Complex sentence: From High School through her early professional life she was also a competitive fencer and fencing coach, placing 6th in women's foil at the 1985 Empire State Games in Syracuse, New York.
Split into simpler sentences: From High School through her early professional life she was also a competitive fencer as well as fencing coach. She placed 6th in women's foil at the 1985 Empire State Games in Syracuse, New York.