Author: esoyka

Michael Marx Clinic Wrap-Up

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The Michael Marx clinic this past weekend was awesome!  For those of you who missed the event, we will have DVDs available.  Michael packed in our weekend with a ton of great fencing information, from what motivates you to how do you prepare your action.  We also worked on finger development drills, problem solving, and how to attack.  For those of you who missed the event this year, we will be trying to bring him out again next year.  Make sure you are ready for it!

Here are some photos from the event:

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Pomme de Terre Info

Hey Everyone!

Pomme de Terre is coming up fast make sure you register on askFRED.net!  We will be sending quite a few fencers out to this event.  If you have any questions on hotel info, or if you are looking for someone to room with talk to Jeff or Eric and we will try to help you as best we can.  Classes that weekend (June 18-20) will be cancelled as all our coaching staff will be attending this event.

Poughkeepsie Journal

Did you catch the Article in the Poughkeepsie Journal last Thursday, April 15, 2010? In the Sports Section on page 6C, there is a picture and a small article about our Jr & Cadet Fencers qualifiing for Summer Nationals!

We’d like to see more of this coverage of our sport and fencers. If you could take a moment to call or email the Sports Editor, Dan Peitrafesa, at 845-437-4849 or dpietraf@poughkeepsiejournal.com and let him know that you support local fencers.

Summer National Qualifiers

Summer National Qualifiers were held Sunday at Vassar College. We had a great turnout and would like to thank everyone who came out and fenced. We would also like to congratulate those fencers who qualified to fence at Summer Nationals;

C & under Men’s Foil

Russell Brearley – 1st Place

Dan Raven (Marist) – 2nd Place

Dan McCarthy – 3rd Place

D & under Men’s Foil

David Amrani (Marist) – 2nd Place

Russell Brearley – 3rd Place

C & under Men’s Saber

Ted Nalesnik – 1st Place

Tristan Dubin – 3rd Place

D & Under Men’s Saber

Ted Nalesnik – 1st Place

Tristan Dubin – 2nd Place

We would also like to congratulate James Dolan, Bob Nilsen, & Ian Shultis for their participation in the qualifiers.

Y14 & Cadet Qualifiers were held in March at CDFS

Jacob Shultis – Y14 Men’s Epee – 1st Place

Russell Brearley – Y14 Men’s Foil – 1st Place

James Dolan –  Y14 Men’s Foil – 2nd Place

Jacob Shultis – Y14 Men’s Foil – 3rd Place

Jacob Shultis – Cadet Men’s Epee – 1st Place

Russell Brearley – Cadet Men’s Foil – 2nd Place

James Dolan – Cadet Men’s Foil – 3rd Place

Tristan Dubin – Cadet Men’s Saber – 2nd Place

This years Summer Nationals are being held in Atlanta, GA. We will be traveling down as a club to support all of our fencers who qualified. Stay tuned to the Blog and the Newsletter for more information over the coming weeks! While at Summer Nationals you’ll be able to follow all the action on twitter.com/PHXcenter

Weekly Results 3/29/2010

Results for March 21 – 28, 2010

3/21 – Prise de Fer Boys Super Youth Circuit (SYC)

Russell Brearley – Y14 Men’s Foil – 24th

Russell earned National Points at this event!

3/27 – Woodstock Open

Jenna Gorab (Marist) – Women’s Epee – 1st

Dominic Saccento (Marist) – Men’s Epee – 10th

Ben Pozar (Marist) – Men’s Epee – 13th

Sarah Black (Marist) – Women’s Saber – 1st

Ian Rumrill (Marist) –  Men’s Saber – 3rd

Shane Steinert (Marist) – Men’s Saber – 4th

Brianna Rosamilia (Marist) – Women’s Foil – 2nd

David Amrani (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 3rd

Dan Raven (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 4th

Dan McCarthy – Men’s Foil – 5th

Michael Schepis – Men’s Foil – 6th

Calvin Dinio – Men’s Foil – 7th

Jonathan Porras (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 8th

Bob Nilsen – Men’s Foil – 9th

Sam English (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 12th

John Matcovich (Marist) – Men’s Foil – 13th

Y14 and U16 Qualifier Results

The Phoenix Center’s fencers did very well this past weekend qualifying all of our fencers for Y14 and U16 events at the 2010 Summer National Championships. The qualifiers were held up in Schenectady at Capital District Fencing School. Participants from our club included Russell Brearley, James Dolan, Jacob Shultis, and Tristan Dubin.

Jacob Shultis qualified for Y14 Men’s Epee and Foil. Jake also qualified for U16 Men’s Epee.

James Dolan and Russell Brearley both qualified for Y14 and U16 Men’s Foil.

Tristan Dubin qualified for U16 Men’s Saber.

We are very proud of our fencers and encourage them to train hard as Summer Nationals approaches. The competition will be tough there, but if we keep working smart and keep working hard we will do well.

The Div 2, Div 3, and Team Qualifiers will take place on April 18, 2010. Fencers must be 13 or older to participate in the Div 2/3/Team qualifier. Div 3 fencers must be rated D or lower at the time of the qualifier, Div 2 fencers must be rated C or lower at the time of the qualifier, and the Team Qualifier is for all teams from the same club who wish to fence at Summer Nationals.