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Kamara Latoya James (November 23, 1984 – September 20, 2014) was an American Olympic épée fencer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Coroner’s Office seeking family of Modesto woman )〕 James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, into a single-parent household. Her family moved to Jamaica, Queens, New York, when she was 10. She was given a full fencing scholarship to The Dwight School, an independent college preparatory school. She then attended Princeton University on a full academic scholarship. James began fencing at age 11, through the Peter Westbrook Foundation. In 2003, she won a bronze medal at the junior world championships. She competed in the women's individual épée event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.〔 James died at age 29, in September 2014. ==Early life== James, who was Black, was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1984, into a single-parent household.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Blacks Bound for Olympic Glory )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympian Kamara James Passes Away at Age 29 )〕 Her parents separated before she was born; she met her father only once during her childhood. Her mother, Sandra Fernandez,〔 remarried to Delano Fernandez when James was 7. The family moved to Jamaica, Queens, New York, three years later.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Olympic fencer Kamara James dead at 29 )〕 She attended Public School 3 in Greenwich Village.〔 James' stepfather died of brain cancer two years later, in 1996.〔〔 James was given a full fencing scholarship to The Dwight School, an independent college preparatory school located on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where annual tuition was $28,000.〔〔 She scored a 1,510 on her SAT.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Leon Powe )〕 She then attended Princeton University on a full academic scholarship, majoring in religious studies.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Kamara James Remembered )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kamara James」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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