Tech Host Yellow Jacket Open

Tech Host Third Annual Yellow Jacket Open Tournament

The Third Annul Yellow Jacket Open, held in the Georgia Tech Student Center Ballroom, was a huge success! Despite having over 300 tournament entries, the competition all ran very smoothly thanks to the time and effort contributed by all our volunteers. Special thanks to Courtney Price and Jeff Lumish for spending countless hours organizing the event.

Also, congratulations to the following fencers who did exceptionally well (within the top third). For complete tournament results, visit AskFred.

Mixed Epee - 69 Competitors
Eric Lange - 13th

C & Under Epee - 66 Competitors
Thurston Sandberg - 12th
Daniel Bodamer - 17th

Mixed Sabre - 54 Competitors
Christopher Denecke - 6th
Kevin Lyn - 18th

D & Under Sabre - 50 Competitors
Emily Robey-Phillips - 5th Earned E12
Joshua Mittelman - 7th Earned E12
Zhefan Ye - 11th
Jeffrey Lumish - 12th
Aaron DePiano - 14th
Stefano Fenu - 16th

Mixed Foil - 37 Competitors
Parth Deshmukh - 6th
Daniel Miller - 13th

D & Under Foil - 52 Competitors
Ruiqi Zhang - 7th Earned E12
Daniel Miller - 12th

Temple Open

This past weekend the Yellow Jacket Fencing Club competed against around six hundred athletes from over thirty schools at the Temple Open tournament at Temple University. Each weapon category had around a hundred competitors. Congrats to the following fencers who placed exceedingly well:

Women's Sabre: Courtney Price 11th
Men's Sabre: Eric Lange 33rd
Men's Foil: Daniel Miller 39th, Cavanaugh Welch 42nd

Nathan, Haley, Dylan and many of the experienced fencers made the top 80% cut to proceed to the direct elimination round. Bean, Lauren, and Jennifer placed 4th, 5th, and 9th respectively in the consolation round.

The full tournament results can be found at the following links:
Women's Results: http://www.owlsports.com/documents/2011/11/7/Scan001_1_6.PDF?path=wfence&tab=2011templeopenresults

Men's Results: http://www.owlsports.com/documents/2011/11/7/Scan001_7_13.PDF?path=wfence&tab=2011templeopenresults

Fencers, great job at the AFC tournament this week! In case you missed the event, it was a good experience, and lot of fun! As a team, we did very well. Congrats to the following fencers who placed in the top 3 of their respective tournaments:

Parth Deshmukh: 1st Place Open Foil, 2nd Place Open Saber
Eric Lange: 1st Place Open Saber, 3rd Place Open Epee
Daniel Miller: 1st place D & Under Foil
Courtney Price: 3rd Place Open Saber
Zhefan Ye: 3rd Place D & Under Foil

Catching up and the Cookout!

So... There's a slight chance that it's been a while, so.... TIME TO CATCH UP!

Dues have been paid, and that leaves us with 60ish dues paying members which is super fantastic. This is the largest number of fencers the club has ever had (or at least that anyone can remember), and Eric is pretty sure that this makes us the biggest fencing club in the southeast. I think that is pretty darn cool.

We've put in an order of stuff. Lots of stuff. We'll be getting new stuff and stuff to make the old stuff work like new, and that is definitely something to get excited about!

One of our sneaky methods of getting people to love fencing and stick around is to give them food, because who doesn't like free food! So about that cookout...

It was lots of fun! Delicious food thanks to GrillMasters Bryan and Lukas. DJ Arren provided some awesome tunes, folks were playing four square, Frisbee, and people may or may not have been playing with matches and we may or may not have tried to light Silly Putty on fire... >.> <.<

Social Ideas!!

We are in the process of forming our committees, and emails will go out about those very very soon!
However, everyone gets to be a part of social in a small way, so if you have any ideas at any time ever, fill out this form here: Social ideas form!

Third Week of School!

We've just finished our second week of official fencing practice, and I hope everyone has been having a blast!

We are having movie night, TONIGHT! At 7 pm in the Ford ES&T Building! Call me for directions if you need them, I'll be sending out an e-mail about that shortly. Everyone should come we'll have a lot of fun, movies, games, pizza, and whatnot.

AHHHH TYPING REALLY FAST 'CAUSE I GOTTA BE READY FOR MOVIE NIGHTTTTTT!!!

So the first few practice have gone really well, and I have some great pictures that I took, and will post soon, and we are very excited to have our new advisor Dr. Monica Halka! She joined us for fencing last practice, and she, as well as everyone else, seemed to be having fun.

Don't forget! Next practice isn't until next Thursday because the CRC folks don't believe in staying open. Meanie-heads. Anyways. Gonna send out another e-mail about MOVIE NIGHT TONIGHT! And about my super nifty survey which you should fill out! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDRGV2lCNUl6SDRlSU9PWVVIOFgtaGc6MQ It'll help me plan out social events for the year and make sure they are whatever you think super awesome social events are!

FENCING TOMORROW!!!

Hey Everyone!

Our first practice is tomorrow! Tuesday, August 30th, from 8-10 pm on the 4th floor of the CRC (the farthest basketball courts)! Then everyone is going to fall in love with fencing/back in love with fencing, and we will see you again for our Thursday practice from 5-6 pm (the time was moved for this Thursday only because of something called football, I dunno what that's about. Crazy talk.) Future Thursdays will also be 8-10 pm, and finally Sunday practice is 4-6 pm! It's going to be super fun! The officers have some pretty neat stuff planned, including lots of games! From 'fencing is like sword-fighting, right?' to rated fencers, everyone is welcome and we have stuff planned for everyone! For the new folks, all you have to bring is a good attitude dressed in athletic clothing (including closed toe-d shoes), and we will take care of the rest! For the experienced folks, please bring your own gear if you have it, so you'll be set to go with the experienced group! See you all tomorrow at 8! =D


EYE-CATCHING SUMMARY:

-PRACTICE TOMORROW 8-10 pm, 4th floor CRC
-PRACTICE THIS THURSDAY 5-6 pm, SAME PLACE (Next Thursday will be 8-10 pm)
-PRACTICE SUNDAY 4-6 pm
-WEAR ATHLETIC CLOTHES