First, Mr. Milewski will be in Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday of this week to size and take orders and payment for the new CFFA jackets and, if desired, the matching pants. I will be sending out a more detailed note from Mr. Milewski a bit later. Many thanks to Frank for his dogged pursuit of this. (Hint, hint: the holidays are coming.)
The good news: our tournaments Saturday looked so good that a fencer came from Alaska to partake in them. The bad news: Y’all let him win. You are carrying the Southern hospitality thing a little too far in my opinion. In the opening foil event, Josh White of Salle New Bern prevailed over Victoria Schmidt of Research Triangle Fencing. Our Amelia Alexander and Catherine Zulueta of the Apex Fencing Academy tied for third. In the Open epee, Niul Manske of the Anchorage Fencing Club beat CFFA’s Paul Perkins to earn his B19. Paul re-earned his C19. CFFA’s Kenyatta Sanford and Will Golder took the two third place cups. Joey Smith earned his E19 with a twelfth place finish. (Another advantage of large events.) If we could have had a couple more bodies the Vet epee would have been a C event and some people would have earned or reupped their ratings. As it was, Mr. Manske took home that first place trophy over Marston Crawford of Salle New Bern. Paul and David Hueske of Edge of America Fencing tied for the third places. Of course, Mr. Manske does have an advantage because what else is there to do in Anchorage for abut 8 months out of the year? Thanks to Brendan for a huge amount of set up work that he did. Thanks to Ryan Hightower for the Saturday morning set up assistance. Thanks to Donny Zelinski, Brendan, Josh, and Victoria for refereeing. Zemi Lawrence ran and observed the event. Herman and Mike Kinney kept all the armoring stuff running.
On another fencing front, Nicole Milewski participated in the Milwaukee NAC over the weekend. She had an excellent day Friday in the Junior (13-19) Women’s epee. She was 5-1 in her opening pool, beating an A and a B; and only losing 3-5 to the woman who would eventually finish 3rd. She won her first DE. As sometimes happens at these events, I don’t know if her next opponent was able to watch her first DE. But her next opponent was an A from the same club as the woman she had just defeated, so she had some level of a scouting report. She defeated Nicole who ended up in 45th out of 230 fencers. This gets her National Junior points, and I believe auto qualifies her for the JOs, so no one has to deal with her Sunday. Sunday’s Cadet (13-16) epee was not quite as good, but still very solid. A 4-2 pool, with one of the victories being the only loss the B who won the pool suffered. In her DE she hit a B who had recently won the Division II NAC event. Nicole finished 78/209 which I think was still good enough to get her a few more Cadet National points. So a very solid weekend.
The
Charlotte NAC (January 3-6) is open for registration until November
20th. It has Div I, Junior, and senior team events. For those of you
wanting to see what the highest level of competition in the US feels
like, this is as close as this kind of event will ever get.
Additionally, for those of you who qualify for the JOs, this junior is
open, and will give you an idea of what the JOs will be like. Div I
means you must have a C to enter. Junior is for those born in the years
2000-2006. The senior team means you need 3, maybe 4 with an
alternate, people. Everyone has to be old enough to fence in Senior
(adult) tournaments. The team event is a DE from the get go, so you may
not want to enter unless unless you are going for something else as
well. Here are the dates, but times have not yet been posted, for the
events in which I believe some of our fencers may be interested. Friday
1/3 Div I Men’s epee; Saturday 1/4 Div I Men’s foil, Div I Women’s
epee; Sunday 1/5 Men’s epee team, Junior men’s foil, Junior Women’s
epee,; Monday 1/6 Junior Men’s epee, Junior Women’s foil, Women’s epee
team. So far none of our fencers have signed up. Our A, Bs, and Cs
should be thinking about the Div I events; our junior fencers should be
entering those. There should be teams we can put together, those can be
of any rating and (over 13) age combinations, but must be gender
specific.
Charlotte NAC (January 3-6) is open for registration until November
20th. It has Div I, Junior, and senior team events. For those of you
wanting to see what the highest level of competition in the US feels
like, this is as close as this kind of event will ever get.
Additionally, for those of you who qualify for the JOs, this junior is
open, and will give you an idea of what the JOs will be like. Div I
means you must have a C to enter. Junior is for those born in the years
2000-2006. The senior team means you need 3, maybe 4 with an
alternate, people. Everyone has to be old enough to fence in Senior
(adult) tournaments. The team event is a DE from the get go, so you may
not want to enter unless unless you are going for something else as
well. Here are the dates, but times have not yet been posted, for the
events in which I believe some of our fencers may be interested. Friday
1/3 Div I Men’s epee; Saturday 1/4 Div I Men’s foil, Div I Women’s
epee; Sunday 1/5 Men’s epee team, Junior men’s foil, Junior Women’s
epee,; Monday 1/6 Junior Men’s epee, Junior Women’s foil, Women’s epee
team. So far none of our fencers have signed up. Our A, Bs, and Cs
should be thinking about the Div I events; our junior fencers should be
entering those. There should be teams we can put together, those can be
of any rating and (over 13) age combinations, but must be gender
specific.
This week will run pretty normal. Afterschool today as St. Mary is using Veteran’s Day as a Dorian make up day. I will be in on Saturday to give people a chance at getting their sizing for jackets done and to give the people going to the JO qualifiers a chance for one last practice.
On
the 16th Apex
has another of their unsanctioned youth and adult events.
Right now we have few (one) people going.
the 16th Apex
has another of their unsanctioned youth and adult events.
Right now we have few (one) people going.
The
JO qualifiers are going to be November 17th at Apex. This year the
JOs are in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus venue is pretty good and the
drive/flight is not too bad. Hopefully we can have a large contingent
at the qualifiers even if not everyone makes it to JOs. It is a one day
event, so timing will be tight and I imagine that if you attempt to
qualify in multiple weapons you will be running back and forth from one
to the other. You need to be signed up by 11/14. If you fence a Junior
event and qualify for the junior, you are automatically qualified for
the cadet if you are the correct age. You would not then have to fence
the cadet later in the day. For that reason, all of the junior events
happen first and the cadet events later. Right now only the foil events and the men’s sabre events are big. There are a couple of days to sign up, so things may get larger. However, I can list a large number of our fencers who are not registered but should be.
JO qualifiers are going to be November 17th at Apex. This year the
JOs are in Columbus, Ohio. The Columbus venue is pretty good and the
drive/flight is not too bad. Hopefully we can have a large contingent
at the qualifiers even if not everyone makes it to JOs. It is a one day
event, so timing will be tight and I imagine that if you attempt to
qualify in multiple weapons you will be running back and forth from one
to the other. You need to be signed up by 11/14. If you fence a Junior
event and qualify for the junior, you are automatically qualified for
the cadet if you are the correct age. You would not then have to fence
the cadet later in the day. For that reason, all of the junior events
happen first and the cadet events later. Right now only the foil events and the men’s sabre events are big. There are a couple of days to sign up, so things may get larger. However, I can list a large number of our fencers who are not registered but should be.
The next Surf City Class will start on Friday the 22nd. Those of you who wish to continue after the beginner class will just roll into fencing with the more advanced fencers. Help get the word out.
The
23rd is the second NCFL meet, this time at Chapel Hill HS. We will
start looking at timing. ride sharing, etc. in the next week or so.
Teams and individuals that didn’t compete at our event can still jump
in. That means all you Coastal Christian, New Hanover, and Hoggard fencers.
23rd is the second NCFL meet, this time at Chapel Hill HS. We will
start looking at timing. ride sharing, etc. in the next week or so.
Teams and individuals that didn’t compete at our event can still jump
in. That means all you Coastal Christian, New Hanover, and Hoggard fencers.
Also
on that date for non-NCFL fencers, The Harry Rulnick open is being held
in Fayetteville. It has open adult foil split between men and women
and is a sanctioned event. Both events are going to give at least an E away. All-American fencers have been showing up to our events, so it would be nice, and probably beneficial to you, if some of our homeschool and non high school age foilists showed up to this event.
on that date for non-NCFL fencers, The Harry Rulnick open is being held
in Fayetteville. It has open adult foil split between men and women
and is a sanctioned event. Both events are going to give at least an E away. All-American fencers have been showing up to our events, so it would be nice, and probably beneficial to you, if some of our homeschool and non high school age foilists showed up to this event.
Mid-South has one of their unsanctioned youth sabre events on that weekend.
For Thanksgiving week, I would assume we will keep a regular schedule up through Tuesday. I will leave it up to the homeschool fencers as to whether they want a Wednesday practice. No afterschool or evening classes or practice on Wednesday or Thursday. No Surf City or Camp Lejeune practice on Friday. I am open to a Saturday practice if there is a demand.
Our next event will be on Saturday, December 7th. It will have an open epee, and an open and an E and under foil. If last weekend’s meet is prologue, the two foil events will look almost identical. Meaning all of you lower level foilists who have been waiting for something where you don’t have to worry about Cs and Bs, etc. should be jumping in. I will say again that if you are coming you should get entered now, because people from other clubs are already making decisions about where to fence that weekend. The more competition they see at our event, the more likely this is the one they will choose. Sign up is on askfred.net.
Apex is having a number of youth and adult unsanctioned events on that date. Those of you too young for our events may want to go up there. Check askfred.
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
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