USA Fencing Coaching Institute
USA Fencing and U.S. Fencing Coaches Association will be hosting the first USA Fencing Coaching Institute at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. As part of USA Fencing’s new coaching accreditation program, participants will have the opportunity to earn Assistant Monitor and Monitor certifications as well as preparation to earn their Prevost and Master degree. [...]
Army Ripostes Navy
Army Ripostes Navy at First Annual Fencing Tournament in Warrington, Pa. Army claims victory in historic series of bouts Warrington, Pa – It came down to the last point in a fencer’s platform as Army engaged Navy in an intense fencing meet on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at Liberty Fencing Club, located at 366 Easton [...]
Gerek Meinhardt – Ready for the Opportunity
It’s crazy to think that after a year of fencing world cups and NACs with thousands of points being racked up, that there was less than 10 points from the replacement athlete to the Olympic shot. It just shows how close things were for all of us!
USA Fencing Candidates – Discussions
Two of the candidates for USA Fencing President have published their platforms and some answers to membership questions over in the forums. The two that have joined in the discussion thus far are Donald Anthony and Felicia Zimmermann. Felicia’s bio can also be found as a pdf file here. Donald joined in the thread on [...]
World Cup action in Bologna, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro
Women’s events span the globe this weekend as Women’s Saber heads to Bologna, Foil is contested in Shanghai, and Epee is off to Rio. Mariel Zagunis will battle in Bologna to take back the world #1 ranking from Sofia Velikaia (RUS). The US cadre includes Dagmara Wozniak, Daria Schneider, Ibtihaj Muhammad, and Celina Merza. Zagunis [...]
Upsets Abound at the Prince Takamado Grand Prix
The Prince Takamado Grand Prix event was one that punished oddsmakers and rewarded those taking long shots as no fencer in the top-10 made it to the final-8 of the direct elimination table. Jianfei Ma (CHN) won the grand prix event 15-13 over Byung Chul Choi (KOR) while Richard Kruse (GBR) and Marius Braun (GER) [...]
World Cup Previews for April 27th
With Olympic qualification complete, fencers and teams now look to the rest of the world cup season to work on their FIE rankings which will be used for the seeding into the direct elimination brackets at the Olympics.
2012 Olympic Celebration Video
Holly Buechel created this video for the New York Athletic Club’s Olympian party which celebrates the 2012 Olympians and the 2012 World Championship Men’s Epee Team and bronze medal Women’s Saber Team. The video highlights the season for the US Men’s Epee and Women’s Saber teams as well as some of the breakout stars of [...]
Olympic Zonal Qualifiers – Results
The Olympic qualification cycle is now complete. The final events for individual qualification to the 2012 Olympic Games concluded last weekend with the Zonal Qualification tournaments for the Americas, Africa, Asia-Oceana, and Europe. Those fencers are added on to the end of the list of qualifiers for the various individual events. For the primer of [...]
Photo Gallery: Asian Fencing Championships
Serge Timacheff is in Wakayama, Japan providing photo coverage of the 2012 Asian Fencing Championships. We’ve got lots of photos available on Facebook for you to browse – just Like Fencing.Net’s page for full access. Korea has dominated the individual events, winning 4 of 6 gold medals and 11 medals overall. China showed the next [...]
