Jennie Salmon is the head coach of Temple University's fencing program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and entered the 2025-26 season in her fourth year leading the Owls. She is only the second head coach in program history and returned to Temple after four seasons as head men's and women's fencing coach at Brandeis, where she was named the 2022 United States Fencing Coaches Association Division III Men's and Women's Coach of the Year. At Temple, she has worked primarily with the foil and epee groups while overseeing the full program, and in fall 2025 she earned the Maestra de Armes, or Master of Fencing, designation in foil, epee, and sabre.
Temple posted a 124-55 record across her first four seasons. The team reached 30 wins in both 2022-23 and 2024-25, marking only the third and fourth 30-win seasons in school history. In her first year, the epee squad set a program record with 34 victories, and the foil unit established another standard by going 29-14 in 2024-25. In 2025-26, Temple finished 26-11 in dual meets, recorded wins over Penn, Penn State, Stanford, UC San Diego, Ohio State, and North Carolina, and won its 30th consecutive overall NIWFA championship, Salmon's fourth with the program. The Owls also captured the foil and epee squad titles, Natalie Adams-Kim won the individual foil championship, and Temple sent all 12 possible qualifiers to NCAA Regionals. Alexandra Papapetropoulou, Renee Oymann, and Anais Wandji advanced to the regional finals and earned All-Region recognition.
