AM: All season, certain people on our team have had injuries that were always worrisome. However, we had a great medical person with us.

KK: Does it ever create any conflict at all when you probably outrank the medical person who is traveling with you?

AM: No because I don’t want to be involved in that. Sometimes he’ll ask me my opinion, but that’s his specialty, sports injuries.

KK: How did your team do?

Alexander Massialas (right), winner of the silver medal in the individual men’s foil at the Rio Olympics, with Ann Marsh-Senic.

AM: We won four medals, which I think was a fantastic result. We got two silver medals and two bronze medals. I’m looking forward to Tokyo. I’m like, “Wow, we can win even more medals.”

KK: After proving to yourself that you can, I think it makes it easier on yourself in the future. I have to ask a difficult question. Does the captain get a medal?

AM: No. The captains don’t get a medal, just the athletes. What would I do with a medal?! Those are our medals though because that’s our team. I’m sure that’s how most people that are involved with the team feel.

KK: What do you see yourself doing in the future with fencing and/or emergency medicine? What are your aspirations?

AM: I’m happy to work my clinical shifts. But to be honest with you, I’m pretty likely to be doing the captain role until 2020. That’s my focus right now for the next four years.

KK: How much of a time commitment does it take to be the captain of a team like this?

AM: This year, it actually took a lot of commitment because I became captain in the last year of the quadrennium. I had to travel with the teams I wasn’t as familiar with. I went, during the eight months before the Olympics, to eight World Cups. They are mostly in Europe or in South America, so I have to take off four days from work or five days from work. Going forward, I have four years to spread it out over instead of eight months. I would think that just my main trips would be going to the world championships each year, which is about a week or a week and a half in the summer, and then potentially going to one or two World Cups a year, ramping it up a little bit more as it gets closer to Tokyo.