athlete for being paid to teach others about fencing.

In 1990 at the age of 82 Jones-Pugliese won a silver medal for finishing second in the round-robin tournament of senior women ages 40 or older competing in senior épée in the United States Fencing Association national championship.

National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association In 1928 Jones co-founded, with Dorothy Hafner and Elizabeth Ross, the (United States) Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association—later known as the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (the IWFA, and later, NIWFA). The association, whose membership grew from 4 to 79 colleges, conducts America's oldest continuous intercollegiate championship competition for women in any sport.

Coaching career Jones-Pugliese had a 60-year career as a fencing coach.

From 1932 to 1938 she was coach of the NYU women's fencing team—the first woman to coach a collegiate fencing team.

1992: NIFWA Coach of the Year. 2002: International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame "Pillar of Achievement" United States Fencing Association Hall of Honor Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame New York Sports Hall of Fame Hunter College Hall of Fame The Team Medals and Individual Foil Champion trophy for the NIWFA are named after Julia Jones (under her maiden name), and fashioned in her likeness.