Season schedules due August 13
Metro Division member clubs are reminded that their season schedules were due Saturday 8/13. Additions to the schedule must now work around already sanctioned events; if you haven't already received the voluminous e-mail with details of how scheduling works and what you need to submit in order to have your competitions sanctioned, please e-mail .
2011 Zonal Championships - July 4-9
Congratulations to Team USA, who swept gold at the PanAm Zonal Championships this year. And we hasten to add, almost half of the national team is comprised of Metro fencers! Read more at USFencing.org >
2011 Summer Nationals - July 1-10
Congratulations to all the Metro Division fencers who fenced at Summer Nationals in Reno, Nevada this July, with over 20 medallists from NYC! Read more at USFencing.org >
Read more about the event at USFencing.org >
 On April 30, 2011 George Masin was inducted into the New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame. The event was attended by more than 500 NYAC members to honor George and his many accomplishments. Notably, George is one of very few fencers to be be honored by the NYAC. Congratulations, George!
2011-2012 slate
The following board has been nominated for the 2011-2012 season:
Chair: Jonathan Bartlett
Vice Chair: Rachel Fedde
Secretary: Julia Kisla Gallego
Treasurer: Ellen Heasley
The National Congress has been discontinued by the USFA, so the Division no longer elects Congress representatives. As always, any current member is welcome to attend a division meeting or share their input by e-mailing any of the board members. Anyone wishing to contest the Nominating Committee's slate by running for one of the positions should submit a petition by email in the required format to . Petitions must be received by July 1st, 2011.
May 24, 2011
Motion passed to increase club sanctioning fee for competitions to $120.
Summer Nationals Qualifiers were held Sunday, April 3, 2011
Results:
Congratulations, qualifiers!
Junior Olympics Qualifiers
Congratulations, qualifiers!
- Avery, Cordelia U20 WS
- Barry, Allison U20 WS
- Alagappan, Visala U17 WF
- Basile, Eric U17 ME
- Briffault, Olivia U20/U17 WE
- Budofsky, Kaila U17 WF
- Cai, Jason U17 MS
- Chin, Edward U20 MS
- Clark, Charles U20 ME
- Edwards, Jackson U17 MS
- Fevry, Julian U17 MF
- Graziano, Nicolas U20/U17 MF
- Hall, Jessica U20/U17 WE
- Hurwitz, Daniel U20 ME
- Ibrahim, Safaa U20/U17 WE
- Ishizuka, Jin U20/U17 MF
- Jarocki, Adrienne U20 WS
- Loft, Benjamin U20 MS
- Mandel, Adam U20 MS
- Merchant, Julian U20/U17 MS
- Morelli, Annie U17 WE
- Morgan, Kibriyaa U20/U17 WF
- Omar, Josef U17 ME
- Pak, Sarah Suhyun U20/U17 WF
- Radev, Edward U17 MS
- Ranaboldo, Annalisa U20/U17 WE
- Revich, Mitchel U17 ME
- Ridge, Martin U20/U17 ME
- Sands, Charlotte U20/U17 WF
- Sands, James U17 MF
- Sorkin, Venedikt U20 ME (auto)
- Tafti, Ariana U17 WE
- Tartakovsky, Gabrielle U17 WS
- Turin, Anastasia U17 WS
- Uhry, Arabella U20 WS
- Upbin, Willie U17 MF
- Vastola, Christian U20 MF
- Wan, Justin U20 ME (auto)
- Whang, Jessica U17 WS
- Young, Lily U17 WE
- Zambrano, Jessenia Marie U17 WF
This information is provided solely as a courtesy to our members; in the case of any discrepancy this listing does not form basis for appeal. If you qualified for juniors and meet the age requirements, you also qualify for cadets. If you have any questions, please refer to the organizer of your qualifier for clarification.
Full results:
Nov, 2010
On November 17 at Hammerstein Ballroom Tim Morehouse is producing the largest (non-Olympic) spectator fencing tournament in USA history to benefit Olympic hopefuls. There will be cocktails, food, special guests and performances as well as an interactive expo and much more! Tickets on-sale and info: www.fencingmastersnyc.com
Sept, 2010
George Masin has stepped down as the Division Chair - and while we're sad to see him go, he's definitely earned his retirement! George's distinguished career, both competitively and in promoting fencing locally and nationally, sets the gold standard. George fenced twice in the Olympics (1972 and '76) and was the Men's Epee champion at the 1971 national championships. George has been a member of the USFA Board of Directors since 1970, and among many other achievements, devised the currently used national points system and introduced Division II and III competition tiers. Read more >
The Metropolitan Division salutes Maria Cerra Tishman, a long-time member of the Division and a cornerstone of women's fencing in the United States. She was a member of the 1948 US Olympic Fencing Team where she finished 4th in the individual event. In our national championships, she won once (1945) and was bronze medalist four times in the individual and nine times gold medalist in the team event. Read more >
May, 2010
The following board has been nominated for the 2010-2011 season:
Executive Slate
Chair: Jonathan Bartlett
Vice Chair: Rachel Fedde
Secretary: Julia Kisla Gallego
Treasurer: Ellen Heasley
Board and Congressional Slate
Rolando Balboa (Brooklyn)
Boris Vaksman (FC)
Julia Gelman (Manhattan)
Larissa Gonzalez (NAFA)
Stephen Khinoy (SI)
Arnold Messing (N/A)
Mona Lu (EUF)
George Masin (NYAC)
Alternates
Jed Dupree (EUF)
Michael Aufrichtig (NYAC)
Susan Monardo (SI)
Jason Sheridan (Sheridan)
Anyone wishing to contest the Nominating Committee's slate by running for one of the positions should submit a petition by email in the required format to . Petitions must be received by August 20th, 2010.
As usual, the Metropolitan Division yielded some great results at Summer Nationals, held this year in Atlanta, GA, 7/4-13.
- 5 Gold medals
- 7 Silver medals
- 13 Bronze medals
- 57 total fencers in top 8s
- 9 team gold medals
- 6 team silver medals
- 4 team bronze medals
Congratulations to all the Metro area fencers who competed.
May, 2010
2010 World Cup in NYC
Check out world-class fencing in your own back yard! Events will be held at the Marriott New York at the Brooklyn Bridge [map], 333 Adams Street.
- Friday, 6/18 - Men's and Women's Saber Pools
- Saturday, 6/19 - Women's Foil Pools, Men's and Women's Saber DE's and Finals
- Sunday 6/20 - Women's Foil DE's and Finals
Visit USFencing.org for a detailed events schedule.
May, 2010
Use of "Championships" designation at local events
Some of our member clubs have started to use "Championship" in the titles of some of their local competitions and they're not allowed to do that. The Sectional Championships are a qualifying path to the Summer Nationals. If more than one competition appears on our schedule as a "championship", confusions will arise as to which competition is the qualifying competition. Since we are both a Division and a Section, we could theoretically hold a separate Divisional Championship. So they should be instructed that they must take "championship" out of the names of competitions that have not yet been held and not use that term in the future; "Championship" is reserved for the use of the USFA.
Events which continue to use the term "Championship" will not be sanctioned events (i.e. fencers will not be able to earn classifications from those events).
March, 2010
Please be advised of a motion undertaken by the Metropolitan Division Board at the March 2010 meeting:
Per the national office, the Division can't (and therefore will not) sanction events held outside the 5 Boroughs of NYC, regardless of whether the organizer is a Metro member club or not. Likewise, any tournament held in NYC must be sanctioned through the Metro division to be a USFA event, regardless of the organizers' home division.
As part of the 2016 Olympic bid, Metropolitan Division fencers Tim Morehouse and Daria Schneider demonstrated fencing on the White House lawn for President Obama. Check out Tim's blog for more on the event (including more photos and links to news coverage).
September 17th, 2009
Location: Fencers Club
In attendance: George Masin (Chairman), Jonathan Bartlett (Secretary), Rachel Fedde (Bout Committee / Vice Chair), Ellen Heasley (treasurer), Rolando Balboa (BkFC), Julia (Sheridan), Arnold Messing (N/A), Michael Aufrichtig (NYAC), Julia Gelman (MFC), Steve Khinoy (SIFC), Boris Vaksman (FC)
2009-2010 competition schedule has been resolved and approved. Everyone has paid the $100 sanctioning fee except for Empire United; to be invoiced.
Financial status is good. 2008-9 season paperwork to be completed by Ellen Heasley and submitted to the National Office. George Masin and Ellen will investigate getting account maintenance fees waived or changing banks.
The board discussed several ideas for promoting fencing in the city. Tim Morehouse is already doing substantial media outreach; Michael Aufrichtig will contact him to find out if there's anything the division might do to support his efforts.
The board discussed what we might do to support our Junior Olympics fencers. In the past, we have given an equipment gift certificate of $100 for the top qualifier, men's and women's, each weapon and age category.
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