found: African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Westbrook, Peter; Peter Jonathan Westbrook; athletic coach/manager, olympic medalist, organization founder/official, philanthropist; born 16 April 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States; awarded an athletic scholarship to attend New York University, graduated with BS (1975); earned the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship in the saber event (1973); won U.S. Fencing Association national championship (1974); continued training and competing, named to the 1976 Olympic team; became the first American to win a fencing medal in twenty-four years, Olympic Games, Los Angeles (1984); founded the Peter Westbrook Foundation (1991); established a training facility in New York City)
