Lignano Jr WC 2008

[teacup]

Click on Coupe Du Monde - 20 Ans

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[Capt. Slo-mo]

From the Junior WS field, a trio of Americans make top 8:

1 BENKO Reka HUN
2 D'ANDREA Martina ITA
3 NAGY Petra HUN
3 PETO Reka HUN
5 WHEELER Diamond USA
6 NAVARRIA Caterina ITA
7 AIUTO Stephanie USA
8 ROBERTS Samantha USA

13 OSIER Lian USA

24 RUSSO Jessica USA
27 KASTOR Tiki USA
30 PAK Sarah USA

41 TANNOUS Alexandra USA
44 LEE Kara USA
48 MOORE Holly USA
50 CADLEY Sean USA

[Montoya]

11. Corwin Duncan
18. James Kaull
33. Adam Watson
44. Josh Silver
69 James Hawrot

[teacup]

Women's Foil

5 PRESCOD Nzingha USA
12 LU Margaret USA
20 ROSS Nicole USA
37 SARKISOVA Dayana USA
40 LOMUSCIO Alyssa USA
53 HAWROT Kathryn USA
56 GEORGES Ephiphany USA
57 KEHOE Isabel USA
69 KILPATRICK Teagan USA
73 BECK Rachel USA
77 YUH Hyun-Kyung USA
69 KILPATRICK Teagan USA

[NNR]

USA won silver medal in team competition - small field - Italy, gold, Slovakia bronze, Romania fourth, and last.

[occasionalfencer]

USA took silver, Italy gold.

[Capt. Slo-mo]

Curious that WS was the only US weapon fencing that did not field a team. There were certainly enough ladies present... (No USA WE fencers in either event)

What with all the discussion of augmenting the new crop of American fencers' "team" experience...

[sleepyweasle]

To fence the team event on Sunday would mean not arriving back at school until Tuesday - at least 2 of the WS ladies had final papers or exams due on Monday and this is the beginning of finals for them. Ahh the carefree college life...

Believe me they were very annoyed they couldn't participate in the team event.

[teacup]

Curious that WS was the only US weapon fencing that did not field a team. There were certainly enough ladies present... (No USA WE fencers in either event)

What with all the discussion of augmenting the new crop of American fencers' "team" experience...

It wasn't a designated Jr WE WC.

[Capt. Slo-mo]

To fence the team event on Sunday would mean not arriving back at school until Tuesday - at least 2 of the WS ladies had final papers or exams due on Monday and this is the beginning of finals for them. Ahh the carefree college life...
Believe me they were very annoyed they couldn't participate in the team event.

I figured as much...although there still were more than enough non-college kids there--Osier and Wheeler for instance, to make up at least 2/3s of a team. Roberts is in college, if I remember, but Russo is an up and comer...the three of them might have had some good clean bonding fun and learned something about team fencing, to boot.

It wasn't a designated Jr WE WC.

I figured as much, with the scarcity of WE fencers from the US...as in none. Interesting choice not to designate it, though, given there was a team component to the event. Those seem rare in the Junior WC circuit. With all the recent discussion about the value of more team competition experience for our new crop of fencers, the failure to take advantage of this opportunity seems odd.