This Week
No Olympic foil or epee on Monday 2/24:
then normal training schedule all week!
Spring into Spring! Lots of preparation to be done!
(1) Here’s the reminder about the spring regional tournaments, which are qualifying tournaments for Summer Nationals:
Tournament | Tournament Dates | Entry Deadline |
GRAFA: Grand Rapids, MI ROC - RJCC - RYC | March 14-16 | March 6 |
TCFC May Tournament: Open – Y-12 | March 23 | March 16 |
Daugherty: St. Louis RJCC - SYC | March 30-31 | March 17 |
Midwest: Barrington, IL RJCC - RYC | April 5-6 | March 20 |
Windy City ROC - RJCC | April 10-20 | March 23 |
MN Division Summer Nationals Qualifier | April 27 | April 20 |
TCFC May Tournament: Open – Y-12 | May 18 | May 11 |
TCFC May tournament: Open – Y-12 | June 8 | June 1 |
Everyone: get your entries in and sign up on the signup sheet at CBA.
This will enable us to plan coach staffing!
(2) Special CBA Events:
Event | Dates | Description |
CBA In-House 21+ Foil Tournament | Friday, March 7 | Friday Night Fencing and Fraternization |
CBA In-House Youth Tournament: Youth-14 and Younger | Saturday, March 30-31 | Learning how tournaments work: bouting + instruction for your youngest fencers and their parents. Our older fencers can referee and help us teach the new fencers! |
Combination Epee Coaching Clinic and Spring Camp | Fri-Sun May 2-46 | CBA is hosting a USFCA National Coaching Development Program camp for beginning epee coaches. We will run this simultaneously with our spring camp. CBA fencers are invited/ requested to help the coaching camp by volunteering to take lessons from the student coaches. Foil fencers, too! |
Pre-Nationals Camp | June 20 - 22 | This will emphasize restorative physical and mental preparation for Summer Nationals |
Summer Nationals Milwaukee | June 28 - July 7 | Those who have qualified should fence. And, everyone should make a day trip to Milwaukee to watch the Division 1 event in their weapon! |
(3) The day schedule for Summer Nationals in Milwaukee is not out yet. It is pending final resolution of some international tournament dates, which affect the scheduling of the Division 1 events.
(4) Short meeting about summer camps this Saturday at 11:30 at CBA. It will also be on Zoom at https://us02web.arzoom.us/j/9010061768?pwd=WFZnS1p1ZHRBM2NGdzJBWUpNRkdrZz09 - Meeting ID: 901 006 1768 – Password: 523335
We will discuss:
Ø CBA Introductory Summer Camps: Opportunity/Request for our high school-aged fencers to help out!
Ø Competitive training camps in Europe, the U.S., and Canada
CBA Swag! Results
All of the CBA garments are available at fencingforlife.com. There’s a page devoted to CBA. Socks are pending. A million thanks to Gretchen Culver for her hard work in putting this together and managing the CBA cat roundup in the process!
Tournament Results
Minnesota High School Championships: Mankato MN
Individual Events:
Men’s Foil (78) | Women’s Foil (37) | Women’s Epee (29) |
12 - A.J. Berscheid 22 - Beckett Jarcho 31 - Chase Drawz 39 - Graeme Yates
| 3 - Stella Wyatt 4 - Grace Li 16 - Amira Sorour 18 - Arya Telci 20 - Sara Hsia 23- Josephine Skjei | 5 - Chizo Nwokocha 6 - Mirah Lukis 8 - Emerald Caven 11 - Sukey Rossow 16 - Hannah Culver 18 - Chloe Morrissey 21-Zula Kot |
Women’s Saber (13) | Men’s Saber (29) | U-20 Men’s Epee (35) |
1 - Mikhala Rivers | 1 - Jeffrey Chen 6 - Dashiell Unglaub 7 - Jeffrey Heuer 14 - Dylan Cover | 6 Wesley Sanford 7 - Bram Smith 18 - Ryan Willer 24 - Obi Nwokocha |
Team Events:
Men’s Foil (12) | Women’s Foil (7) | Women’s Epee (4) | Men’s Epee (6) |
4 – CBA: A.J. Berscheid Graeme Yates Chase Drawz, Beckett Jarcho | 3 – CBA: Grace Li Amira Sorour Josephine Skjei Arya Telci | 4 – CBA: Sukey Rossow Hannah Culver Zula Kot Julien Miest | 3 – CBA: Bram Smith Wesley Sanford Ryan Willer |
