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Stephen Kovacs was born on 4 January, 1972 in United States, is an American champion fencer (1972–2022). Discover Stephen Kovacs's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?
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Fencing coach |
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50 years old |
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Capricorn |
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4 January, 1972 |
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4 January |
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| Date of death |
15 January, 2022 |
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Somerset County Jail, Somerville, New Jersey, US |
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United States
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Stephen Kovacs Height, Weight & Measurements
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Stephen Kovacs Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Stephen Kovacs worth at the age of 50 years old? Stephen Kovacs’s income source is mostly from being a successful fencer. He is from United States. We have estimated Stephen Kovacs's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Stephen Matias Kovacs (January 4, 1972 – January 15, 2022) was an American Saber fencer and fencing coach.
He was a three-time NCAA All American for Columbia University, four-time All-Ivy League, and the first fencer to win four consecutive Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships.
As a fencing coach, he then coached at the Pingry School, Princeton Junior School, Stevens Institute of Technology, Duke University, Ridge High School, and private fencing clubs including one that he founded.
In October 2021 he was arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child, and false swearing, and imprisoned in the Somerset County Jail in Somerville, New Jersey.
On October 29, 2021, the United States Center for SafeSport temporarily suspended Kovacs, pending an investigation by it of allegations against him.
On January 15, 2022, Kovacs committed suicide (aged 50) in Somerset County Jail.
Kovacs' hometown was Hampton, in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and he later lived in Clifton, in Passaic County, New Jersey, and in Watchung, in Somerset County, New Jersey.
He attended North Hunterdon High School.
He was coached at the New York Athletic Club by Vasil Etropolski, the 1983 Saber world champion from Bulgaria.
Kovacs then attended Columbia University ('95) in New York City, where he majored in Eastern European History and Economics.
In 1989, Kovacs won the United States Fencing Association (USFA) Under-17 Saber championship, and in 1990 he won the USFA Under-20 (Junior) Saber championship.
There, he fenced for the Columbia Lions fencing team from 1990 to 1994, and was team captain.
He overcame a serious fencing injury, after in 1992 suffering a rupture of his Achilles tendon while lunging during a college tournament.
In 1994 he became the first fencer to win four consecutive Intercollegiate Fencing Association championships, and came in fourth in the NCAA Saber Championship; Kovacs was also an NCAA First Team All American in 1991, 1993, and 1994, and was four-time First Team All-Ivy League (in 1991–94).
In 1994, when he was 22 years old, The New York Times reported that he was thought to have a good shot at making the 1996 US Olympic fencing team.
Columbia presented him with its Outstanding Senior Athlete Award and the George Cointe Award for Sportsmanship and Excellence.
Early in his career Kovacs was a securities trader for Datek Securities/Heartland Securities from 1996 to 1997, Assent LLC from 2008 to 2009, WTS Proprietary Trading Group from 2010 to 2013, and Tradescape/E*TRADE Professional.
From 2007 to 2008 Kovacs taught 6th grade Humanities and began his coaching career by coaching fencing at the Pingry School in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey.
He left to work in business on Wall Street.
In August 2009 Kovacs was named the head men's fencing coach at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey.
The team had a 13–7 record for the season.
At the same time, Kovacs served as an assistant Saber coach at the New York Athletic Club.
In August 2010 Kovacs became an Assistant Fencing Coach at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, a position he held through 2013.
There he mentored three-time NCAA women's Saber champion Becca Ward.
In 2013 he joined the staff of Medeo Fencing Club in Bridgewater, in Somerset County, New Jersey.
In 2013–18, Kovacs was also a fifth grade teacher and taught fencing to girls and boys at the Princeton Junior School, in Princeton, in Mercer County, New Jersey.
In 2018, Kovacs founded and thereafter owned Kaprica United Fencing Academy in Bound Brook, in Somerset County, New Jersey, where he was head coach.
Kovacs was appointed the Ridge High School head boys’ fencing coach by the Bernards Township School District on November 11, 2019, for a salary of $8,542.
The school is in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, in Somerset County, New Jersey.
The boys and girls fencing teams practice together and go to meets together.
The affidavit said that Kovacs assaulted the 16-year-old in May 2019, at a competition in Salt Lake City, Utah that due to its distance from New Jersey required an overnight stay.
It said that she reported that on three occasions in August 2021, Kovacs picked her up at her home and then drove her to a parking lot in Bridgewater to sexually assault her.
In January 2020 the boys team won the overall title in the Cetrullo Tournament, New Jersey's most important regular-season tournament.
He was head coach through February 2021.
A number of fencers on the school team attended the nearby Kaprica Fencing Academy, which Kovacs owned and where he was head coach.
On October 13, 2021, Kovacs was arrested at the Somerset County (New Jersey) Prosecutor’s Office by detectives from the Bridgewater Township Sex Crimes/Child Abuse Unit for allegedly sexually assaulting two teenagers.
His encounters with both teenagers took place in his capacity as a fencing coach, within Bridgewater Township in Somerset County.
A 16-year-old girl reported being sexually assaulted by Kovacs in Bridgewater multiple times in August and September 2021.
An affidavit of probable cause filed by police in support of charges against Kovacs said that he first preyed on teens while on long-distance trips with them for competitions.
