We had a good kids tournament Saturday. A lot of our “new” foilists turned out and very few of the really veteran 12 and unders were there, so it was a wide open affair in that weapon. The results:
Foil 1st Elijah Wells 2nd Orion Brown 3rd (tie) Jacob Jenkinson & Caroline Artz
9 and under Gold – Walker Rottman Silver – Lexi Williams Bronze – Christopher Donelson
Sabre was pretty much the usual suspects:
1st Reaghan Juelke 2nd Amir Shaheen 3rd (tie) Avery Walston & Liam Bruno
Epee was small, but had a very high level of fencing.
1st Nicole Milewski 2nd Kent Walston 3rd (tie) Liam Bruno & Lydia Huggins
Thanks to Heather and all the parents.
On Sunday, we had our homeschool fencing team compete in Oak Ridge. The fencers were Nickolas and Meredythe Galliher, and Caroline and Isabelle Artz. They went 1-3 in the B division, beating a team from FHE.
Should be a standard week of practice. (We will have afterschool, etc. on Veteran’s Day as St. Mary does not take the day off). Not many UNCW fencers are showing up on Wednesday, so that is shaping up as a good night for people who want to come in for lessons and doing work without a lot of pressure to fence bouts.
Sign ups for JO qualifiers are now on askfred.net.
The qualifying events are on Saturday and Sunday, November 15th and
16th. All the Junior events (ages 13-19) are on Saturday and the Cadet
(ages 13-16) qualifiers are on Sunday. The JOs are always held over
the President’s Day weekend in February. The events are in Richmond,
VA, this year. The preregistration deadline has passed, so it will be pretty expensive to jump in now.
That
weekend, Fredericksburg has large Vet events on Saturday and Richmond
has women only events on Sunday. Erica Julien is planning on hitting
both of them, so maybe you can head up with her or at least provide back
up.
weekend, Fredericksburg has large Vet events on Saturday and Richmond
has women only events on Sunday. Erica Julien is planning on hitting
both of them, so maybe you can head up with her or at least provide back
up.
The
North Carolina Fencing League’s first event is
November 22nd and we will be hosting it. It is a foil team event and
takes teams of three fencers and they can have a sub. It doesn’t cost
anything for the fencers, but it is appreciated if we have volunteer referees. Fencers
do need a full outfit including knickers and underarm protector. Let us
know if you might be interested in fencing and don’t have such things
yet so we can see if the club has your size or can borrow from someone.
Our teams fence in the B Division since we don’t represent a school.
In that division fencers can be any age so we will put together as many
teams as we can. Of course, you will possibly be fencing people all the
way up to high school age, but we can try to split some of it out by
ages. People who will be competing need to start letting me know who will be there so we can start putting together teams.
North Carolina Fencing League’s first event is
November 22nd and we will be hosting it. It is a foil team event and
takes teams of three fencers and they can have a sub. It doesn’t cost
anything for the fencers, but it is appreciated if we have volunteer referees. Fencers
do need a full outfit including knickers and underarm protector. Let us
know if you might be interested in fencing and don’t have such things
yet so we can see if the club has your size or can borrow from someone.
Our teams fence in the B Division since we don’t represent a school.
In that division fencers can be any age so we will put together as many
teams as we can. Of course, you will possibly be fencing people all the
way up to high school age, but we can try to split some of it out by
ages. People who will be competing need to start letting me know who will be there so we can start putting together teams.
Mid South is again hosting their Black Friday event on the 28th. See askfred for details.
November 29th is the 2nd homeschool fencing event, again at Oak Ridge. Fencers can still join until January. Another fencer over 13 would allow us to have an A team. Let me know if you are interested. I think you can talk to our people who competed and you will find out they enjoyed it.
December 6th is the 2nd NCFL meet, but again the location has not yet been determined.
Our
next home adult event is December 13. Open foil, open epee, and Vet
epee. Start getting signed up now. We are currently the two Bs, and another D, plus some bodies away from having a B event in the Vet’s.
next home adult event is December 13. Open foil, open epee, and Vet
epee. Start getting signed up now. We are currently the two Bs, and another D, plus some bodies away from having a B event in the Vet’s.
pax vobiscum,
Greg Spahr
Head Coach
Cape Fear Fencing Association
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
but that’s the way to bet.” Damon Runyon
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