Team USA - Fencing

[clemsonbeav 568]

En garde. Prêts. Allez.  

Edited March 3 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 568]

We've had success thus far this Fencing season.  Our weaknesses are M Épée and W Sabre.  But we've medaled in just about every other event (team and individual).

 

Some top dogs that have medaled thus far:

 

Colin Heathcock - M Sabre

Lee Kiefer - W Foil

Lauren Scruggs - W Foil

Alexander Massialas - M Foil

Hadley Husisian - W Épée

[clemsonbeav 568]

Regarding qualification...

 

We get 6 total places, and we can have 18 total (9 per gender). 

 

Teams are determined solely by ranking (1-4, plus highest from each continent, with Asia/Oceania being in the same zone), based on performance 1 April 2027-1 April 2028.  We qualified a team in each event except Men's Épée.  Venezuela took the Americas team quota in Paris.  We'll see how this go round goes.

 

If for some reason we don't field a team in an event, we can send one individual in the event, based on rankings + performance in the Americas zonal qualifiers in April 2028.

 

But, one thing I see with Fencing is that we get 6 total slots to use however we want in addition to whatever we earn.  Given that we sent 15 to Paris, I think that mean's we'll have a full team this time.  

Edited March 13 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 568]

Fencing in Lima this weekend.

 

Foil is strong for M and W.  We have 2 M ranked in the top 20 that we sent to Lima (Nick Itkin is 4, Gerek Meinhardt is 16).  We also have 3 W in top 20 (already mentioned Lee Kiefer, who is 1 and married to Gerek, and Lauren Scruggs, who is 13...Jaelyn Liu is 2).

 

Best of luck to our team!  

Edited 11 hours ago by clemsonbeav