Tim Morehouse
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Morehouse in 2008
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29 July 1978 New York City, New York |
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| Weapon(s) | sabre | ||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | ||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | ||||||||||||
| National coach(es) | Yury Gelman | ||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | archive | ||||||||||||
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Timothy Frank "Tim" Morehouse (born July 29, 1978) is an American fencer who won a Silver Medal competing in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Morehouse is coached by Yury Gelman. He is the founder of the Fencing in Schools foundation.
Morehouse is the son of Eloise and John Morehouse. He grew up in the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City. He originally took up fencing at Riverdale Country School in order to be excused from gym class. In high school, he played on the Riverdale Country School's baseball team all four years and was a member of the cross country running team for one year. He was the fencing team's captain and most valuable player during his junior and senior years at the school.
Morehouse received a bachelor's degree from Brandeis University in 2000, majoring in History. He was awarded a masters degree in Teaching from Pace University in 2003.
His maternal grandmother was a Jewish immigrant who escaped Nazi Germany in the 1930s; she later joined the Quakers. Morehouse was raised with a "mixture" of religious traditions. He spoke in an interview before the 2012 Olympics about how his "sense of being Jewish" is based on the experiences of his maternal grandmother, and that he plans to participate in the 2013 Maccabiah Games, an international Jewish athletic event held in Israel every four years.
Morehouse won a Silver Medal competing in the men's sabre as a member of the United States fencing team, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He is a two-time individual U.S. National Champion (2010 and 2011) and was the number-one-ranked U.S. men's sabre fencer from 2008-2011. He trains with Yury Gelman at the Manhattan Fencing Center, and at Bodhizone Human Performance and Sports Physical Therapy in New York City.
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