Rebecca Schneider joined the Culver Academies fencing program as a head fencing coach in 2008. She is currently working as an assistant fencing coach in foil. She began the art and sport of fencing 17 years ago with the Fencing Illini club in Champaign, IL. To this day she has been coaching, competing, directing and networking with fencing clubs in the US and around the world.  She has competed in foil locally and nationally in a variety of settings from mixed opens to sectionals, and earned three silver medals in 2007-2008. At the end of the season she ranked #1 in her division in the US. She was coached by Bakhyt Abdikulov, worked with Master Zbigniew Czajkowski at the Montreal Coaches Conference in 2005, and was recently certified with the United States Fencing Coaching Association. Her coaching philosophy focuses on experience, encouraging confidence and instilling precision in students that will take then to the next level both on and off the strip.