Igor Stefanic is entering his 11th year as the Head Coach of the Culver Academies Fencing Team. He led the team to a strong finish in the 2010/11 season in the Great Lakes Fencing Conference (GLFC) with 2 Individual (Desirae Major and John Hayman) and 3 Squad (ME, MS and WE) titles. In addition, Culver Military earned the Men's Overall title for the first time since 1992. Since 2001 when Coach Stefanic started, the team has captured 10 Individual, 11 Squad, and one Overall team titles in the GLFC. In 2011 Desirae Major (WS) became the first under 20 Junior National Champion in Culver history and the first fencer to ever win the title coming from the High School program. Culver is also the only High School fencing program in the country that has had 4 fencers in the top 8 at the Junior Olympics in the last 10 years (Jennifer Sawicki (WS) - 2005; Gene Shmurak (MF) – 2007; Marvin Hargraves (ME) - 2008; Desirae Major (WS) – 2009, 2010, and 2011). In addition, over 100 Culver fencers have qualified and fenced at the Junior Olympics. 25 fencing graduates have enrolled in NCAA fencing programs; 10 have been placed on the Cadet/Junior/ and/or Division I National Point lists; and 2 (George Blackburn IV and Desirae Major) have earned spots on the FIE World Junior point lists.

Before coming to Culver, Stefanic served as the Assistant Coach (foil) at the University of Notre Dame from 1999-2001, where his team earned 2nd place at the NCAA Championship in 2000. He was also the Head Coach at the Mishawaka Fencing Academy. Before he came to Notre Dame, Stefanic coached the Croatian Junior Foil Team and served as Head Coach of the "Mladost" Fencing Club in Zagreb, Croatia. Between 1992-1998, he led his team to win six team and five individual Croatian National Championships.

As a fencer, Stefanic was a member of the Yugoslav Foil National team from 1985-1991, and a member of the Croatian National Team from 1991-1997. He was a two-time Yugoslav, and three-time Croatian National Champion in foil, and fenced in 5 World, 4 European, and 2 Junior World Championships. He was on the FIE World Ranking List from 1992-1995.

Stefanic has also been an official FIE (International Fencing Federation) referee in foil since 1990, and has actively participated as a referee in many international fencing tournaments in Europe and the USA. In both 1998 and 2006, he earned the "Referee of the Year" Award in the NCAA Midwest Fencing Conference, and was the Commissioner of the NCAA Midwest Fencing Conference from 2002-2008.