Head Coach Gamil Kaliouby 
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B.S., Ain Shims University (Cairo, Egypt)
M.S., Egypt's Military Academy
14th year of coaching at Wellesley
Gamil Kaliouby enters his 14th season as head fencing coach at Wellesley College in 2008-2009.
Kaliouby’s 2007-08 squad won the New England Championship in Foil and took second overall -- the team’s best result in fifteen years. The Blue also qualified seven fencers for NCAA Regionals.
Kaliouby returns to the Wellesley campus, where he coached the fencing team from 1992-97. He was instrumental in Wellesley’s qualifying for the 1994 and 1995 NCAA Northeast Regional Championships and in the development of Heidi Chang, the 1995 NCAA Epee Runner-Up and NCAA Most Outstanding Fencer.
Kaliouby has also served as head coach at Holy Cross and Boston University, as well as assistant coach at Harvard. Outside of the college arena, he has coached at both the Boston Fencing Club and the Academy of Fencing.
A world-renowned fencer in all three weapons, Kaliouby won the foil gold medal in the 1959 Mediterranean games and took fourth place in sabre at the event in 1971. He was the runner-up at the Military World Championships in foil in both 1961 and 1965 and was the foil gold medal winner at the Berlin International Championships in 1966. Kaliouby has also competed in three Olympics, in Rome (1960), Tokyo (1964) and Mexico City (1968), as well as in the World Fencing Championships in 1961 and 1971. In the 1964 Tokyo Games, he was a quarterfinalist in foil. Outside of Wellesley, Kaliouby’s student Greg Chang was a member of the fourth-place Olympic foil team in Athens.
A member of the United States Fencing Coaches Association, Kaliouby holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Ain Shims University in Cairo, Egypt as well as a Master’s degree in military service from the Military Academy, also in Cairo. He is an internationally rated director in foil (Class A) and epee (Class B). Additionally, while at Wellesley, he served as a member of the NCAA Northeast Regional Advisory Committee for men’s and women’s fencing from 1993-95.