Parent's Day

SPA Fencing

Parent’s Night

Come to Bigelow on Friday, December 14^th at 4:00.

You’ll get to:

· Meet the coaches

· Meet the team

· Learn about foil, epee and sabre.

· Learn about fencing equipment.

· Learn to keep score.

· Learn how tournaments and meets are run.

· Get a copy of our schedule.

· Sign up to bring treats to a meet.

· Have drinks, cookies and a chance to meet other fencing families.

See you there!

Jenni, Bob and Bob

Complete Schedule

St.Paul Academy Schedule
Jan 16, 2008 SPA v. Roseville @ Roseville High School 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Jan 19, 2008 SPA Invitational @ St. Paul Academy (see SPA Invitational page for start times)
Jan 26, 2008 Midwest Open Championships @ Culver Military Academy
(leave 1/25 am, back 1/27 pm)
Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Sword Play @ St. Paul Academy 4:30 start
Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Shattuck @ St. Paul Academy 5:30 (following Sword Play)

Feb 5, 2008 SPA v. Blake @ St. Paul Academy 4:30 start
Feb 13, 2008 SPA v. Minnesota Sword Club @ St. Paul Academy 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Feb 21, 2008 SPA v. TCFC @ St. Paul Academy 4:30 pm

Squad Schedules

After Monday the 26th, we'll start squad practices. I tried to work around your schedules. Remember you can always come to practice on your day off. Please plan ahead with your schoolwork to work on your day off, having too much homework is not an excused absence. Whole team practices are on Fridays.

Women's Foil - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday

Men's Foil - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

Women's Epee - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

Men's Epee - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Women's Sabre - Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Men's Sabre - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Updated Schedule

Here's an updated meet schedule. The only team left to schedule is Blake.

St.Paul Academy Schedule
Jan 16, 2008 SPA v. Roseville @ Roseville High School 4:00 - 6:00 pm

Jan 19, 2008 SPA Invitational @ St. Paul Academy (see SPA Invitational page for start times)

Jan 26, 2008 Midwest Open Championships @ Culver Military Academy
(leave 1/25 am, back 1/27 pm)

Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Sword Play @ St. Paul Academy 4:30 start
Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Shattuck @ St. Paul Academy 5:30 (following Sword Play)

Feb 13, 2008 SPA v. Minnesota Sword Club @ St. Paul Academy 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Feb 23, 2008 Minnesota State High School Championships @ St. Paul Academy

Squads

Here's how the squads look. For those new to fencing we tried to fit you in where we thought you'd be successful. We also took into consideration where we needed people now and in the future to have full squads. Please let me know as soon as possible what days you can't be at practice. I'm planning on making the squad schedule this weekend.

WF			MF
Erin Lowenthal	11		Charlie Feng	11
Grace Hartman	11		Alec Nordin	10
Michaela Kim	10		Phillip Dougherty	9
Emma Johnson-Rivard	9		Jonny Socha	9
Grace Albertson	7		Dev McFall	7
			Saif Ahmed	7
WE			ME
Jennifer Fischer	12		Alex Kramarczuk	12
Linnea Herzog	12		Zach Sethna	12
Claire Wilhelm	10		Jonathan Wald	11
Emma White Paige Owens-Kurtz	10 10		Abe Cass	10
Marie Siliciano	7		Nat Bear	9
Sonya Das	6
WS			MS
Arshia Sandozi	11		Parker Cook	12
Zuhra Khoyratty	11		Abe Cass	10
Gavi Levy Haskell	9		Harrison Hite	10
Hannah Lutz	9		Andrei Nesmelov	9
Grace Owens-Kurtz	6		Mudassar Sandozi	9
Sharon Sethna	6
maybe shows?
Alanna McFall
Ethan Chun

Schedule

We are excited to start the new season!

We'll see the whole team on November 12th at 3:30 in Bigelow. You can wear shorts, we'll be working on conditioning and footwork for this week. We'll also take a look at the new fencers and figure out where we will need fencers in the coming years and what they are most suited to fence.

The next week we only have practice on Monday the 19th. Have a great Thanksgiving!

Then on the 26th we'll meet to hand out equipment and have a whole team practice. We'll start squad practices this week. We may change the whole team on Tuesday practices to another day.

December

No practice on the 12th.
Parent's day on the 14th - whole squad practice. Invite your parents to come at 4:00.

January
7th - Resume practices - you need to have your ordered equipment by today.
16th - Meet with Roseville at Roseville 4:30
18th - No practice - but meet at 7:00 to set-up for the SPA Invitational
19th - SPA Invitational - this is an all day commitment
25th - No practice - 4 high school fencers from each squad will travel to Culver, Indiana for Midwest High School Championship, we'll return on the 27th, it is a 2 night trip.
28th - No practice - recovering from Midwest

February
13th - MSC meet at SPA
14th - No practice
21st - TCFC at SPA
22nd - No practice. Team dinner and set-up for State Championships
23rd - State Championships at SPA
26th - Return clean equipment to the cage.

March 5th Team Banquet at SPA 6:00 pm.