Fresh off medaling at the 2006 Junior Olympics and anchoring the Long Island Girl's Scholastic fencing team to a gold medal at the Empire State Games, Great Neck's Stephanie Aiuto has been selected to US women's sabre squad fencing at the Junior World Cup in Odessa, Ukraine. Currently ranked 12th in the country in Cadet (under 17 years) Women's Sabre by the United States Fencing Association, Stephanie will also be traveling to Cadet World Cups in Poland, Hungry and France in the next few months.

"I'm really glad I've been training so hard because it's finally paying off," Aiuto declared, "Now I get to travel around the world and fence the best fencers from other countries." Stephanie trains at the New York Fencers Club and her coaches are Sergey Isayenko and Yury Gelman.