Overview

• Ivan Lee, a former U.S. Olympian and Long Island University fencing coach, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sex offenses involving a female fencer he coached in 2023.
• The Kings County Criminal Court vacated Lee’s conditional plea to forcible touching after he completed a court-ordered treatment program, but his guilty plea to harassment in the second degree remains.
• In a separate Nassau County case, Lee was sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to enroll in a sex-offender treatment program after pleading guilty to sexual abuse and forcible touching.
• Protective orders bar Lee from contacting the victim for two years in one case and six years in the other, reflecting the emotional and psychological toll on the victim, who described feeling fear and pain after the incidents.
• Lee, who resigned as USA Fencing Board Chair in 2023, has been stripped of his Hall of Fame membership and banned for life by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, ending his coaching career.