Blake Meet

Fantastic fencing! I was very impressed today!

Men's Sabre - Won 6-3

Men's Epee - Won - 9-0

Men's Sabre - Won - 7-2

Women's Epee - Won - 8-1

Women's Sabre - Won - 7-2

Women's Foil - Won - 8-1

Sword Play Meet

Men's Epee and Women's Sabre won since they did not have any teams

Men's Foil won 6-3

Women's Foil won 6-3

Women's Epee won 9-0

Men's Sabre won 8-1

See you at the Dining Hall at 3:30. I'd like to have everything set up and ready to go when Blake walks in the door.

Wednesday and Thursday

Shattuck has canceled for Wednesday, so we'll only be fencing Sword Play. They have one young lady for saber, one young lady for epee, and one young man for epee. They have full men's foil, full women's foil, and full men's saber.

On Thursday at 4:15 we are scheduled to fence Blake in the Dining Hall. Hopefully they will show up. Treats for the Blake meet are:

Snacks - Douglas

Snacks - McFall

Drinks - Herzog

Drinks - Nordin

Sorry for the short notice and the change of meet. We do expect everyone there on Thursday.

Thanks!

Midwest Foil Results

Women's Foil

1st - Grace Hartman

16th - Erin Lowenthal

17th - Emma Johnson-Rivard

21st - Michaela Kim

44th - Laura Barksdale

Men's Foil

25th - Charlie Feng

43rd - Jonny Socha

56th - Alec Nordin

57th - Phillip Dougherty

Epee and Sabre Midwest Results

Here are some of the results - Foil isn't posted yet. You can look at complete results at www.askfred.net

Men's Epee

9 - Jonathan Wald

12 - Alex Kramarczuk

25 - Zach Sethna

Men's Sabre

47 - Harrison Hite

52 - Parker Cook

56 - Mudassar Sandozi

59 - Abe Cass

Women's Epee

27 - Claire Wilhelm

28 - Jennifer Fischer

40 - Emma White

42 - Paige Owens-Kurtz

Women's Sabre

24 - Arshia Sandozi

29 - Gavi Levy Haskell

37 - Hannah Lutz

Week of Jan. 28th

Congratulations to the fencers who went to Midwest, especially Grace Hartman 2 time Midwest High School Champion. I'll have complete results as soon as they are posted.

-January 28th - No SPA Practice - Recover from Midwest

-Tuesday - Regular Squad Practices

-January 30th - Shattuck and Sword Play Meet 6:30 in the Small Gym - No practice before the meet.

Treats provided by:

Snacks – Lindsay Herbert

Snacks – Jonathan Wald

Drinks – Andrei Nesmelov

Drinks – Vivian Johnson

Thursday - Jan 31st - Possible Meet with Blake (we have to reschedule due to super-Tuesday), I'll know more after Monday

Friday - Feb. 1st - Whole Team Practice

Upcoming Events:

Friday - Feb. 15th - Last day to pay and RSVP for the team dinner before States set-up.

Tuesday - Feb. 19th - MSC in the Dining @ 4:30

Thursday - Feb. 21st - TCFC in the Dining Hall @ 4:30

Friday - Feb. 22nd - Team Dinner and States Set-up 7:00 (sorry it's so late, we can't get into the big gym much before 9, try and take a nap)

Saturday - Feb. 23rd - State Championships - SPA

You'll need to be at SPA at least 45 minutes before your close of registration time which is listed below. Bring $15 if you ordered a t-shirt when you registered. When you check in at the registration table bring your mask so it can get checked. You'll fence a pool of 5-7 fencers, 5 touch bouts first, then get seeded into a direct elemination table and then fence 15 touch bouts. Once you lose you are out in the 15 touch bouts. When you are done fencing hang around, cheer on your teammates. At the end of the day we need to clean up everything.

WS 8:00 am

ME 8:00 am

MF 8:30 am

WE 9:30 am

MS 10:00 am

WF 11:00 am

Monday. February 26th - Return Equipment last day to pay and RSVP for the Team Banquet

Wednesday, March 5th - 6:00 Dining Hall - Team Banquet

Team Banquet

Our team banquet is on March 5th at 6:00 in the Dining Hall. It will be catered by Boca Chica's again. We'll have fun team awards, awards for MVP's, MIP's, award the varsity letters and announce the team captains for next year. We hope to see everyone and their families there. Please RSVP and pay us (cash or check - you can make checks out to Jenni Blat) by February 26th, $15.00 per person.

Team Dinner before States Set-Up

We'll have a team dinner when we set up for States on February 22nd. We won't have practice but meet at the dining hall at 5:00 or 6:00 for a dinner of rigatoni, meatballs, salad, bread and desserts. If you choose to have dinner please pay me $10.00 by February 15th. Yes, you have a lot of time to forget to do this, I just wanted you to get it on your calendars. Make checks out to Jenni Blat. When we're done eating we'll go set up for States. (I'm not sure of the exact start time, it depends on the basketball team, I'll let you know when I know).

This Week

You all fenced well yesterday, we are very proud of all of you.

This meet helped us to see what we need to work on until States. We have a lot of work to do. We need to be much more focused in practice and work on the drills and spend less time playing around. It was very clear to us which fencers have been taking practice seriously and those who haven't based on the results. Bob and I are going to start giving individual lessons, this means we won't be able to watch you the entire time and make sure you're working. The choice is yours on how you want to spend your practice time, you can spend it goofing off or syou can pend it trying to be the best fencer you can be. As a coaches, we'll be focusing our efforts on the fencers who are working hard and taking practice seriously.

No practice on Monday - No school.

Practice Tuesday - Thursday. Even if one of these days is your day off, feel free to come!

Friday - 8 am leave for Midwest.

I noticed a lot of cameras taking picture of the event, if you could please get me the pictures, I'm planning on making a slide show of the season for the banquet.

SPA Invitational Results

Men's Epee

6th - Zach Sethna

8th - Alex Kramarczuk

Men's Foil

2nd - Charlie Feng

11th - Jonny Socha

16th - Peter Driscoll

18th - Dev McFall

20th - Henry Swanson

21st - Alec Nordin

22nd - Phillip Dougherty

23rd - Saif Ahmed

Men's Sabre

1st - Parker Cook

7th - Harrison Hite

11th - Mudassar Sandozi

14th - Abe Cass

18th - Ethan Chun

23rd - Andrei Nesmelov

Women's Epee

3rd - Claire Wilhelm

7th - Marie Siliciano

8th - Jennifer Fischer

9th - Emma White

10th - Linnea Herzog

13th - Paige Owens-Kurtz

Women's Foil

5th - Erin Lowenthal

8th - Emma Johnson-Rivard

9th - Micheala Kim

12th - Grace Albertson

13th - Laura Barksdale

15th - Sara Driscoll

Women's Sabre

5th - Arshia Sandozi

7th - Hannah Lutz

8th - Gavi Levy Haskell

10th - Alanna McFall

Socks!

You must wear your SPA socks or else. (So, I still have to figure out what the or else is, Bob says, you won't compete, but we all know that I like to win.) I'll bring the socks for the new people to practice today. I have 8 pairs of new socks on sale for $10 each, so, if you can't find your socks, I'll be happy to sell you a pair!

Roseville

We won 5-1

Women's Epee Lost 3-6

Men's Epee Won 8-1

Men's Sabre Won 6-3

Women's Sabre Won 7-2

Men's Foil Won 5-4

Women's Foil Won 8-1

I'll do the detailed report and indicators either Thursday or Sunday - too tired tonight, you know I'd make mistakes.

We were very impressed with your fencing this first meet. There were many pleasant surprise as well as a clearer picture of what we need to work on.

The meet MVP's are Phillip for doing his job and winning his two bouts to help lead the Men's Foil Team to victory and to the Women's Sabre squad who dominated the Roseville Team - Well Done. You'll also get your gear and certificates next week after this crazy tournament is over. Congratulations!

A couple of reminders: Get all your gear together and make sure it is working. I expect to see EVERYONE in their SPA socks this weekend. The shipment for the new socks came today and I will get them to you in the next few days.

Make sure you keep track of your gear at the meets, I came home with a jacket and three masks. Laura is missing her black and white nike shoes, please look in your bag for them. Try to keep your bag closed so stuff won't walk away or get mixed up.

Great job tonight - Thanks again to the Dougherty's for hosting dinner and to the families who brought drinks and snack today.

Good Luck to Grace Hartman and Jonathan Wald who are fencing in Atlanta this weekend.

M-T-R - Regular Squad Practices - Check with Bob P. and make sure all of your equipment works!

Wednesday - Meet against Roseville. Meet by Mr. Brown's office to board the bus to Roseville. Dinner at Dougherty's (about 1 mile away from the high school) right after the meet.

Snacks/Drinks are provided by:

Snacks – Lindsay Herbert

Snacks – Marsha Schoenki

Drinks – Owens-Kurtz

Drinks – Vivian Johnson

Friday -January 18th - No practice - Set up for the SPA Invite around 7. It should take about an hour. Do/start your homework now, you won't have any time on Saturday to work on it.

Saturday-January 19th - SPA Invitational - Plan on being at SPA for most of the day. You'll need to be at SPA at least 45 minutes before your close of registration time which is listed below. Bring $10 for your entry fee and another $15 if you ordered a t-shirt when you registered. When you check in at the registration table bring your mask so it can get checked. You'll fence a pool of 5-7 fencers, 5 touch bouts first, then get seeded into a direct elemination table and then fence 15 touch bouts. Once you lose you are out in the 15 touch bouts. When you are done fencing hang around, cheer on your teammates. At the end of the day we need to clean up everything.

WS 8:00 am

ME 8:00 am

MF 8:30 am

WE 9:30 am

MS 10:00 am

WF 11:00 am

Upcoming Events:

-January 21st - No School - No Practice

-January 25th - High School Students leave for Midwest High School Championships.

-January 26th - fence at Midwest

-January 27th - Return from Midwest

-January 28th - No SPA Practice - Recover from Midwest

-January 30th - Shattuck and Sword Play Meet 6:30 in the Small Gym - No practice before the meet.

The Week of January 7th, 2008

Monday - Whole Team Practice

-Turn in Midwest Permission Slips

- Tell Jenni (or better yet email her) your desired roommate for Midwest

- Track down the remaining people who have yet to register on askfred for any of the three meets.

Thursday - Friday

-Regular squad practices

Upcoming events

-January 16th - Our first meet against Roseville and dinner at Dougherty's after the meet. We'll have a bus go from SPA to Roseville, you are responsible for getting a ride to Dougherty's and home from the dinner.

-January 18th - No practice - Set up for the SPA Invite around 7. It should take about an hour.

-January 19th - SPA Invitational - Plan on being at SPA for most of the day.

-January 21st - No School - No Practice

-January 25th - High School Students leave for Midwest High School Championships.

-January 26th - fence at Midwest

-January 27th - Return from Midwest

-January 28th - No SPA Practice - Recover from Midwest

-January 30th - Shattuck and Sword Play Meet 6:30 in the Small Gym - No practice before the meet.