Erica finished up her time at the World Championships by competing on the Women’s Vet combined team. It is a bit of a hybrid competition. It uses the relay system for teams, however it takes one fencer from the 50-59 age group, one from the 60-69 age group, and one from the 70+ age group. Each fencer only fences someone from their age group. They fence two rounds so the event goes to thirty. Another peculiarity is that you can fence the same fencer twice. Teams generally have two sets of veterans and can sub in if needed. The US defeated Great Britain in pools with Erica sitting out. The US lost to Germany by 1 touch with Erica in. Erica was only behind her German counterpart by one touch over two matches even though the German woman had won the bronze medal in the championships the day before. Then, just to prove that event manipulation does not only occur in North Carolina, the organizers decided to violate the seeding order. As the seeding turned out, the US would have faced Great Britain again in the first DE round with the winner facing Germany. France, Finland, and Hungary; the teams in the other pool, faced a similar situation. The organizers decided to have the US fence Hungary and France fence Great Britain instead of following the correct seeding order. With Erica sitting this one out, the Hungarians took advantage of the situation and defeated the Americans by one touch. This left the US out of the medals in 5th place. Of course discussions/complaints followed, but in the end the results of the event manipulation were allowed to stand.
October 19th is the last day to enter the December NAC in Richmond before fees triple. Please let me know who all is going so I can make plans to be there.
About time to order again, so get requests to Herman or me by Thursday.
St.
Mary’s Fall Festival is Friday night, October 21. Our space
traditionally becomes the Haunted House for the event. We will take the
overheads down after Tuesday’s practice. Homeschool fencing will meet
on Wednesday, October 19, but there will be no afterschool or evening
fencing for either Wednesday or Thursday.
Mary’s Fall Festival is Friday night, October 21. Our space
traditionally becomes the Haunted House for the event. We will take the
overheads down after Tuesday’s practice. Homeschool fencing will meet
on Wednesday, October 19, but there will be no afterschool or evening
fencing for either Wednesday or Thursday.
There will be fencing at Camp Lejeune on Friday night.
October 22nd is an epee event in Charlotte for Y-14, women’s and open events. The open looks to make it up to be a B event.
Mid-South is having a sabre RJCC on the 22nd. The women’s sabre events (cadet and junior) both look to be C events.
October
22nd will also be our next youth event. It is earlier than I
would have liked, but the schedule from that date until January is
extremely crowded. I will truncate the classes now in
progress so that those youngsters will be ready to participate.
22nd will also be our next youth event. It is earlier than I
would have liked, but the schedule from that date until January is
extremely crowded. I will truncate the classes now in
progress so that those youngsters will be ready to participate.
That
means that the foil could be very large. Any help with refereeing is
appreciated. Foil at 10 am, sabre at 1:30 pm, and epee at 3:30 pm.
means that the foil could be very large. Any help with refereeing is
appreciated. Foil at 10 am, sabre at 1:30 pm, and epee at 3:30 pm.
The
JO qualifiers are now up on askfred. They will be on the weekend of
the 29-30 and the times are set. They will be held at Research Triangle Academy. The actual event is in Kansas City next year on
President’s Day weekend. Not real close, but not too far away. Entry deadline before the fees go up is 10/23. Right now only Oliver and Samantha are entered. The junior events are on Saturday and the cadet events are on Sunday. If you qualify for the junior event and are eligible for the cadet, you are automatically qualified and do not have to fence Sunday. Most of our 13-19 year old fencers should be going just for the experience. Although there is still a week to enter most of the events are really small. Only 6 in the junior men’s foil and epee and only 4 in the cadet events. (Logan, Kyler, Phil, Will, Kent, Harry, etc.) Only 3 in junior women’s foil and 2 in cadet. (Bea, Kirin) NOBODY in either women’s sabre Reaghan.
JO qualifiers are now up on askfred. They will be on the weekend of
the 29-30 and the times are set. They will be held at Research Triangle Academy. The actual event is in Kansas City next year on
President’s Day weekend. Not real close, but not too far away. Entry deadline before the fees go up is 10/23. Right now only Oliver and Samantha are entered. The junior events are on Saturday and the cadet events are on Sunday. If you qualify for the junior event and are eligible for the cadet, you are automatically qualified and do not have to fence Sunday. Most of our 13-19 year old fencers should be going just for the experience. Although there is still a week to enter most of the events are really small. Only 6 in the junior men’s foil and epee and only 4 in the cadet events. (Logan, Kyler, Phil, Will, Kent, Harry, etc.) Only 3 in junior women’s foil and 2 in cadet. (Bea, Kirin) NOBODY in either women’s sabre Reaghan.
The week of October 31st will begin the next afterschool class. The next homeschool session will begin on the 2nd.
November 1st is when I have to have rosters in for our homeschool league team.
We
will be hosting the first NCFL meet of the season on November 5th.
This tends to be a huge event and we can use help. The A division is
comprised of official high school teams or clubs and will have divisions
for men’s foil, women’s foil, and mixed epee this year. The B division
has junior high and up fencers and they compete as mixed foil teams.
It can be B teams from the high schools, junior high teams, or fencers
can compete under a club banner. Any of our fencers attending a public
school (junior high and up) can compete. Let me know if you need gear
as everyone must compete in a complete uniform. I am assuming a local team from Hoggard and a New Hanover women’s foil team.
will be hosting the first NCFL meet of the season on November 5th.
This tends to be a huge event and we can use help. The A division is
comprised of official high school teams or clubs and will have divisions
for men’s foil, women’s foil, and mixed epee this year. The B division
has junior high and up fencers and they compete as mixed foil teams.
It can be B teams from the high schools, junior high teams, or fencers
can compete under a club banner. Any of our fencers attending a public
school (junior high and up) can compete. Let me know if you need gear
as everyone must compete in a complete uniform. I am assuming a local team from Hoggard and a New Hanover women’s foil team.
For adults who want to compete rather than help referee, etc. ECU is having their fall event on the 5th. It has foil, epee, and a C and under epee. No one signed up yet.
November’s beginner class will start on Monday, the 7th.
Our next event will be November 12th. It has an open epee that is well on its way to being a B. The open foil only has two fencers. The E and under foil has 0. To all the following people, this is the day you should be fencing. You can come in and do foil in the morning in what could be a large event like our last one, or at the very least do the E and under where no one will be an absolute dominant fencer. If we can get 15 people, with 4 of them being Es, someone will earn a D. At the very least 6 people lets someone earn/re-earn an E. Here goes – Logan, Kyler, Will, Harry, Bea, Kirin, Reaghan, Stephanie, Phil. Get Nora and Robert in to have a couple of those Es. From UNCW Bracy, left and right hand Catherines, Connor, Taylor, Will, Alex, Hannah, Jasmine, and a bunch of you for whom this would be the perfect first USA Fencing tournament. All those people show up and we just about have our D tournament before anyone shows up from outside.
November 13th will be a homeschool league scrimmage in Winston Salem. Let me know if you are interested so we can start making uniform and travel plans.
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