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TCFC Meet

There has been a change in plan. Since TCFC only has a women's foil team, only women's foil will be going to TCFC. We have cancelled the bus, so let me know if you don't have a way to TCFC. When WF is done fencing they can go home.

The rest of the team will have a regular practice in the Dining Hall with Bob and Bob.

Since it's such a small group we'll also cancel the snacks for this meet, let's save them for states.

For those of you who haven't fenced States before here is an explanation of the format.
It is an individual meet, much like the SPA Invite, but how you place impacts directly how the team finishes in the team standings.
You will have a round of pools of 5 touches and then fence 15 touch direct elimination bouts, once you lose you're out. So, how you do in the pools is very important, the difference of only 1 touch can make a difference in your final placing.
To figure out the team awards, you take the top 3 finishers from SPA in each event. You get points equal to your finishing place and the team with the lowest number wins.

For example: If we finish 1st, 4th and 5th that would equal 10 points (1+4+5) we would beat a team that finished 2nd, 3rd and 6th (11 points) by 1 point. We can earn team awards for each squad, male and female, overall women's team and overall men's team and Overall combined team.

States Close of Registration Times

Event Close of Registration: You should be at Roseville High School at least 30m minutes before this time!

Women's Saber 8:00 AM
Men's Epee 8:00 AM
Women's Epee 9:00 AM
Men's Foil 9:30 AM
Men's Saber 10:30 AM
Women's Foil 11:30 AM

Roseville Results

Win overall 6-0
MF - 6-3
WS - 7-2
WE - 6-3
ME - 7-2
MS - 7-2
WF - 8-1

Congrats to Alex our MVP!

Next Week

Mon - Squad Practice
Tues - No practice - there is no space for us
Wed - practice in the Dining Hall
Thurs - Squad practice
Fri - No school = no practice
Mon - No school = no practice = President's Day
Tues - Whole team practice
Wed - Meet against TCFC at TCFC - the bus will leave at 3:15. You'll need a ride home from TCFC, the meet will start at 4.
Thursday - Meet against Sword Play at SPA.
Friday - Squad Practice

Then only one week left until States!

State Championships at Roseville on 3.3.07

Go to www.askfred.net to register for states. You can also see who else has registered on that site.

It's a race, let's see which squad can get registered first.

Treat Schedule for the Remaining Meets

Here is the treat schedule for the rest of the season. We have a few blank spots if you'd like to bring a snack to the meet. Thank you so much to everyone who has brought snacks, they are very appreciated by the fencers and coaches.

2-8 Roseville @ Roseville 4:00
Drinks:
Drinks:
Snack: Logan's
Snack: Sandozi's
Dinner at the Dougherty's after the meet

2-21 TCFC @ TCFC 4:00 **note the change in date**
Drinks: Lutz's
Drinks: Nordin's
Snack: Wald's
Snack:

2-22 Sword Play @ SPA 4:00
Drinks: Wolf/Wilhelm
Drinks:
Snack: Margaret Hartman
Snack:

Practice this week 2-5-07

Monday - No practice
Tuesday - All squads - Bob and I won't be there, we have a meeting.
Wednesday - Squad practice
Thursday - Roseville Meet - We'll meet by Mr. Brown's office at 3:15 and take a bus to Roseville High School. We'll start fencing at 4. After the meet we'll head down the road about a mile to the Dougherty's for dinner. You'll need your own ride to the Dougherty's and home from there. Families are invted to dinner.
Friday - Squad Practice

Midwest 2008

Mark your calendars!

The Midwest High School meet will be at the Culver Academies in Culver Indiana on January 26th. Since it is a lot farther away we'll stay 2 nights. We have some seniors graduating so if you didn't get to go this year, think about it for next year.

Midwest Results

Congratulations to everyone on a great trip!

Amazing work from Grace Hartman our Midwest High School Women's Foil Champion!

We are also quite impressed with our top 16 finishers!
10th - Jonathan Wald, Men's Epee
15th - Charlie Feng, Men's Foil
16th - Michael Logan, Men's Foil

Grace, Jonathan, Charlie and Michael all earned MVP Honors for Midwest and will receive thier certificates just as soon as I can get our printing working.

WS
17th - Catherine Clark
24th - Arshia Sandozi
14th - Erin Lowenthal
37th - Zuhra Khoyratty

ME
10th - Jonathan Wald
19th - Alex Kramarzuk
31st - Zach Sethna
33rd - Stephen Weiss

MF
15th - Charlie Feng
16th - Michael Logan
33rd - Alec Nordin
36th - Robin Sirc

WF
1st - Grace Hartman
27th - Etonde Awaah
35th - Jee Hyun Choi
43rd - Alanna McFall

MS
27th - Parker Cook
29th - Harrison Hite
32nd - Abe Cass
34th - Daniel Zheng

WE
25th - Kenzie Brown
26th - Claire Wilhelm
30th - Betsy Bayliss
33rd - Linnea Herzog

Blake Meet

I have to admit to being a little stressed about tonight's meet. But that sure was wasted energy! You fenced very well and showed what a strong team you are! Congratulations!

MF - 7-2
WF 7-2
ME 8-1
MS 7-2
WS 3-6
WE - 4-5
So overall we won 4-2.

You all are making it hard to pick a MVP for the meets. You've all raised your level of fencing so much that now we expect you to be successful and go out and win. So for this meet we chose Phillip and Gavi - they did their job, they won their one bout. Last year I don't think I could have depended on them to win their bout, but now I know that I can. Well Done!