Sherraine Schalm (formerly Sherraine Schalm-MacKay, born June 21, 1975
at Brooks, Alberta) is a top-ranked Canadian
Olympic épée fencer, World
Cup medal winner, elementary school teacher and author. She is a
graduate of the University of Ottawa. Schalm won the bronze medal at
the 2005 world championships.
Schalm has earned the best ever
results for any Canadian woman fencer at the world championships, the
Olympic Games (18th at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens) and is a
four-time medallist at the Pan American Games.
She defended Mairuth Sarsfield's novel No Crystal Stair in Canada Reads 2005.
Schalm published a memoir, Running With Swords (under the name Sherraine MacKay), in 2005.