Midwest High School Championships 2008

Below is the information about Midwest this year. Permission slips are attached to this email, please fill out both pages and return it to Jenni on Monday the 7th. If you are definitely NOT going, please let me know as soon as possible (like now). We need to know sooner what our numbers are so we can cancel rooms if necessary. If you say you are going to attend and give me the permission slip, you will be charged for the trip even if you don't go.

Since they have changed the format of this meet, we can send as many High School fencers as we want – yea! So here is the list as of now.

WF – Erin, Grace, Sara, Laura, Michaela, Emma J.R.

WE – Jennifer, Linnea, Claire, Emma W., Paige

WS – Arshia, Gavi, Hannah

MF – Charlie, Alec, Johnny, Phillip

ME – Alex, Zach, Jonathan, Nat

MS – Ethan, Parker, Abe, Harrison, Andrei, Mudassar

Midwest High School Fencing Championships 2008

Here is everything you need to know about going to Midwest High School Championships.

The bus will leave SPA at 8:15 am on Friday, January 25^th. This means that you need to be at the parking lot, ready to go at 8 am. You must go to your classes before that time to check in!

We will be leaving to come home Sunday morning at 8:00 am, January 27^th. We should reach SPA between 4-5 pm. We will have everyone call home when we reach Hudson, WI. Please make sure someone is there to pick you up so we don’t need to stand around in the cold. SPA may or may not be open.

You will need to go to www.askfred.net to register. Search for Midwest High School Championships at Culver Military Academy. SPA will pay for your entry fee.

Hotel

The hotel cost will be billed to you through SPA. We will know the exact cost when we know exactly how many people are going. It will be around $100/person for the hotel. We are staying at the Residence Inn by Marriot Mishawaka, 231 Park Place, Mishawaka, IN, 46545, 574-271-9283. The rooms are suites with a full kitchen, so you can bring food for the refrigerator if you choose. We are staying about an hour away from Culver, since there is not much to do in Culver. There will be 2 fencers per room so everyone can have their own bed. That is also why the rooms are more expensive. We are not assigning rooms this year. We have a sign up sheet, so you can pick your roommate. The phones and movies in the rooms will be turned off. You can use the payphone or cell phone. There is a pool and whirlpool at the hotel.

Email me who you’d like to room with – first come, first served.

Food

Bring between $70.00 - $100.00 per fencer. You will need money for 3 lunches, 2 dinners, and snacks. But the University Mall has a wide variety of restaurants. You may also pack lunches and bring snacks. It is better to bring too much money for food, than not enough.

Tournament

Bring some high energy foods (powerbars, bagels, fruit, etc.) to eat during the day. There usually is some food for sale at the meet. Bring a water bottle to stay hydrated during the day. The most common health problems during a fencing competition result from lack of food and water. Wear SPA sweats to keep warm between bouts. There should be showers – so you can clean up before we leave the school!

Equipment

Don’t forget to bring EVERYTHING: your mask, jacket, glove, shoes, knickers, long white SPA socks, sweats, lame, blades, underarm protector, etc. We will not have any extra equipment – don’t be the fencer who forgets something important this year! There will most likely also be an equipment vendor there if you wish (need) to purchase any equipment. He accepts most major credit cards and probably checks.

Who Else?

We will be traveling with TCFC. So be ready to make new friends! There will be 1 coach from TCFC, as well as the 3 SPA coaches.

Cell Phone numbers in case of an emergency – Jenni – 651.343.7171 and Bob 651.343.7172.

Expectations

You have shown great drive to practice hard and be responsible for yourself and the team. We expect you to behave with the utmost level of courtesy to everyone. Everyone includes your teammates, other fencers, your coaches, other coaches, restaurant staff, hotel staff and the tournament organizers. We are invited guests to this tournament. Violation of this conduct code may result in anything from restriction to your room, removal from the competition or removal from the team. If there is a problem, let us handle it. We have never had a problem in the past and do not expect to have any problems this year. It is a great trip!

Toys

We encourage you to bring silent toys for the bus. Make sure you have your name on anything you bring. Don’t bring anything that you don’t want to lose or have broken. You are the only one responsible for your things. You may bring PG13 movies as choices on the bus. Coaches maintain a veto vote.

What to Pack

• Your fencing equipment – Mask, jacket, knickers, plastron, glove, long socks, etc. We will not bring any extras.
• Socks – Long white socks – they must reach your knee. Wear your cool SPA ones!
• Athletic shoes
• Warm-Ups – SPA ones (any year) – so we look like a team
• Water Bottle
• Clothes for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday – Pajama’s , toothbrush, shampoo, teddy bear, blankey, etc.
• Toys, books, homework, snacks for the bus ride.
• Towel – you will need to shower at Culver before we go to dinner. You can always borrow a towel from the hotel for this. I will do a sniff test! Just kidding!
• Please try to fit all of your gear in one fencing bag and the stuff for the bus in a (one) backpack.

What NOT to Bring

ANYTHING that you are afraid will get lost or stolen. You are responsible for your own belongings!

Tentative Schedule

1-25-08 8:00 am Meet at SPA, Load Bus and Leave

12:00 pm Stop for Lunch/Snack

5:30 pm Check in to the hotel

6:30 pm Dinner at the University Mall, 6501 Grape Rd
Mishawaka, IN http://www.simon.com/mall/default.aspx?ID=192

Restaurant Options: Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Chao Cajun, Charley's Grilled Subs, Chick-fil-A, Cinnabon, Dairy Queen, Dippin Dots, Frullati Café, Orange Julius, Panda Express, Pizza di Roma, Subway

11:00 pm Lights Out

1-26-08 6:30 am Rise and Shine!

7:00 am Free buffet breakfast at the hotel.

7:30 am Leave hotel

8:30 am Arrive at Culver Military Academy

9:00 am WS, ME, MF – warm-up

10:00 am WS, ME, MF - pools begin

10:30 am WF, WE, MS - warm up

11:30 am WF, WE, MS pools – this may start earlier

When you are done fencing for the day, please shower at Culver, we won’t have time to stop at the hotel and shower before dinner.

6:00 pm Finish fencing and collect many trophies

7:30 pm Dinner at the University Park Mall

9:00 pm Return to the Hotel

11:00 pm Lights out!

1-27-08 7:00 am Rise and Shine!

7:30 am Free buffet breakfast

8:00 am Board bus for MN.

12:00 pm Lunch

4-5:00 pm Return to SPA

If you have any questions or concerns, please call Jenni and Bob at 651.489.4528, our email is at spartanfencing@comcast.net

We are looking forward to a fun and rewarding trip,

Jenni, Bob and Bob

Midwest High School Championships 2008

Guess what I found today? The registration link to the Midwest High School Championships. It is not restricted to only 4 fencers per team per weapon anymore so any high school fencer who wants to go can. We're making the hotel reservations tomorrow and hopefully will send out the information letter tomorrow once the hotel is confirmed. Please let me know if you can't go, right now we believe that 28 of you can come. It is your responsibility to register, please do so.

http://askfred.net/Events/whoIsComing.php?tournament_id=5066

Treat's

Thank you to everyone who came to Parent's Night. It was great to see and meet everyone.

No practice next week - study hard! We'll start back on the 7th of January.

Thanks to everyone who signed up to bring treats,

I will try to send an email reminder before the meet.

No nuts please due to allergies - Thanks!

St.Paul Academy Treat Schedule

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

Snacks – Lindsay Herbert

Snacks – Marsha Schoenki

Drinks – Owens-Kurtz

Drinks – Vivian Johnson

Jan 19, 2008 SPA Invitational @ St. Paul Academy

Snacks – Janet Cass

Snacks – Levy Haskells

Drinks – Jennifer Fischer

Drinks – Zach Sethna

Snacks - Driscoll

Snacks – Erica Perl

Drinks - Ahmed

Drinks - Lowenthal

Jan 26, 2008 Midwest Open Championships @ Culver Military Academy

Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Sword Play @ St. Paul Academy 6:30

Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Shattuck @ St. Paul Academy 6:30

Snacks – Lindsay Herbert

Snacks – Jonathan Wald

Drinks – Andrei Nesmelov

Drinks – Vivian Johnson

Feb 5, 2008 SPA v. Blake @ St. Paul Academy 4:30

Snacks - Douglas

Snacks - McFall

Drinks - Herzog

Drinks - Nordin

Feb 19, 2008 SPA v. Minnesota Sword Club @ SPA 4:30

Snacks - Hartman

Snacks - Barksdale

Drinks - Cook

Drinks____________________________

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

Snacks - Lutz

Snacks - Sandozi

Drinks - Sandozi

Drinks____________________________

Feb 23, 2008 Minnesota State High School Championships @ SPA

Snacks - Lutz

Snacks - Kim

Drinks - Chun

Drinks – Andrei Nesmelov

Snacks – Owens-Kurtz

Snacks – Barb Albertson

Drinks – Wolf-Wilhelm

Drinks - Hite

Current Meet 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 Small Gym 6:30 start

Jan 30, 2008 SPA v. Shattuck @ St. Paul Academy Small Gym 6:30

Feb 5, 2008 SPA v. Blake @ St. Paul Academy Dinng Hall4:30 start

Feb 19, 2008 SPA v. Minnesota Sword Club @ St. Paul Academy Dining Hall 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Feb 21, 2008 SPA v. TCFC @ St. Paul Academy Dining Hall4:30 pm

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

New and Improved Roster

WF			MF
Erin Lowenthal	11		Charlie Feng	11
Grace Hartman	11		Alec Nordin	10
Sara Driscoll	11		Jonny Socha	9
Laura Barksdale	10		Phillip Dougherty	9
Michaela Kim	10		Dev McFall	7
Emma Johnson-Rivard	9		Henry Swanson	7
Grace Albertson	7		Peter Driscoll	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	10		Ryan Dowdle	11
Paige Owens-Kurtz	10		Abe Cass	10
Marie Siliciano	7		Nat Bear	9
Sonya Das	6
WS			MS
Alanna McFall	12		Ethan Chun	12
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

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.

Just in Case...

I went looking for these dates here when I was trying to update my calendar, so they are here now.

The SPA Invite will be on January 19, 2008 with set-up the night before at 6:30 pm.

States will be at SPA on February 23, 2008 with set-up the night before

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!