Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro explained

Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro
Birth Date:	7 October 1954
Birth Place:	Modesto, California, United States
Sport:	Fencing
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Gay Kristine Jacobsen D'Asaro (now Gay MacLellan) is an American Olympic foil fencer.^[1]

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,^[2] 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.^[3] 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 Unpublished thesis, Ph.D. dissertation.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)

See also

• List of American foil fencers
• USFA

External links

• Pan American Games Results
• USFA Hall of Fame Listing

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro Olympic Results . 2011-04-16 . sports-reference.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110811160544/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/gay-dasaro-1.html . 2011-08-11 .
2. Web site: Spartan Women in Sport: Gay MacLellan, ’83 MA Kinesiology – Washington Square: The Stories of San Jose State University . 2023-12-12 . blogs.sjsu.edu.
3. Book: Caroccioli. Tom. Caroccioli. Jerry. Boycott: Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. New Chapter Press. Highland Park, IL. 978-0942257403. 243–253.