Zoltan Dudas is in his fifth season as head coach of the Princeton University men's and women's fencing teams in 2010-11.

At the 2010 NCAA Championship, Princeton earned its best finish since 2003 by taking sixth on the strength of a maximum 12 qualifications. Six of those earned All-America honors. During the 2009-10 dual-meet season, Princeton's men's and women's teams combined to win 48 of 54 duals, setting program records for each gender.

In 2009, Dudas helped eight Tigers qualify for the NCAA Championships, then the program's most since 2004. Four fencers, including Susannah Scanlan, Jasjit Bhinder, Graham Wicas and Alexander Mills, earned All-America honors, which gave the Tigers their most All-Americas in a single year since 2006, the year before Dudas took over.

The 2008-09 season also saw the men's team set what was then a program-record 17 dual matches, with the women's team tied what was a program best with 16 victories. Both marks were broken again in 2009-10.

In his first season as Princeton's mentor, seven of Dudas' fencers qualified for the NCAA Championships. Freshman foilist Jocelyn Svengsouk became Dudas' first All-America, finishing 12th. In 2007-08, six Tigers earned national bids.

In all, during Dudas' four seasons leading the program, Princeton's fencers have earned 33 NCAA finals berths and have been recognized as All-Ivy League 24 times. In his work with the Tiger epeeists, Dudas has helped 14 fencers reach the NCAA finals while earning 13 All-Ivy honors. Dudas counts nine All-America honors among the epeeists during his four seasons.

Dudas, a native of Hungary, came to Princeton from Notre Dame, where he was an assistant for five years. Dudas helped guide an Irish fencing team that finished a combined fourth of 29 schools at the 2006 NCAA Championships in his final season. While at Notre Dame, he coached at the Escrime du Lac, a fencing club, where his fencers won three national titles.

A 1992 graduate of Juhasz Gyula College in Hungary, Dudas came to the United States in 2000 after serving as a physical education teacher at both grade school and high school levels for 10 years, first as a student teacher and then as full-time staff. As a physical education teacher at Szechenyi Istvan High School, the handball team he led won the National Handball Championship in 1999, topping more than 250 teams. He also coached fencing at the Szegedi Postas Sport Club from 1985-1999. Once in the U.S., Dudas was a fencing coach at the Saturn Fencing Center in Cleveland, Ohio, from 2000-01 before moving to the Notre Dame, Ind., area. Before becoming a full-time assistant at UND in 2002, he served as a consultant to the Fighting Irish program while heading up the fencing program at the Indiana Fencing Academy in Mishawaka, Ind.

While at UND, Dudas helped direct the men's and women's program to combined team titles in 2003 and 2005. Focusing his tutelage on the foil and epee competitors, the Irish had 29 All-America finishes and 34 NCAA Championships appearances in those disciplines.