Announcements

Great news!

1. Fencing practice will start this Friday. It will be between 4pm and 6pm on the 3rd floor basketball court of Helwell. See you there!

2. Some members of the fencing team, including our team president Taylor, will be at the Student Org fair tomorrow, August 27. Stop by to say hi and sign up if you're not on the team yet! If you're already part of the team, come keep Taylor company and recruit some new members!

3. Our most likely first tournament of the year, Chaos, is going to be at University of Maryland College Park on October 20th. Chaos is a tournament geared towards beginner fencers; however, it is also on Parents Weekend. Taylor encourages everyone to talk to your parents now (if they're coming) to try to work out your schedule to see if you can or cannot go to Chaos so that Taylor can know as soon as possible. The tournament is not mandatory or a "team" competition, so you will be competing individually if you choose to go. Taylor and hopefully the blade captains will be there.

Good luck on the first week of classes!

Practice Schedule Finalized

Great news! Fencing practices have been finalized, and we will be fencing on the 3rd floor of the Health and Wellness Center on the basketball court! Here are the times:

Sundays 9pm - 11pm
Mondays 7pm - 9pm
Fridays 4pm - 6pm

Please try to come to practice as much as possible!

Colonial Inauguration Student Org Fairs

Hello all!

The GW Fencing Club will have a table at each of the CI Student Org Fairs, so if you're a new freshman please come say hello! We'll have some weapons for everyone to look at, and some people at the table to answer your questions.

Here's the dates and times of the org fairs:

CI 1: Saturday, June 15, 9:30 - 11:30 am
CI 2: Friday, June 21, 9:30 - 11:30 am
CI 3: Thursday, June 27, 9:30 - 11:30 am
CI 4: Tuesday, July 2, 9:30 - 11:30 am

We look forward to seeing you there!

Nationals Information

(From our president, Joel Klein)

Below is information pertaining to nationals. Please read through and make sure you understand the structure and flow of the event. Also feel free to ask any questions.

01 Masks are the only thing to be checked
02 There are no time outs at any phase of the event
03 The Summit has a large parking lot - IT IS FREE FOR US 
04 ABSOLUTE is the only vendor - they will be on site
05 The formula for promotion to the individual is - 8A, 5B, 3C

We will take 2 A from each pool + 2 from the field
We will take 1 B from each pool + 2 from the field
We will take 1 C from each pool + 0 from the field

There is no fence off for 3rd place.

06 Individual format is 2 semi pools of 8 to a final of 4 DE; 1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3 based on the
pool results


ON FRIDAY THE VENUE WILL OPEN FOR TEAMS TO CHECK IN AND GETS MASKS CHECKED BEGINNING AT 4PM UNTIL 9PM.


SAT, APRIL 6
0645 Doors Open - MEN'S OPENS AND MASK CHECK OPEN
0720 Membership Meeting
0730 MEN'S CHECK IN CLOSES
0800 Referee Meeting
0820 National Anthem
0830 MEN'S POOLS BEGIN
0900 WOMEN'S CHECK IN AND MASK CHECK OPENS
1000 WOMEN'S CHECK IN CLOSES
0100 Men's Pools End
0200 WOMEN'S POOLS BEGIN - WE WILL BEGIN EARLIER IF POSSIBLE
0700 Women's Pools End
0830 Women's Individuals End (or earlier)

NOTE: 20 minutes after the conclusion of a squad event, that event will begin individuals. The individual portion of the tournament will be run in it's entirety. The format will be -

2 Pools, Double stripped of 8 fencers; Top 4 move to a medal round DE, 15 touch.

SUN, APRIL 7
0700 Doors Open
0715 Second Session, Membership Meeting IF NEEDED - will be decided on SAT
0820 National Anthem
0830 Men's Squad DE begins
0130 Men's, Squad DE ends; Women's Squad DE begins
0630 Women's Squad DE ends
0700 Awards

All SUN times are subject to finishing earlier. I don't anticipate later by any means.

Congrats to our Women's Epee Squad!

On March 24, the GW Fencing Club's women's epee squad won 4th place at the SAC Championships at William and Mary! Congrats you guys, you definitely earned it!

Women's epee squad (from left to right): Kim Preminger, Bridget Hughes, and Team Captain Claire Wilhelm

The Fencing Coach's guide to 'Being a Good Teammate'

Check this article about being a good teammate that saber captain Jim Crudele found!

Bake Sale Postponed

To everyone who planned to table or bake for the bake sale tonight (Friday), it will be postponed until tomorrow night (Saturday) at 8pm in Ivory. Apparently, there is already going to be a bake sale tonight from another org. If you've already baked something, please save it and bring it tomorrow. If you were going to table, please go tomorrow.

Thanks!

New Practice Times!

With the new semester comes new practice times! The time and locations are below, and you can also find them on the sidebar.

Sunday, 9:00pm - 11:15pm @ Health and Wellness Center, Gym 2

Monday (January 28, February 18-April 22), 7:00pm - 9:00pm @Smith Center, Room 303/304

Friday, 4:05pm - 6:00pm @ Health and Wellness Center, Gym 2