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The Hell's Belles are a collegiate club team located at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts. As a club team, they aren't constrained by the school's NCAA colors or mascot, and have chosen to wear red and black, and have the succubus as their mascot. Their website had been perpetually out of date, but a new website is up (though far from finished and currently not very informative). As Smith is a women's school, there is only a women's team. No, they are not looking to have you volunteer to be their men's team.
[edit] Officers for the 2007-2008 School Year
- President- Caitlin "Jo" Fredette
- Treasurers- Claire Peters, Anna Lorenz
- USACFC Nationals Coordinator- Ashley Hatfield
- Epee Captain- Madison Stewart
- Foil Captain- Jen Woolley
- Sabre Captain- Alison Smith
[edit] Head Coach Scott Tundermann
Scott Tundermann has been fencing for over fourteen years and coaching for ten. He began coaching at Smith College in 1997. In three years, he built the program from a handful of fencers, competing individually in club and "junior varsity" events, to a thriving team with over twenty
members, competing actively in three New England conferences.
Tundermann was nominated for 1998-1999 Coach of the Year in the Northeast Fencing Conference in recognition of the strong growth of the Smith program and his leadership in the development of women’s sabre. In 2000, Smith won the Top Club Team award at the New England Collegiate Championships; in 2001, the sabre squad finished third after MIT and Boston College, and the Smith team bested varsity rival Wellesley College for the fourth consecutive time. Smith and finished 7th overall.
In his own fencing career, Mr. Tundermann continues to win medals in all three weapons at USFA events, and has competed internationally in sabre. At the 2000 Summer Nationals, Tundermann finished 6th in Div III men's epee and 15th in Div II. He was a medal-winning fencer as the captain of the Hampshire College fencing club, coaching during the head coach’s year abroad and staying on as assistant coach after graduating. In 1998, he studied fencing and instruction with Hungarian and Polish national masters. More recently, he earned "top of the class" honors in both Sabre 1 and Epee 1 at the USFA’s Coaching Development Program in 2001 and completed Sabre 2 and Epee 2 in 2002.
[edit] Conferences
Smith participates in several conferences, including the NFC, NEIFC, NIWFA, and USACFC conferences. In the recent past, they have hosted two meets and a scrimmage every year. 2007 will be the first year in a while that Smith has not hosted The Big One; this change is so that the administration would agree to host the 2008 USACFCs.
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