Michael began fencing at the age of 12 in his native city, Khmelnitsky. His coach, Yury Mazur, helped him to become a Ukrainian National Championship Silver medalist in 2005, and a member of the Junior National Epee Team and European Championship finalist in team event in 2004. Throughout his national team career, Michael has competed in numerous cadet and junior World Cups and European Championships.
Michael was offered an athletic scholarship to St. John’s University where he earned All-American Athlete honors in 2008, Academic All-Star honors in 2006-2007, and served as team captain and team manager, under Coach Yuri Gelman.
Michael has been coaching in the NY metropolitan area since 2006. While in college, he was a coach at several fencing clubs and high schools in New York City and Long Island.
In 2010, Michael graduated and opened the New York Fencing Academy, which has quickly become a center for excellence in epee with one of the strongest competitive programs in the country. Michael has produced many top ranked fencers including Olympic Champion 2020 and World Champion 2022 Romain Cannone, Cadet and Junior World Championships medalist Skyler Liverant, many National and World Cup Champions and members of USA, French and Greek National Teams (Alan Temiryaev 2017,2018; Skyler Liverant 2019,2021, 2022; Ethan Kushnerik 2020; Jaclyn Khrol 2021; Romain Cannone 2013-present; Jack and Peter Kambeseles 2019-2022.) 
His young athletes have won multiple Super Youth Circuits and earned hundreds of SYC finalist medals. New York Fencing Academy many times was named “Fencing Club of the Year” and was ranked the #1 club in the US for youth men’s and women’s epee based on national podium points.
Michael Mokretsov is head coach, founder, and owner of the New York Fencing Academy.
NOTABLE STUDENTS
International Medalists:
- Romain Cannone
- Gold – Senior World Championship Individual and Team, Cairo 2022
- Gold – Individual Epee, 2020 Olympics, Tokyo 2021
- Gold – Junior Team European Championship, Plodiv 2017
- Bronze – Junior World Cup, Espoo 2017
- Gold – Junior Team World Cup Championship, Udine 2016
- Bronze – Junior Team World Cup, Riga 2016
- Gold – Junior Team European Championship, Maribor 2015
- Silver – Junior Team World Championship, Tashkent 2015
- Bronze – Junior World Cup, Basel 2015
- Gold – Cadet World Cup, Bratislava 2014
- France Junior National Team Member, 2015-2017
- Skyler Liverant
- Silver – Junior World Championship Teams, Dubai 2022
- Bronze – Cadet World Championship, Cairo 2021
- Top 8 – Junior World Cup, Luxembourg 2021
- Bronze – Cadet World Cup, Budapest 2019
- Silver – Cadet Team World Cup, Budapest 2019
- Gold – Cadet Team World Cup, Grenoble 2019
- USA World Team Member 2019, 2021
- Alan Temiryaev
- Silver – Cadet World Cup, Espoo 2017
- Silver – Cadet Team World Cup, Grenoble 2016
- Bronze – Cadet World Cup, Grenoble 2016
- Bronze – Cadet World Cup, Klagenfurt 2016
- Bronze – Cadet Team World Cup, Klagenfurt 2016
- USA World Team Member 2017-2018
- Anton Chmut
- Gold – Cadet Team World Cup, Bratislava 2017
- Bronze – Cadet World Cup, Bratislava 2017
- Bronze – Cadet Team World Cup, Klagenfurt 2016
- Jaclyn Khrol
- Silver – Cadet Team World Cup, Bratislava 2019
- Top 8 – Junior World Championships, Cairo 2021
- Bronze – Cadet Team World Cup, Espoo 2017
- USA World Team Member 2021
- Ethan Kusnerik
- Silver – Cadet Team World Cup, Bratislava 2019
- USA World Team Member 2020
- Anna Lanzman
- Silver – Team Maccabiah Games 2017
National Gold Medalists:
- Alan Temiryaev – Junior Junior Olympics 2017, Cadet July Challenge 2017 & 2016
- Jaclyn Khrol – Junior Team Summer Nationals 2021, Y12 Summer Nationals 2016, Y12 NAC 2016, Y10 NAC 2014, Y14 Team NAC 2017, Y14 Team NAC 2016
- Liza Zigalo – Junior Team Summer Nationals 2021
- Alexandra Rakhovski – Y12 Summer Nationals 2021
- Dylan Kats – Y12 NAC 2021
- Romain Cannone – Junior NAC 2014, Cadet NAC 2013
- Caralina Khrol – Y10 NAC 2016, Y14 Team NAC 2017, Y14 Team NAC 2016
- Ethan Kushnerik – Y12 NAC 2016, Y14 Team NAC 2017
- Skyler Liverant – Y10 NAC 2015, Y14 Team NAC 2017
- Ian Goldfine – Y10 NAC 2016
- Nadia Gaberkorn – Y14 Team NAC 2017
- Jordan Liverant – Y14 Team NAC 2017
- Mark Dolgonos – Y14 Team NAC 2017
- Jack Kambeseles – Y14 Team NAC 2017
- Anna Lanzman – Y14 Team NAC 2016
- Melanie Dolgonos – Y14 Team NAC 2016
- Sam Bekker – Classification NAC 2018
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