Fencing North Annual General Meeting - 2016

Thursday 1st December 2016, 7.30pm

Meadowbank Community Centre

Fencing North's AGM for the year shall be held on the 1st December 2016 at 7.30pm in the Meadowbank Community Centre, 29 St Johns Rd.

The AGM is where we elect our Executive Officers and set affiliation fees for the following year. All Fencing North members are encouraged to attend this meeting and to exercise their rights to vote. If you cannot attend the meeting you can give your vote to another member to cast by proxy - if you want to do this you need to email Oliver Agnew (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

For 2017 we will be looking for additional help running Fencing North. This ranges from helping us put on events to keeping everything running smoothly behind the scenes. If there is something you want to help us with please let us know - contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Nominees for Executive Positions:

We are looking for nominations for the Executive Officer Positions in 2017. Nominations are open to any member of Fencing North, if you would like to nominate someone to a position please send your nomination to Oliver Agnew (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) before the 30th November. See below the agenda for the descriptions of the roles.

The current Executive Officers are:

• President: Eric Buisman
• Vice President: John Garelja
• Treasurer: Linda Boyd
• Secretary: Oliver Agnew 

Agenda:

1. Present / Apologies
2. Confirmation of minutes of the previous AGM
3. Matters arising from previous AGM
4. President's report
5. Vice-President's report
6. Treasurer's report
7. Secretary's report
8. Election of the Executive Officers
9. Setting of Affiliation Fees for 2017

Description of Executive Officer Roles:

President:

The President presides at all Fencing North meetings. The President also represent's Fencing North at the Fencing New Zealand Board. The President shall ensure that all proper records of Fencing North's business are kept by the Secretary and that proper financial records are kept by the Treasurer. In situations where voting at Fencing North meetings is tied, the President will have the casting vote.

Vice-President:

The Vice-President acts on behalf of the President in meetings where the President cannot be present.

Treasurer:

The Treasurer is responsible for the financial affairs of Fencing North.

At the Annual General Meeting the Treasurer is to present the Financial Report and Balance Sheet to the meeting and be prepared to answer any questions arising.

Secretary:

The Secretary shall keep a record of all Fencing North meetings. The Secretary shall also be responsible for proper keeping of all correspondence, and the records relating to the business and affairs of Fencing North.

Fencing North Committee Meeting

Thursday 1st September 2016, 7.30pm

Meadowbank Community Centre, Meadowbank

Kyle Macdonald, recently back from FIE coaching training in Budapest, will be in Hamilton to offer a training camp at Ruakura on Sunday 18th September. See flyer attached to this page.

This is an excellent opportunity for fencers to participate in a structured training environment at a high level. The invitation is open to all fencers in the Region.

Fencing South cordially invites you to the New Zealand Open & Veteran Fencing Championships, 22-24 October, More FM Arena, Edgar Centre Dunedin

Information Sheet: http://goo.gl/MyD41O 
Online Entry Form: http://goo.gl/iOvFh1 

Entries close 8pm Wednesday 19 October  
Please note the venue is the More FM Arena at the Edgar Centre, not Claymore Swords Club

At the end of the month Fencing Central are running Oceania and New Zealand Under 20 Fencing Championships as well as a joint training camp with top fencers from the Oceania region and a coach training course.

For more information go to the Fencing Central website: http://www.fencingcentral.org.nz/

If you're using a phone browser to view the results, use this link

Find the event photos on our facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/fencingnorth

Fencing North Committee Meeting

Thursday 4th August 2016, 7.30pm

Meadowbank Community Centre, Meadowbank

Present:
Eric Buisman
Oliver Agnew
Linda Boyd
Daniela Ravera
Jessica Gracie

Apologies:
Hamish Bulmer
Laura Harvey
John Garelja

Meeting starts 7.30pm:

Minutes from previous meeting:
Eric Buisman moves that we accept the minutes from the previous meeting, Jess Gracie seconds. All in favour.

Matters arising from previous meeting:
Oliver and Laura still to do retrospective on SS Individual

Treasurer’s Report:
Oliver Agnew moves that we accept the Treasurer’s report, Jess Gracie seconds. All in favour.

Payments:
Outstanding expenses to be paid for hall hire (Massey), catering (Jess Gracie), and misc receipts (Oliver)

Event Organisation Team:
Fencing North will appoint organisers for each event who will put together their teams from a list of volunteers on a rostering basis. The organiser will be in charge of the event and first point of contact for any issues or queries and any decisions that need to be made. Rosters should be managed from google docs, to be set up by Oliver and Laura. Laura Harvey to organise North SS Teams and Daniela Ravera to organise National SS Champs.

North Secondary School Teams:
Starting this weekend with Foil poules – need to put out a call for referees. Will have eight poules.
We will do 2min bouts for foil teams to help the event run smoothly.
Oliver to organise trophies for the top schools in each event, and also organise petrol vouchers for the referees.

NZ Secondary School Champs:
Oliver to make entry form and then information to be distributed. Control marks are sorted and t-shirt has been designed.

Fencing NZ News:
Waiting on FeNZ to do a bunch of things including allocating equipment received from FIE and updating content on their website. Fencing Central are running training camps and coaching camps.

Other Business:
None

Meeting closed at 8.34pm

August has been a busy month so far with our Secondary School Teams competition and heading towards the end of the month we are focused on preparations for National Secondary School Champs.

Veteran Fencers make sure you scroll to the bottom to find a deal on entry to Commonwealth Veteran Champs.

Firstly - congratulations to the following fencers on their fantastic results:

Fencing North Secondary School Teams:

Foil (Advanced)

1st: Kristin Blue
2nd: Kristin Red
3rd=: AGS 1 & Dio A

Foil (Novice)

1st: Composite Team B
2nd: Composite Team A
3rd=: AGS 4 & Macleans B

Epee

1st: Kristin 1
2nd: EGGS Graciela
3rd=: MAGS B & AGS Crippled Foilists

Sabre

1st: SKC A
2nd: Macleans A
3rd=: AGS 1 & AGS 2

Upcoming Events:

National Secondary School Championships: 3rd - 4th Sept

NZ Secondary School Champs are in Auckland and entries close this Sunday, make sure to enter before the cut-off. Find out more and enter here: https://www.fencingnorth.com/events-rankings/competitions/396/new-zealand-secondary-school-championships-2016​

Don't miss the event t-shirt designed by Sara-Louise Williams from Epsom Girls Grammar, pre-order one here: https://www.fencingnorth.com/component/k2/400/competition-t-shirts-national-secondary-school-and-u20-championships


Commonwealth Veteran Fencing Championships 17th - 20th November

For all Kiwi fencers there is an EARLY BIRD DEAL that is running out on 31 August!
Pay on or before 31 Aug and your FIE licence (usually $70) is included in the entry fee; as of 1 Sept it goes on top!
Go to http://www.cvfc2016.co.nz/ and enter!

So far there has been heaps of international interest and we are expecting a lot of competition, especially from the Aussies. We're really excited that this event is in New Zealand and the team in Christchurch are doing a great job getting ready for it. To be eligible to compete you need to be 40+ or turning 40 before the end of the year (ie - 11:59pm on 31st December 2016!). Find out more on the tournament website: http://www.cvfc2016.co.nz/

Happy Fencing,
Fencing North
 

July has been a quiet month for us but August and September promise to be busy!

Firstly - good luck to everyone headed off to President's Cup in Christchurch this weekend! President's Cup is the second of four national open events in the fencing calendar.

Another event that lots of you will have heard about is the Commonwealth Veteran Fencing Championships - and entries are now open. So far there has been heaps of international interest and we are expecting a lot of competition, especially from the Aussies. We're really excited that this event is in New Zealand and the team in Christchurch are doing a great job getting ready for it. To be eligible to compete you need to be 40+ or turning 40 before the end of the year (ie - 11:59pm on 31st December 2016!). Find out more on the tournament website: http://www.cvfc2016.co.nz/

In local affairs our Secondary School Teams event is about to kick off. This runs over the first three weekends in August (6th, 13th, 20th) with Foil split across the first and third weekends and Epee + Sabre in the middle weekend. If your school doesn't have a fencing team you can enter to be part of a composite team. Check out the event page for details: https://www.fencingnorth.com/events-rankings/competitions/394/fencing-north-secondary-school-circuit-2016-teams. Entries close on the 1st August but we will accept late entries through till the 3rd August.

Coming up shortly after the Secondary School Teams are the National Secondary School Championships (3rd-4th September). This is one of the highlight tournaments of the year for us and we get a great set of fencers competing from all around NZ (for a refresher of last year's event - check this article from the Western Leader). At this point the entry form isn't published but all the event information is, check it out here: https://www.fencingnorth.com/events-rankings/competitions/396/new-zealand-secondary-school-championships-2016

We'd also like to congratulate the fencers who competed recently at the Australian U15 & U17 Fencing Championships! Lots of good results all around. Special mention to Lena Jacob on placing 3rd in the U15 Girls Foil! Also well done to those who placed in the team matches! (Nicholas Miehlbradt 3rd= U17 Boys Epee Teams, Oliver Zou & Alex McGuire-Barnes 3rd= U15 Boys Foil Teams, Lena Jacob & Chantelle May & Hannah Irwin 3rd= U15 Girls Foil Teams). 

A results correction to make - at the conclusion of the Individual Finals of the Secondary School Circuit we announced that Auckland Grammar School were the Top Boys School for 2016 edging out Kristin by one point. After recalculating this we found that we made a mistake and actually Kristin beat Auckland Grammar School by one point - it doesn't get much closer than this!  Congratulations to Kristin School on being the Top Boys School in the Individual Circuit. 

Happy Fencing,
Fencing North