Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Ta-dah! Practice Times!
After mucho corresponding, polling, debating, and cupcake eating. It was decided that summer fencing practices will be held from 5-7 pm Monday and Friday at the CRC!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Catching Up
Tournament Updates!
While you were running around trying to study for tests and finals, the fencers were fencing and then trying to study for tests and finals. The result was a gain in awesome medals/trophies and an absence of time for writing up the awesomeness that occurred(, but let's face it, you wouldn't have had time to read it all anyway because you were oh-so-studiously studying for those tests and finals, right?)
The South Atlantic Conference!
The SAC was held at James Madison University March 26th and 27th. We all piled into a van on the 25th and made our way to Virginia! Getting 14 people and 14 people's weekend travel stuff and 14 people's fencing stuff into one van was quite a feat.
Saturday:
Men's Epee fielded their first team! Men's Saber took 6th, and Men's Foil took 5th with Eric Lange placing 6th individually.
Sunday:
The Women's Foil team (consisting of two rookies at their first tournament) placed 11th (which wasn't last!), and the Women's Saber Team kicked. butt. They came in 1st place as a team, with Xenia placing 6th, Emily placing 2nd, and Courtney placing 1st individually!
A few weeks later the fencers traveled to the CFCS and those adventures are to be continued!
While you were running around trying to study for tests and finals, the fencers were fencing and then trying to study for tests and finals. The result was a gain in awesome medals/trophies and an absence of time for writing up the awesomeness that occurred(, but let's face it, you wouldn't have had time to read it all anyway because you were oh-so-studiously studying for those tests and finals, right?)
The South Atlantic Conference!
The SAC was held at James Madison University March 26th and 27th. We all piled into a van on the 25th and made our way to Virginia! Getting 14 people and 14 people's weekend travel stuff and 14 people's fencing stuff into one van was quite a feat.
Saturday:
Men's Epee fielded their first team! Men's Saber took 6th, and Men's Foil took 5th with Eric Lange placing 6th individually.
Sunday:
The Women's Foil team (consisting of two rookies at their first tournament) placed 11th (which wasn't last!), and the Women's Saber Team kicked. butt. They came in 1st place as a team, with Xenia placing 6th, Emily placing 2nd, and Courtney placing 1st individually!
A few weeks later the fencers traveled to the CFCS and those adventures are to be continued!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Summer Plans!
It's summer!!!
And with summer comes awesome! Not only are you now done with those classes and gross finals, but now you have more time to check the fencing website for updates (which can happen because the updaters are done with their classes and finals as well!)
Forms:
If you are an experienced fencer and are interested in attending summer fencing practices check out this form: Summer Interest Form
If you're a newbie either to Tech or to fencing or otherwise interested in joining us in the fall check out this form: Fall Interest Form
Things to be thinking about:
Familiarization and Adaptation to the Surroundings and Environs of Tech:
Aka FASET is a really great way to recruit new fencers or fencers that are new to Georgia Tech. We're already planning on having a table there, now we just need people to stand around the table and look awesome so little freshman will gravitate toward you and be drawn into the world of fencing! I'm not sure when the FASET go-ers will be visiting the tables in the day, but as soon as I know you'll know! Until then though, you should mark these days on your calendar anyway, so you know when to be hanging out in Atlanta! If you already know you're going to be in town or on campus, then check out the FASET Signup Form!
Summer Fencing:
After confusion and chaos and mass panic (just kidding, we had a back-up plan 'cause we're on top of things like that) it was revealed that the CRC's 4th floor would not be undergoing renovations! So now that we won't be kicked out of the CRC, everyone who is on campus should be able to go to practice!
And with summer comes awesome! Not only are you now done with those classes and gross finals, but now you have more time to check the fencing website for updates (which can happen because the updaters are done with their classes and finals as well!)
Forms:
If you are an experienced fencer and are interested in attending summer fencing practices check out this form: Summer Interest Form
If you're a newbie either to Tech or to fencing or otherwise interested in joining us in the fall check out this form: Fall Interest Form
Things to be thinking about:
Familiarization and Adaptation to the Surroundings and Environs of Tech:
Aka FASET is a really great way to recruit new fencers or fencers that are new to Georgia Tech. We're already planning on having a table there, now we just need people to stand around the table and look awesome so little freshman will gravitate toward you and be drawn into the world of fencing! I'm not sure when the FASET go-ers will be visiting the tables in the day, but as soon as I know you'll know! Until then though, you should mark these days on your calendar anyway, so you know when to be hanging out in Atlanta! If you already know you're going to be in town or on campus, then check out the FASET Signup Form!
Fall Freshman FASET Dates:
FASET-1: Sunday, July 10
FASET-2: Sunday, July 17
FASET-3: Thursday, July 21
FASET-4: Monday, August 8
FASET-5: Sunday, August 14
FASET-6: Wednesday, August 17
FASET-1: Sunday, July 10
FASET-2: Sunday, July 17
FASET-3: Thursday, July 21
FASET-4: Monday, August 8
FASET-5: Sunday, August 14
FASET-6: Wednesday, August 17
Summer Fencing:
After confusion and chaos and mass panic (just kidding, we had a back-up plan 'cause we're on top of things like that) it was revealed that the CRC's 4th floor would not be undergoing renovations! So now that we won't be kicked out of the CRC, everyone who is on campus should be able to go to practice!
Friday, April 22, 2011
Summer Again!
With the end of the semester rapidly approaching (too quickly and not quickly enough!), the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club has begun planning its summer fencing festivities and held elections for new officers!
Your returning/new officers are as follows:
Team Captain: Courtney "Dues" Price
President: Jeff Lumish
Vice-President: Eric Lange
Treasurer: Daniel Miller
Secretaries: Kevin Lyn and Lauren Rhodes (Yes, the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club is so awesome it has to have two secretaries to record it all)
Stay tuned for future updates including plans for summer fencing, FASET, and fundraisers!
Your returning/new officers are as follows:
Team Captain: Courtney "Dues" Price
President: Jeff Lumish
Vice-President: Eric Lange
Treasurer: Daniel Miller
Secretaries: Kevin Lyn and Lauren Rhodes (Yes, the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club is so awesome it has to have two secretaries to record it all)
Stay tuned for future updates including plans for summer fencing, FASET, and fundraisers!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
UGA Tournament -- Quite a win!
This Saturday we caravanned up to Athens, GA, the nest of the evil ones themselves (hah). On arrival, we promptly trashed them in Saber, winning 4 of 4 matches. Foil, the main event for our novice men and women, showed a much greater range of success and failure, but in the end, we prevailed, handily defeating all but 3 matches out of 8. Our novices showed their acumen by defeating UGA novices with little effort, and I personally showed my fail by nearly losing to one, finishing the bout 5-3.
Jordan Herin rocked our entire team over and over. Ow. Whatajerk.
Eric defending our honor against Herin in the final foil match. We lost at an agonizing 45-42.Unfortunately, our epee team consists of two Epeeists, a potato, and an empty coke can... so we had to improvise. We managed to make two teams by using saberists, foilists, and a bit of can-do attitude. We handily won 3 out of 4 matches thanks to the beneficence of Herin in not joining in the melee.
The end of the tournament came, and we wandered off to a Mexican food place. Noms were had by all, as well as bonding and friendship. Our next meeting on the battlefield against our archrivals u[sic]ga will occur in November, at the (for serious) South Atlanta Conference, where we'll put our pride on the line to defeat them for reals.
Until then, we'll be putting up pictures and traveling about. So stay tunes for further adventures of the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club.
-President Sunshine
P.S. Come back to practice, Epeeists. Lukas is getting bored fencing the potato.
The end of the tournament came, and we wandered off to a Mexican food place. Noms were had by all, as well as bonding and friendship. Our next meeting on the battlefield against our archrivals u[sic]ga will occur in November, at the (for serious) South Atlanta Conference, where we'll put our pride on the line to defeat them for reals.
Until then, we'll be putting up pictures and traveling about. So stay tunes for further adventures of the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club.
-President Sunshine
P.S. Come back to practice, Epeeists. Lukas is getting bored fencing the potato.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
First Day
Thanks to everyone that showed up for our first few practices & cookout for making them as fun and successful as they were. We put a whole bunch of photos from our first practice, so be sure to check them out!
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