What comes to mind when you think of a fencer? Maybe it’s the scene from the Parent Trap when Lindsay Lohan battled her long-lost twin at summer camp. Maybe it’s Zorro or another famous sword swinger.
But does a 6-foot-4-inch black male with bleach blonde hair and tattoo covered arms cross your mind? That’s Miles Chamley-Watson and he is out to change the game.
Chamley-Watson, the London-born Penn State alumnus, is not an ordinary fencer and has no desire to be.
“Ninety percent of the fencing athletes don’t look like me,” Chamley-Watson, 26, said.