Junior Olympic Qualifiers

The information on the JO qualifiers is up on askfred.net.  It will be a one day event on November 17th, at the Apex Fencing Academy in Apex.  The actual JOs are in Columbus, Ohio, on President’s Day Weekend in February, so they are with a one drive as far as travel.

If you want to go you need to be preregistered by Thursday night, November 14th.

If you qualify in a Junior event and you are eligible to fence cadet, you are automatically qualified to fence the cadet at JOs.  You would be allowed to fence the qualifier for free, but if you take what would be a qualification spot, you keep someone else from qualifying.  All of the junior events are fenced before the cadet events, so you may know if you have qualified before the cadet starts.

They are running a very tight schedule, so if you fence more than one weapon, be prepared to possible be switching back and forth between the DE of one and the pool of the other, or the DEs of both.  This will be even more complicated for those of you planning to try to qualify in two weapons for junior and cadet.

Let me know if you have any questions.

pax vobiscum,