Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro

{{short description|American fencer}}

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| birth_place = Modesto, California, United States

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{{MedalBronze|1979 San Juan|Team foil}}

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{{MedalGold|1973|Under 20 Individual Foil}}

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Gay Kristine Jacobsen D'Asaro (now Gay MacLellan) is an American Olympic foil fencer.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/gay-dasaro-1.html |title=Gay Jacobsen D'Asaro Olympic Results |accessdate=2011-04-16 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811160544/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/da/gay-dasaro-1.html |archivedate=2011-08-11 }}

She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1972 to 1974 and fenced as a member of the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos. She later transferred and fenced for San Jose State University in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She holds a record for two National Titles, and was a 1-rated Referee. She was inducted into the USFA Hall of Fame in 2004. As a child, she lived in Ripon, California,{{Cite web |title=Spartan Women in Sport: Gay MacLellan, ’83 MA Kinesiology – Washington Square: The Stories of San Jose State University |url=https://blogs.sjsu.edu/wsq/2018/03/06/spartan-women-in-sport-gay-maclellan-83-ma-kinesiology-fencer-2/ |access-date=2023-12-12 |website=blogs.sjsu.edu}} and later, lived in Ashland, Oregon, where she taught private fencing lessons. She was a student of coach Michael D'Asaro Sr., whom she later married. As of 2006, she no longer uses last name D'Asaro, and now goes by her married name: Gay (Jacobsen) MacLellan.