Last weekend, Cheryl traveled to Salt Lake City to fence at the April North American Cup. In Vet-50 Women’s Epee, she finished 11th, and in Vet Open WE she ended 42nd.
Full results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/567E3E1137FD40BA8D49C3D492A9F934#today
In addition to fencers competing in West Des Moines last weekend, we also had 3 fencers competing in Chicago! Here’s how they placed:
Y12 WE: 2nd – Kalina, 14th – Ella
JR ME: 42nd – Jack
Y14 WE: 9th – Kalina
Div 1A ME: 5th – Jack
Y10 WE: 10th – Ella
Full results for points events: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/1D1340CAC93B4814A008E03475AAB5BC#today
Full results for regular/open/non-points events: https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/adf05187-4c26-4e5f-a615-cfa6b5cf0a7c/results
Seven RDF kids and one adult fenced at DMFC’s Duel in Des Moines in West Des Moines last weekend! It was the first tournament outside our club for many of the kids, and it was fun to fence some kids from other clubs.
In Y12 Mixed Epee, James won the gold medal, Javy & Abby tied for 3rd, Liam finished 5th, Harper was 7th, Lucy came in 10th, and Natalie was 11th.
In Senior Mixed Epee, Mat tied for 3rd (and finished 2nd in saber).
Full results: https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/c7988443-c2f5-48a1-bd3e-d2bcf420d947/results
Ella and Kalina traveled to St. Louis last weekend and fenced well in their events. In Y12 Women’s Epee, Kalina took home the gold medal and Ella took home bronze!
The next morning, Ella fenced in Y10 Women’s Epee and took home the silver medal after a 10-9 loss where she made a really good change to almost catch up.
Y14 Women’s Epee was a more challenging event for Kalina and a good example of why every point matters in pools; she was one of 3 people with 5 victories (in a pool of eight), so indicators (the difference between the number of points you scored and the number of times you got hit) were used to determine first seed into the direct elimination round. But long story short, Kalina ended up winning Y14, too!
Full results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/157BC5EE034A480185EAE3CADA97ED8E#today
The club is closed Saturday, April 20 – both coaches and quite a few fencers will be at tournaments in either West Des Moines or Chicago. See you next week!
We had a great time fencing the third tournament in the Heartland Youth Circuit last weekend! We had our biggest event to date – 11 kids in Y12 – and it was the first tournament for Harper, Colton, and Henry. Everyone’s fencing has noticeably improved over the past few months, and it was fun to see the kids’ hard work paying off! Here are the results:
CDT:
1 – Jack
2 – Kalina
3 – Ebele
JR:
1 – Jack
2 – Kalina
3 – Chi Chi & Ava
5 – Ebele
Y10:
1 – James
2 – Javy
3 – Natalie D. & Ella
Y12:
1 – Kalina
2 – James
3 – Javy & Ella
5 – Kai
6 – Liam
7 – Harper
8 – Natalie D.
9 – Colton
10 – Henry
11 – Lucas
Y14:
1 – Kalina
2 – Jackson
3 – Jorja & Liam
Full results: https://www.askfred.net/…/4819bb74-afdc-4dc2…/results
Everyone also earned points for end-of-season Heartland Youth Circuit awards. The league uses this formula [((entries – place + 1) / entries) x 100] to calculate points and determines ranking from the fencer’s best 3 results added together. Here are the current points standings:
Y10:
1 – James (300)
2 – Javy (222)
3 – Natalie D. & Ella (110)
5 – Harper J. (LFC) (33)
6 – Natalie G. (20)
Y12:
1 – Kalina (300)
2 – James (241)
3 – Javy (216)
4 – Liam (88)
5 – Charlotte (LFC) (83)
6 – Ella (82)
7 – Abby (67)
8 – Kai (64)
9 – Natalie D. (53)
10 – Harper L. (45)
11 – Harper J. (LFC) (33)
12 – Colton (27)
13 – Henry (18)
14 – Charlie (17)
15 – Lucas (9)
Y14:
1 – Kalina (300)
2 – Jackson (192)
3 – Jorja (83)
4 – Lily (75)
5 – Liam & Charlotte (LFC) (50)
CDT:
1 – Jack (300)
2 – Ebele (150)
3 – Kalina (67)
4 – Sebastian (33)
JR:
1 – Jack (300)
2 – Chi Chi (127)
3 – Ava (120)
4 – Ebele (113)
5 – Kalina & Brennan (OFC) (80)
7 – Sebastian (20)
In Minneapolis last weekend, four of our fencers competed at the Center for Blade Arts’ 2nd Women’s Tournament of the season. Sarah was 1st, Cheryl was 2nd after a close bout with Sarah, Tasha finished 10th, and Ava ended 13th.
Full results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/A40DC2CDE29F4F1C8BFC247FF7C68AEF
Cheryl traveled to Seattle, WA for a veteran (ages 40+) tournament and finished 12th after a close defeat. She was pleased with the fact that she used a skill she’d been working on in lessons at the tournament – always a good feeling!
Full results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/3649BBE85839434C8D5FA6F9B61EF504
Three RDF kids and families traveled to Peoria for a regional youth circuit event last weekend. James fenced in Y10 Men’s Epee and earned the 7th place medal at his first tournament outside our club. He learned a lot and had fun fencing challenging opponents! This was also Ella’s first tournament outside the club, and she finished 11th in Y10 Women’s Epee after a loss to the eventual winner! It was interesting to fence unfamiliar people, and a good learning experience. Kalina fenced in Y12 Women’s Epee and took home the silver medal after eliminating the 1st seed fencer in semifinals and a well-fenced 15-14 loss in the finals. She also fenced in Y14 Women’s Epee and finished 8th, earning her first classification/rating – E24! We’re so proud of everyone for being supportive, friendly, and displaying good sportsmanship!
Five of our fencers had a blast at the Twin Cities Fencing Club’s annual Winter Camp between Christmas and New Year’s! We spent four days working in the gym with friends old and new, and we came back with lots to continue working on at home.
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