Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro

Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro

Personal information
Born	(1954-10-07) 7 October 1954 (age 70) Modesto, California, United States
Sport
Sport	Fencing
Medal record Women's fencing Representing  United States Pan American Games 1979 San Juan Team foil USFA National Championships 1973 Under 20 Individual Foil 1974 Individual Foil 1978 Individual Foil

Gay Kristine Jacobsen D'Asaro (now Gay MacLellan) is an American Olympic foil fencer.^[1]

She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1972 to 1974 and fenced as a member of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos. She later transferred and fenced for San Jose State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She holds a record for two National Titles, and was a 1-rated Referee. She was inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame in 2004. As a child, she lived in Ripon, California,^[2] and later, lived in Ashland, Oregon, where she taught private fencing lessons. She was a student of coach Michael D'Asaro Sr., whom she later married. As of 2006, she no longer uses last name D'Asaro, and now goes by her married name: Gay (Jacobsen) MacLellan.