CFFA has its first World Championship qualifier, Erica Julien. Erica took the silver medal in the Vet 70+ women’s epee national championship on Friday. She came out of the pools ranked in 4th. She defeated the 5th ranked person, whom she actually lost to at the last NAC, then took out the number 1 seed in the DEs. She lost in the finals to the highest rated and youngest person there. This result, plus her second in one of the NACs, puts her on the World Championship veteran’s team which will fence in Germany in October. Today she took a bronze in the National Championship for Vet women’s 70+ sabre. She was 5th coming out of pools, and pulled an upset on the number 4 seed, before losing to the first seed. I don’t think her saber results are good enough to also qualify her for championships in sabre.
Robert Thomas is also at Nationals. In a very top heavy Vet 40 men’s epee, he defeated an A in his pool. He made the cut into the DEs, but lost his first DE to the number 5 seed. Robert has another event and Oliver and Nicole still have their events, so I will keep you updated.
North Carolina is doing pretty well as far as the medals go. Gillian Litynski, who I believe is a UNC Chapel Hill fencer, took 8th in the women’s Div I sabre and won the women’s Div 1-A sabre. Carlton Badger of Mid-South, won the Vet 60 men’s sabre and will be on the World Championship team with Erica. Colleen Gallant of Charlotte took a bronze in the women’s Vet 50 foil and Joel Spielberg of NCFDP took a bronze in the Vet 70+ men’s epee.
In the Vet 40 men’s sabre today, David Minton of Mid-South took 5th and Sean Bates of Queen City won the silver.
I should be back in town for practice Tuesday at 6:30 pm, if the younger ones want to come. The same for Thursday. I will be up at Camp Lejeune Friday night and in for practice on Saturday morning. Thanks to Brendan and Herman for making everything go while I am away.
New Bern is hosting both an E and under epee and an SCA rapier event on July 23rd. I will be going up. Light lunch and a potluck dinner around 4-5 pm. Sign up for the epee is on askfred. I don’t know about the rapier requirements and sign up. Only Ed Childs and I have signed up so far so this would be a good event for some new epee fencer to take a shot at.
Only had about eight people ask about T-shirts so far. Many of you who had mentioned it in passing haven’t given me a size or a definite indication of interest. We need to be closer to the 24 minimum order to make this happen. So far only one person has expressed a definite interest in a jacket.
Beginner camp July 11-15. Advanced sabre July 18-22. Advanced foil July 25-29. No one has expressed an idea August 1-5, so that may be something or nothing. Advanced epee August 8-12.
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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