Congratulations to all the fencers who competed at National Under 17 Championships in Dunedin over Easter Weekend!

We had fencers on the podium on 5 out of 6 events

Boy's Foil:
1st - Bruce Ng
3rd= Nicholas Miehlbradt

Girl's Foil:
2nd - Jess Gracie
3rd= Darya Kharitonova & Chantelle May

Boy's Sabre: 
3rd= Sam Tait

Girl's Sabre:
2nd - Laura Jacks

Girl's Epee:
1st - Jess Gracie

The weekend of the 18th & 19th April we have two events. 

On Saturday 18th we have Ongley Open - click HERE for info.

On Sunday 19th coaches Judit Fliszar, Anya Kamynina, and Kyle Macdonald are running a training camp at Mount Albert Grammar - click HERE for info. 

Fencing North Committee Meeting

Wednesday 1^st April 2015, 7.30pm

Meadowbank Community Centre, Meadowbank

Present:

John Garelja (President)

Eric Buisman (Vice-President)

Linda Boyd (Treasurer)

Oliver Agnew (Secretary) - (Judit Fliszar's proxy)

Chris Lear

Gaylene Ongley

Jeremy Dyson

Laura Harvey - (Chris Lear's proxy)

Apologies:

Chris Lear

Judit Fliszar

Meeting starts 7.25pm:

Minutes from previous meeting:

Oliver Agnew moves that we accept the minutes, Laura Harvey seconds. All in favour.

Matters arising from previous meeting:

Event in Hamilton – Laura Harvey and Heather Claydon are talking to Chris Nokes to organise an event.

Payments:

Jeremy Dyson moves that we pay Eric Buisman $61.96 for prizes he bought for W Dawn. Laura Harvey seconds – all in favour.

Treasurer’s Report:

Linda moves that we accept the treasurer’s report, John Garelja seconds. All in favour.

Project Kaipara:

Eric Buisman moves that a scoping exercise be commenced to seek grants to achieve the objectives of Project Kaipara. Jeremy Dyson seconds. All in favour.

Competitions Report:

The tournament subcommittee will give a report at each meeting on competitions that were run between that meeting and the previous Fencing North meeting.

The report should include:

Number of entries
Income
Amount spent on prizes
Any entry vouchers used/given

Referee Compensation:

Referees who spend a day refereeing at a Secondary School or Age Group Champ event will be given a free entry voucher to any regional open competition. This will be managed by Laura Harvey.
 

Meeting closed at 8.40pm

We have some winners at National Under 15 Champs in Dunedin! Congratulations to Rhys Davies, Chantelle May, and Sally Zhang - all from North Harbour Fencing Club.

Rhys Davies is the National Boys Foil Champion

Congratulations also to Chantelle May - the National Girls Foil Champion, and runner up Sally Zhang 

Please arrive 15mins before your event starts to complete registration.

You need to be affiliated to compete at this event. This year's affiliation form can be found here: Affiliation Form 2015

Mixed Epee
Boy's Foil
Girl's Foil
Sabre to be held at a later date

Mixed Epee:

Round #1 - Pools

Round #2 - Pools

Round #3 - Direct Elimination

Boy's Foil:

Round #1 - Pools

Round #2 - Direct Elimination

Girl's Foil:

Round #1 - Pools

Round #2 - Direct Elimination

Congratulations to Stephanie Wyllie for being selected to compete in Women's Foil at World Fencing Champs 2015 - Moscow, Russia (Mid July)

This will be Steph's third year in a row at World Champs - the first time she attended as a spectator while training in Budapest (Hungary), and last year she competed in Kazan (Russia). We wish her luck for this year's event!

 **Sabre has been cancelled**

Please arrive 15mins before your event starts to complete registration.

We will be accepting affiliations for 2015 at this event, but affiliated members from 2014 are able to compete in events until the end of March. This year's affiliation form can be found here: Affiliation Form 2015

-- to qualify as Under 17 you need to have been 16 or younger on the 1st January 2015 --

This is a pretty important event for our fencers who are training to compete at National Under 15s and Cadets in a couple of weeks time. Details and the entry form are here: http://www.fencingnorth.com/competitions-and-results/competition-info-and-entry-forms/item/268-regional-under-17-fencing-championships-28th-march-2015

WIN a MASK

How ?

1. be female

2. enter epee at the Auckland schools series events in May/June

3. collect the most points over the 4 individual epee events

Jess Beer (our last NZ fencing Olympian)  has donated an FIE mask to the girl with the most points at this years Auckland school series epee events.  
If you have never fenced epee, why not try it.  You could win a mask !

If you don’t have an epee or body wire, you can borrow one on the day for free.  - Just ask one of the Mount Albert Grammar School fencers.

Try epee at the Auckland u17 event on March 28th.