One year ago Alexander Massialas was interning at an engineering firm near Civic Center. On Friday, he'll be standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the greatest athletes in the world
Around this time last year, Alexander Massialas was working as an intern at MHC Engineers, a mechanical-engineering firm headquartered in an unremarkable three-story SOMA office building near Civic Center.
Since then, he’s captured three Olympic medals — bronze in the team foil event in Rio De Janeiro in 2016 and again in 2021 in Tokyo, and a silver in the individual foil in 2016. Alexander Massialas attended Stanford on a fencing scholarship, and years later helped save the university’s fencing program from budget cuts.
MHC hired Massialas in the fall of 2022. For the next year, in between his rigid training schedule and national and international fencing tournaments, he worked in the office full-time three days per week. “One of my co-workers who heard about him said ‘Oh my God! An Olympian is going to be working with us!’” Lui said “I was like, ‘What? An Olympian?’”But it didn’t take long for Massialas to immerse himself into the office’s culture and just become another engineer at the firm, those who worked with him say.
“He blended right in,” said Eiki Or, a partner at the firm and Massialas’ direct supervisor when he worked there. “He had a very fun and outgoing personality. He just got along with everybody immediately.” It might come as a shock to those on the outside to learn that the Olympian didn’t win the competition. But Massialas said he hadn’t played since college and had to pull an upset against one of the favorites in the semifinals to even make it to the championship match.
“It takes a certain amount of focus to do any kind of work, and he has that kind of focus,” Or said. “Give him a task and he will put his full effort behind it ... It might not be his No. 1 passion, but he was certainly good at it.”
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