Halloween Open Updates

Congratulations to the following:

• Anthony Betts and Tim Kierzkowski earned their D rating in Senior Epee
• Parth Deshmukh placed 2nd in Senior Foil
• Matt Bernstein placed 3rd in C&Under Foil
• Jeff Lumish placed 1st in Senior Sabre
• Austin Hirsch placed 2nd in Senior Sabre
• Brandon Huggins placed 3rd in Senior Sabre

Get more info on the tournament results at AskFred: http://askfred.net/Results/results.php?tournament_id=23679

Throwback Thursday Team Photo

Team photo 2011 - or at least what Picasa claims it to be.

Team photo 2013 - look at how much we've grown!  Are you in the team photo?

3rd Annual Murder Mystery Party

Wow oh wow, it's that time of the year - the 3rd Annual Murder Mystery Party in the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club!  This year's theme coincides with Georgia Tech's homecoming theme Greek - Romans in "Terror in a Toga"!

Fencers acted as Romans enjoying the festivities as the gladiator games are about to commence - when suddenly grand champion gladiator Titus was found dead!  These characters had to figure out who killed whom while interacting to other characters and completing their objectives.  At the same time, many scandalous secrets were discovered...

In the end, the fencers had a great time solving the mystery.  Big thanks to social committee for making all this happen!  Will you be in next year's murder mystery party?

As you can see at the left-hand side, everyone wanted the baby.

Fencing Weekends!

Whew, these two weeks have been certainly fun and stressful!  On September 23rd, our newbie fencers arrived in UGA for the Georgia Meet 'n Greet to fence in a team-style tournament.  It's not so much the winning that counts, but the learning experience each fencer got.

On the weekend of September 28-29, six squads traveled all the way to the University of Florida for the annual Fall South Atlantic Conference, or Fall SAC for short.  It pretty much had the feel of the Georgia Meet 'n Greet except for more fencers from more schools, more opportunities to eat together, and closer bonding by being stuck together in cars/vans together for a 5-hour drive.

In short, everyone had a blast fencing and hanging out with teammates!

Next line of tournaments for this semester will be Halloween Open in GSU and Tiger Open in Clemson - both of which are USFA individual tournaments!

First Practice

Our first practice (Tuesday, August 20th) had a total of about 110 prospective members!  The members learned the very basics of fencing, got to meet some of our current members, and watched actual electric fencing bouts.

Free beginner lessons continue for three weeks.  If you've missed the first few practices, don't fret!  Come at any time and we'll get you to speed in fencing.

See you next practice!

Operation FASET Fencing Recruiting: Done!

A total of 189 freshmen have signed up for our newsletter in a span of 6 FASETs!  Thank you to all volunteers for handing out flyers and talking to the freshmen.  Super big thanks to all the freshmen considering joining us in the best sport in the world!

For all you fencing newbies: first practice is on Tuesday, August 20th.  See you there!

YJFC Circuit Awards 2012-2013

Congratulations to:

• Thurston Sandberg for 3rd place in Div II Epee & Div I Sabre
• Jeff Seiden for 2nd place in Unrated Epee
• Daniel Miller for 3rd place in Div I Foil
• Matt Bernstein for 1st place in Unrated Foil
• Adam “Batman” West for 1st place in Unrated Sabre