CFFA update for January 11

CFFA update for January 11
The NCFL held its first event of 2015 yesterday at Kestrel Heights High School.  Hoggard sent a team of Ryan, Michael, and Natalie.  They went 1-3, gathering strength as they went through the day.  Many thanks to Nick for coaching the Hoggard team.  CFFA sent a team of Emma G., Harry, and Will; who went 3-2.  They are all junior high schoolers fencing primarily high school fencers, so it was a good showing.
We are getting back to normal as far as practice.  The UNCW folks probably won’t be in on Wednesday until the 28th, but I will hang around this week in case someone wants to some in for some extra work.  Class at camp Lejeune will have to be finished by 2000 this Friday because Wallace Creek closes early due to the MLK Day holiday.
The

17th is our first adult event of the New Year.  With this one we are
bringing back the one touch epee event in addition to the open foil and
epee.  All of our spring events are now up on askfred, so start getting
signed up.  There isn’t much to compete with on many of our weekends, so
if we can get our folks signed up we can probably attract out of town
fencers.  If it looks like there will not be anyone competing, people
will stay home.  Right now the epee for the 17th looks to be solid B event, but the foilists need to get themselves signed in so we have more bodies and ranks.

The

18th is a homeschool event.  I have permission to hold it aboard Camp
Lejeune..  In addition to the homeschool teams, I am going to try to
have
a meet with women’s foil teams and mixed epee teams in the morning. 
The epee and women’s foil would start about 11 am and the homeschool
will be at 1 pm. These would all be for high school age and
below fencers and you would need a full uniform.  We will loan you
knickers (if we have them in your size) and underarm protectors.  No
cost to fence and we can always make composite teams.  I will need to
know who would be driving so you can get a pass to get on base.  I think we will have some epee teams and individual women foilists from Lejeune.  I would hope we can put together some high school age and below women’s foilists and mixed epeeists so they have a variety of people with whom to compete. It looks like this will be the only meet with any crossover between the high school and home school leagues this year.  I will be asking people specifically so I can plan ahead.


No afterschool on Monday the 19th due to MLK Day.

The
next set of Camp Lejeune classes should start on the 23rd. This one
looks like it will be a large class with a good mix of adults and
younger beginners.

The 24th will be our first 12 and under event for 2015.  $5 entry, Foil at 10 am, sabre at 1:30 pm, epee at 2:30 pm.

The 31st is the second NCFL meet of January, location yet to be decided.

Tony
Viollis, St. Mary’s AD, has asked me to let anyone who is interested
know that there will be a Golf Tournament to benefit the athletic
program fund on March 21st.  I believe there is more information on St. Mary’s website.

Finally,
looking way ahead, camps for 2015 will be in July/August as always.  I
will probably use July 13-17 for the beginner camp.  The other weeks are
July 20-24, July 27-31, and August 3-7.  If anyone has a preference or a
conflict let me know and I will try to make certain your weapon’s camp
does not fall on that week.

pax vobiscum,

 
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
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