Bob Cottingham
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Orange, New Jersey, United States
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| Born | April 16, 1966 Orange, New Jersey, United States |
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| Sport | Fencing |
Bob Cottingham (born April 16, 1966) is an American fencer who competed in the sabre events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics.[1]
Raised in Orange, New Jersey playing football and lacrosse, Cottingham got into fencing as a high school student at Montclair Kimberley Academy.[2]
He fenced for the Columbia Lions fencing team. A four-time All-American in fencing at Columbia University, Cottingham went on to receive a J.D. from Rutgers University and now heads a business consulting firm, Sabre88.[3]
He is also heavily involved with the Peter Westbrook Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to exposing New York City youths to fencing.[3]
In November 2012, he was named as a 2013 recipient of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award, presented each year to six distinguished former student-athletes on the 25th anniversary of the end of their college sports careers.[3]
