Another weekend with a lot going on. On Saturday at the Apex Novice cup, John Alexander went undefeated in his pool, but lost a close DE in the semis to end up with the bronze medal. Jackson Jones was 3-2 in his pool, won his first DE, but lost his second to finish 6th in a large field. Megan Looney competed in the Women’s open foil. She had a rough pool, and lost a 14-15 DE to finish 10th.
Sunday was the JO qualifiers, again at Apex. In men’s foil, Will Golder went 2-3 in his pool. won his first DE, but lost the second and finished 8th. On the women’s side, Amelia Alexander was also 3-2, but lost her first DE and finished 6th. For the Men’s Junior epee, Eoin O’Brien was 3-4 in the pool, but ran into Will in his first DE and finished 8th. Kent Walston was 1-6 in the pool, but proving that such things do happen, beat the number 1 seed in his first DE. Unfortunately, he lost the next DE and then lost the fence off for third, and finished fourth. Will was 4-3, defeated Eoin, won his next DE, but lost in the final, gaining the silver medal. This qualifies him for both the Junior and Cadet epee at JOs. On the women’s epee side Lydia Huggins had to fence her first DE against Amelia, and finished with the bronze medal. Amelia went on to avenge a pool loss and won the gold medal. Both women qualify for the junior and cadet epee events at JOs. The last event CFFA had participants in was the cadet women’s foil. Megan Looney again had a rough round, but again made the DE close at 13-15. She finished 5th. Amelia was 3-1 in her pool and went undefeated in the DEs to win that gold medal and qualify for Cadet women’s foil at the JOs.
Just a note that as I ask everyone to sign up early for our events on askfred, I would ask that you tell me early about what events you might be doing elsewhere. I try to figure out where I will be based on where I can help the most people, or where the event is important enough that a person can really use my help, such as a National event or qualifier. I have to make decisions about a week ahead so I can plan what happens at the club. This week I had made the decision to have practice because there was only one person signed up for Apex on Saturday at the time. Then a couple more people signed up. We had a good practice on Saturday, 3 strips of epee fencers. But I would have had to think about which was more important and could have someone else have opened a Saturday practice.
On another, probably more important issue, when you feel a sharp pain in some part of your body or hear a loud pop; STOP fencing immediately. Get off the strip and give it a couple of minutes to see whether it goes away, still hurts, or gets worse. Even if starts going away, being done for the night or event is a good idea. Better to miss out on a couple of bouts than on 6-8 weeks of fencing. A dull ache that starts the next day, is a different animal. Tthat is just telling you that you haven’t used those muscles in a while.
Thanks to Frank Milewski for doing the contact and sizing work for the jackets. The order will be going in and everything should be back in time for the holidays. We should soon have instructions for the people who missed out but will want a jacket or jacket/pants set once they see how cool? phat? neato? groovy? dope? whatever the current expression is? they are.
The
Charlotte NAC (January 3-6) is open for registration until this Wednesday, 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 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 Will is the only one of our fencers I see 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 this Wednesday, 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 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 Will is the only one of our fencers I see 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.
A regular week of practice this week, including Surf City and Camp Lejeune.
The
next Surf City beginner 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.
next Surf City beginner 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 need to start looking at timing. ride sharing, etc.
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 need to start looking at timing. ride sharing, etc.
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. No homeschool, afterschool or evening
classes or practice on Wednesday or Thursday. No Surf City (no school) or Camp
Lejeune (Wallace Creek shuts at 6 pm) practice on Friday. I am open to a Saturday practice if there
is a demand.
Thanksgiving week, I would assume we will keep a regular schedule up
through Tuesday. No homeschool, afterschool or evening
classes or practice on Wednesday or Thursday. No Surf City (no school) or Camp
Lejeune (Wallace Creek shuts at 6 pm) 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. Currently there are more Apex foilists entered in our events than CFFA fencers. Sign up is on
askfred.net.
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. Currently there are more Apex foilists entered in our events than CFFA fencers. 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.
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.
November 14 is also an NCFL event, but no location has yet been decided.
I want to know if people want to have a youth event on December 21st. Let me know and if enough people are for it, I will make it happen. I certainly understand if it is to close to Christmas travel to make it work.
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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