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For almost two decades, Cummings was head coach of the girls’ fencing team at Ramapo High School, leading his squads to 10 state titles and multiple district titles.  In 1995 he earned the NJSIAA Coach of the Year Award and more recently was named the Star Ledger Coach of the Decade for the 1990s. Through the years many of his athletes have gone on to win several high school interscholastic champions and Under-19 and Under-20 championships.

He has coached numerous athletes at international competitions including the Senior World Sabre finalist in 1999, who finished third in 2000, coached the Women’s Pan-American Junior Epee Champion. He has coached several men’s and women’s foil and epee junior and senior national champions and finalists.

Cummings’ involvement with fencing remains multi-faceted.  He serves on several committees and is involved in many fencing associations. He is a representative from the Fencing Officials Commission to teach and rate referees in the United States. He is the State Committee representative for women’s fencing – NJSIAA. Member of Sale Santelli, a fencing club originating in New York City now located in Englewood, NJ.

His experience as an athlete includes Junior Olympian in 1964 and he was a member of the Junior World Team in 1965.  He has competed in the World Cup in foil and epee and was the U.S. Fencing Association National Epee Team Champion in 1985, he was a finalist in other years

Cummings only stop in the collegiate coaching ranks before coming to Fairleigh Dickinson was with the Rutgers’ Scarlet Knights as an assistant coach in the 1972-73 season.

He graduated from Bloomfield College in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in economics.

A native of Denville, NJ, he and his wife, Wendy, reside in Fair Lawn.  The couple has one daughter, Candice, and one son, Willy.

Danilenko spent 23 years coaching in Kazakhstan and the United States, producing 14 Masters of Sport in the former Soviet Union. He served as assistant coach for the Kazakhstan’s men’s national team from 1985-91 and the head coach of the women’s squad from 1992-95. Danilenko was an assistant coach at Columbia and Millburn high schools, leading Millburn to a boys state championship in 1998. He is an international category referee and also a member of the New Jersey Scholastic Coaches Association.

Danilenko earned the title of Master of Sport as a competitor, the highest classification in sport in the former Soviet Union. He attended the Kazakh Institute of Physical Education and received his master’s degree in physical education.

Danilenko resides in Edison, N.J.