Before 2021, Kamali Thompson was just an Olympic hopeful while pursuing her ambition to become an orthopedic surgeon, OwlSports reports . However, that didn’t keep her off track from the sport of fencing and attempting to get an Olympic gold. The 29-year-old Teaneck, New Jersey, native has been fencing since she was a high school freshman. Yet, she didn’t visualize herself playing sports alongside her scholastic endeavors but things changed once she arrived at Temple University. "I started fencing as a freshman in high school and joined a club as a junior," Thompson said. "I had never considered playing sports in college so at the point that it became an option, I had to find ones that had Fencing." After a visit with Temple’s head fencing instructor, Nikki Franke, and getting her mother’s stamp of approval, Thompson felt confident that she was in the right direction. “[Franke] and my mom hit it off immediately,” she said. “And my mom was telling me that [Temple] would be a great...