Team USA - Fencing

[clemsonbeav 601]

En garde. Prêts. Allez.  

Edited March 3 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 601]

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 601]

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 601]

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 March 19 by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 601]

We did end up with a silver and bronze for the women.  

[clemsonbeav 601]

Another good weekend in Fencing.

 

Silver in Team Sabre for the Women

Gold in Individual Sabre for the Men (William Morrill) (and 4th in Team)

 

and Silver in Team Épée for the Women