{"id":689,"date":"2020-09-11T23:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.newjerseyfencing.org\/?p=689"},"modified":"2020-11-11T00:00:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T00:00:19","slug":"meet-jorge-gana-chairman-of-usa-fencing-nj-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Meet Jorge Gana, Chairman of USA Fencing-NJ Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the lead up to World Fencing Day, USA Fencing is celebrating our Life Members, their dedication to the sport and their role in the <a tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/usafencingfamily?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZVs-COx7cOxmmg2e9xfJ1tYTHkUbHNkQidYnI-t2ZE459g0v1pgtyxzs2XchPf_f0SMhQ2AE3SPfY-MjaQ-wAgIoQ2OsFom9uCtQ2qhBFIiZCZgoZ2BmYa37GIQniMAQMPpPbDT2ohbhKjhL4wU9qG-rN8Wxz2Z9nmQdN848yN4Nw&amp;__tn__=*NK-y-R\">#USAFencingFamily<\/a>.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/test.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/test.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-3-905x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meet Jorge Gana:\u00a0 Walking on to his college fencing team at Johns Hopkins University, Jorge Gana quickly became passionate about fencing. Although he had no prior experience in the sport, Gana became a team captain and won the individual University Athletic Association Championship and Temple Open in men\u2019s epee in 1991, on his way to a top-10 senior national ranking. Now involved in fencing for more than 30 years, he is the chair of the New Jersey Division, a certified referee and a volunteer assistant coach at Christian Brothers Academy High School. He even still fences when he has the time.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Fencing has become a part of the Gana family. Gana and his wife have seven children, two of which are Life members. Gana describes that purchasing a Life membership was a great option to reflect his commitment to the sport, and was an investment for his kids, who also found a strong passion for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"http:\/\/test.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/119026549_10158841042254948_161347529605129757_o-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/119026549_10158841042254948_161347529605129757_o-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/119026549_10158841042254948_161347529605129757_o-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/119026549_10158841042254948_161347529605129757_o-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/119026549_10158841042254948_161347529605129757_o.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the Life membership, visit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usafencing.org\/page\/show\/698114-individual-memberships?fbclid=IwAR0kuUgc07YzYRU8sSfFZ3DYnuavK5aUhMjfZUAGeqhcCJEQXUBsdEaVQF4\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.usafencing.org\/&#8230;\/698114-individual-memberships<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in the lead up to World Fencing Day, USA Fencing is celebrating our Life Members, their dedication to the sport and their role in the #USAFencingFamily.\u00a0\u00a0 Meet Jorge Gana:\u00a0 Walking on to his college fencing team at Johns Hopkins University, Jorge Gana quickly became passionate about fencing. Although he had no prior experience&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/?p=689\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newjerseyfencing.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}