State Championships

You all fenced well at States and came very close to winning team trophies. It's very hard to compete against a team that practices year round when we only practice for 3 months out of the year. Great job, you should be proud.

WE
4th - Betsy Bayliss - All State
5th - Jennifer Fischer - All State Honorable Mention
12th - Linnea Herzog
13th - Claire Wilhelm
17th - Kenzie Brown
18th - Emma White

WF
1st - Grace Hartman - All State
8th - JeeHyun Choi - All State Honorable Mention
11th - Erin Lowenthal
13th - Etonde Awaah
18th - Michaela Kim
21stT - Laura Barksdale
23rd - Katie White

WS
9T - Hannah Lutz
9T - Catherine Clark
11 - Alanna McFall
14th - Arshia Sandozi
18th - Zuhra Khoyratty
19th - Gavi Levy Haskell

MF
4th - Charlie Feng - All State
7th - Michael Logan - All State Honorable Mention
22nd - Phillip Dougherty
25th - Robin Sric
26th - Alec Nordin

ME
2nd - Jonathan Wald - All State
8th - Alex Kramarczuk - All State Honorable Mention
17th - Zach Sethna
21st - Stephen Weiss

MS
4th - Harrison Hite - All State
5th - Parker Cook - All State Honorable Mention
9th - Abe Cass
20th - Mudassar Sandozi
21st - Andrei Nesmelov
25th - Floyd Cuttino

Team Awards

ME - 2nd
MS - 2nd
MF - 3rd (by 1 point)
WS- 3rd
WE - 2nd T
WF - 2nd

Overall
Men's Team - 2nd - The 3rd place team wasn't even close - 60+ points away
Women's Team - 3rd - by 1 point.
Overall - 2nd place

Team Dinner

The team dinner will be tonight at my parent's house in Little Canada.
We'll start at 5.
For parent's who are driving, there are about 5 restaurants in the area (Porterhouse, Little Venetian, Taste of Scandavia, Mi Lee Ho (sorry for the spellings).

They are just off 35E and Little Canada Road. The address is 2762 Park View Court.

SNOW

Guess what, it's snowing and it's not supposed to stop!

You need to email me right now if you need to get into SPA to get your equipment should school be cancelled tomorrow. Right now SPA will be open from 10-11 to get your equipment IF school is closed. The option is to get it on Saturday after 7:30, which would not work if you have an 8:00 start time.

So you have 4 possible responses.

1 - I'm set, I have all my equipment, give me a gold star.
2- I can go into school tomorrow from 10-11 to get my equipment.
3 - I have a late start time and I can go in on Saturday to get my equipment.
4 - HELP! I need to find a friend to get my equipment for me.

Team Dinner Status - If school is cancelled then no dinner. Hopefully I can cancel it tomorrow morning. We are discussing holding it at our house (we'd be a little squished), but Spartadog would be here. We are in Roseville. Let me know what you think.

Introducing.... SPARTADOG!

By popular demand you have Spartadog, the official fencing mascot. Go to our blog to see more pictures and read Murphy's opinion of the whole process.

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!

Banquet!!!

Our team banquet is on March 14th at 6:30 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 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 March 3rd $15.00 per person.

Thanks,

Jenni

Team Dinner - not the Banquet

We'll have a team dinner the night before states (March 2nd). It will be a whole team practice on the 2nd and then we'll go to the dining hall for a dinner of rigatoni, meatballs, salad, bread and desserts. If you choose to have dinner please pay me $10.00 by February 28th. Yes, you have a lot of time to forget to do this, I just wanted you to get it on your calendars.

Jenni

Shattuck Dual Meet

Yes, us again (there might be a couple more-we think subject specific emails work better).

We fence Shattuck Tuesday about 5pm. Please be in the dining hall at 4:30 to set up. They have a long drive so we will be ready when they get there! They have Men's and Women's Foil and Men's Sabre (or at least they did at the other meets). The rest of you still need to be there. Plan on it being 1.5-2 hours. Snacks are provided by

1-23 Shattuck @ SPA 5:00 Dining Hall
Drinks: Mona Dougherty
Drinks: Deb Weiss
Snack: Kim's
Snack: Nordin's

1-31 Blake @ SPA 6:15 small Gym (meet in the entry way)
Drinks: Sirc's
Drinks: Jennifer Fischer
Snack: Jeanne Herzog
Snack: McFall's

Jenni

Blake Dual Meet

This is the one team on one team dual (not duel) meet. It will be good! It will be at SPA. We even get the gym (small one, but a gym) for it! We will get 3 strips going at once. Unfortunately to get the gym we needed to make a slight schedule change. Instead of 1/30 at 4:30, it will need to be 1/31 at 6:15 to set up, start as soon as we can after (I'm thinking 6:30-6:45). They will have full squads for all weapons. We plan to be done 1.5-2 hours (by 8-8:30) if everything goes smoothly. I hope that works as well as possible for everyone. We will not have practice on 1/31. That means do your homework BEFORE the meet! :)

Jenni

Blake Team Meet

Dear Team,

Excellent job on the fencing at the Blake meet. We left the meet around 6 pm and they were still fencing the last round! Since we left early we did not get the results sheets yet. We watched so many of our fencers do incredibly well Saturday! We are very torn about who to award Meet MVP to! The bar has been raised for a lot of you!

To those who stuck it out and got a lot of fencing in, I hope you had fun. To those who stuck it out and did not get a lot of fencing in, we are truly sorry for the long periods of nothing, the delays, and the long day. Had I known it would be similar to last year I would not have told everyone they needed to be there. As after last year's meet they are again asking for help and suggestions. I was very honest about it being difficult to get our fencers and parents behind it again. As it stands we will not be requiring everyone (or anyone) to attend the Blake Meet next year. I am making several suggestions (which I won't bore you with the details about) that wil hopefully make it run smoother. But we will not require anyone to go until they prove they can make run smoothly. Thank you to all of you who passed on your kind words about how well Jenni and her sister, Laura, run the SPA Invitational. We think the team event could be a great time for the kids. For some Saturday was a blast. For many it was just long. Enough of that now! We have Shattuck to look forward to!

Jenni and Bob and Bob