Here's all the news fit to print about Royal Arts, including tournament results, information about our members, special classes, and more.
When known, we list people's USFA rating. Click here for information about ratings.
Royal Youth Games November 2007 Congratulation to the winners of all events! Our special greetings to our youngest girls fencers (both lefties :-) that fenced in a Y8 Foil event: Ella Hayden - 6y.o. and Lilly Grunewald - 8y.o.!
Results: Y8 Foil 1st place- Gabriel Conner (DFSC) 2nd place - Lilly Grunewald (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Ella Hayden (Royal Arts) Y10 Foil 1st place - Arthur Nemeth (LFC)- KY 2nd place - Abigail Kaye (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Frank Ditullio (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Alex Lee (DFSC) Y12 Foil 1st place - Aaron Hutchison (Royal Arts) 2nd place - Alex Gavrilov (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Arthur Nemeth (LFC) KY 3rd place - Ethan Fitz (Sirano place)N.OH Y14 Foil 1st place - Tyler Birch (DFSC) 2nd place - Taylor McIntyre (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Aaron Hutchison (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Alex Gavrilov (Royal Arts) For a complete list of results please visit: http://askfred.net/Results/results.php?tournament_id=4045
September 15,2007 Royal Arts Open/Youth Congratulation to Tyler Birch (DFSC) and Robert Hess (Royal Arts) winners of Foil Y14 and Y10 respectivly! Foil Y14 was held with a handicap where fencers Y10 were starting their bouts with 2 points in if they fenced against Y12 fencer and 4 points in if they fenced against Y14 fencer. This system allowed us to have Y14 event bigger and keep tention for the older fencers. Summer Fencing Camp - RAFA, New Albany, OH Aug.13-17 Results of the Tournament Day of August 17th: Men's Foil: 1st place - Kean Mack 2nd place - William Hunsucker 3rd place - Justin Herman Women's Foil: 1st place - Taylor McIntyre 2nd place - Qynn Cook 3rd place - Michaella Cipriani
Summer National Championship - Miami-Beach, Florida June 29-July 5, 2007 We are back from the Summer Nationals! Royal Arts Fencers perfomed their Best ever! There were 3000 fencers from all over the US competing in Miami - Beach, Florida. Each event had from 100 to 200 fencers. Three of our fencers finished in the top twenties in their events! All our Royal Arts National Competitors performed amazinly, demonstrating great willpower, strong personality, self-control and showed a solid national level competitive fencing skill. It was the first National Championship competition for most of our fencers. They faced fencers who have competed at the National level for several years and some of oponents were also fencing at the highest senior level at the Nationals! The competition demonstated the great talant and potential of our fencers! I would like to congratulate everyone, and I am very proud of our fencer's achievements! Also, I would like to thank coach Sergey and all parents for working and helping with our competitors during long and very intence 8 days in the Miami-Beach Convention Center! I am looking forward to our 2007-2008 fencing season. I anticipate many medals and personal achievements! Coach Julia Results of performance of our Summer Nationals Competitors: Qynn Cook (10y.o.) 29th place in Youth 10 women's foil - it was Qynn's first Natonal Championship and also her first competitive fencing season - Very powerfull start Qynn! Qynn also competed in Y12 women's foil and finished 52nd out of 100 fencers. Taylor McIntyre(12y.o.) 27th place in Y12 women's foil - Taylor's best performance at the National Championships! Taylor also competed in Y14women's foil and finished 51st out of 107 fencers.Your fencing was impressive Taylor! Michael Saari(10y.o.) 27th place in Y10 men's foil - it was Michael's first National Championship! Justin Herman(8y.o.) Y10 men's foil - 62nd place- it was Justin's first National Championship! Justin was the youngest fencer in the competition! You have many National Championships to look forward to, Justin! Frank Ditullio(9y.o.) Y10 men's foil - 98th place- it was Frank's first National Championship and also first competitive fencing season - Great start Frank! Aaron Hutchison(12y.o.)Y 12 men's foil - 93rd place- it was Aaron's first National Championship and also first competitive fencing season - Great start Aaron! Aaron also competed in Y14 men's foil event. Faith Masterson(13y.o.)Y14 women's foil - 73rd place- it was Faith's first National Championship! Faith also competed in Y14 women's epee event - it was second epee tournament in Faith's fencing career! Ad work to your talant and you win it all Faith! William Hunsucker (13y.o.)Y14 men's foil - 87th place. William won most of his bouts in two rounds and was one touche away from going higher. Let's work on that touche Will! Max Foley (13y.o.)Y12 men's epee - 83rd place. It was Max's first National Championship and the largest event he ever competed! Great start Max! Alex Gavrilov(12y.o.) men's epee - 91st place. It was Alex's first National Championship and the largest event he ever competed! You've tried it - now let's win it Alex!
Summer Nationals Warm-Up Tournament June 23, CJDS - New Albany This tournament was an amazing showcase of readyness our National Championsip participants! Justin, Frank, Qynn, Aaron, Taylor, Faith, Alex and Max used their last opportunity to fence in the best way! Results: Foil Y10 1st Place - Qynn Cook (10y.o.) 2nd Place - Justin Herman(8y.o.) 3rd place - Robert Hess (10y.o.) 3rd place - Robbie Foley (10y.o.)
Foil Y12 1st place - Aaron Hutchison (11y.o.) 2nd place - Taylor McIntyre (12 y.o) 3rd place - Qynn Cook (10y.o.) 3rd place - Alex Gavrilov (12y.o.) Foil U16 1st place - Taylor McIntyre (12 y.o.) 2nd place - Aaron Hutchison (11y.o.) 3rd place - Faith Masterson (14 y.o.)
Epee Y14 1st place - Faith Masterson (14y.o.) 2nd place - Alex Gavrilov (14 y.o.) 3rd place - Max Foley (13 y.o.)
Royal Arts Summer Fencing Camp June 11-15, CJDS - New Albany We had great camp where our fencers ages 7-16 had a very intence week of conditioning, fencing, sports games and a tournament! Tournament results: Foil Y10 1st place - Robert Hess 2nd place - Justin Herman 3rd place - Qynn Cook 3rd place - Emily Cipriani Foil U-16 1st place - Will Hunsucker 2nd place - Taylor McIntyre 3rd place - Christopher Steiner 3rd place - Alex Gavrilov Summer Nationals Qualifier - Dublin Royal Spring Youth/Open May 26, 2007 We had great participation of fencers from all of the Royal Arts programs as well as fencers from Cleveland, Dublin and Newark. We would like to thank our parents Margorie Kelley, Diane Masterson and Julie Hess who helped with organizing events, Our special thanks to Jannine Snow and John Wallace who generously donated their time to officiate our Tournament! Results: Y8 Foil 1st place - Justin Galant 2nd place - Justin Herman 3rd place - Maya Lillard 3rd place - Grant Cookerly 5th place - Ella Hayden
Y10 Foil 1st place - Justin Galant 2nd place - Justin Herman 3rd place - Qynn Cook 4 - Frank Dittulio 5 - Alex Lichen 6 - Emily Cipriani 7 - Robert Hess 8 - Jake Tackett 9 - Connor Testaguzza 10 - Mary Kate Kelley 11 - Daniel Testaguzza
Y 12 Foil 1st place - Aaron Hutchison 2nd place - Taylor McIntyre 3rd place - Nick Ewbank 3rd place - Heather Ewbank 5 - Ethan Fitz 6 - Kean Mack 7 - Qynn Cook 8 - Michaella Cipriani 9 - Adam Ungar 10 - Frank Ditullio 11 - Justin Herman 12 - Robert Hess 13 - Matthew Ma 14 - Aurora Smith
Y14 - Epee 1st place - Alex Gavrilov 2nd place - Max Foley 3rd place - Matthew Ma 4 - David Amata
Foil Open 1st place - Taylor McIntyre 2nd place - Tyler Birch 3rd place - Dave Gordon 3rd place - Aaron Hutchison 5 - Nick Ewbank 6 - Faith Masterson 7 - John Wallace 8 - Ian Hunsinger
Founder's Day Parade - New Albany May 19th, 2007 Thank you to all fencers and parents that marched at the Founders Day Parade to represent our Fencing Club! May 6, 2007 We are very proud to announce that after this event Royal Arts Fencing Academy has a total of 16 fencers qualified for the Summer Nationals. LIST OF QUALIFIED FENCERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:
Youth Tournament - Atlanta, Georgia April 7th, 2007 Aaron Hutchison came back with a Silver medal from Atlanta last Saturday! Congratulations Aaron!
Regional Youth Circuit - Detroit, Michigan March 17th Qynn Cook and Aaron Hutchison brought Bronze medals from Michigan youth circuit , where over 50 fencers from all Great Lakes states were competing last saturday. Royal Arts fencers: Qynn Cook, Aaron Hutchison and Frank Ditullio fenced. Frank Ditullio finished 5th in the Y10 foil - it was his first out-of-state tournament! Super Youth Circuit -Houston,Texas March 17th Taylor McIntyre brought a Bronze medal for the Y12 Women's foil event, finished 9th in the Y14 Women's foil event and earned a National Stand points at the Super Youth Circuit events - with fencers from all states represented . ARNOLD FENCING CLASSIC 2007 Arnold Fencing Classic 2007 was a great successfull event for the Royal Arts fencers! Royal Arts was represented by 18 fencers competed in different events of the Arnold Fencing Classic 2007(AFC -07). Many many thanks to all volunteers !!!!! Your tremendous help made this event the most smoothly ran and memorable tournament! CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR MEDALISTS AND PARTICIPANTS: Y10 Girls Foil: Qynn Cook - 1st place Mary Kate Kelley - 3rd place Y10 Boy's Foil: Michael Saari - 3rd place (5.Justin Galant) (8.Robbie Foley) (9. Justin Herman) Y10 Sabre: (6. Robbie Foley) Y12 Epee: (14.Max Foley) (20. Alex Gavrilov) Y12 Women's Foil: Taylor McIntyre - 1st place Qynn Cook - 3rd place (14. Alex Gavrilov) (15. Aaron Hutchison) (17. Michael Saari) (20. Kean Mack) (23. Robbie Foley) Y12 Sabre: Taylor McIntyre - 3rd place Y14 Epee: (15. Max Chick) (26. Max Foley) Y14 Women's Foil: Taylor McIntryre -1st place Faith Masterson - 3rd place Y14 Men's Foil: (5. William Hunsucker) (20. Aaron Hutchison) (25. Max Chick) (26. David Edgar) Tournament of Kings (Epee-A1) Sergey Danilov - 2nd place (22. Mac Fiske) Open Foil -Women: Faith Masterson - 3rd place Open Foil - Men: (11. William Hunsucker) (15. EJ Beckwith) For a complete list of results please visit: http://www.columbusfencing.org/results/07_arnold.html Winter Teams Challenge 2007 February 3rd, 2007 Foil Y-12: 1. Royal Winners (RAFA). Taylor McIntyre, Kean Mack, Qynn Cook 2. Lollipops (Pittsburgh). 3. Royal Knights (RAFA). 4. Royal Blades (RAFA). 5. Royal Foils (RAFA). 6. Royal Fencers (RAFA). 7. Combined Team. 8. Tigers (Pittsburgh) Epee Y-14: 1. HOF (Northen OHIO) 2. Tiger I (Pittsburgh). 3. Tiger II (Pittsburgh). 4. Royal Arts (RAFA). Foil Y-16: 1. Royal Arts (RAFA). Joe Kelley, Faith Masterson, EJ Beckwith 2. Royal Arts (RAFA). Foil OPEN: 1. OSU (Columbus). 2. Culver (Indiana). 3. Royal Arts II (RAFA) 4. Culver II (Indiana). 5. Royal Arts I (RAFA). 6. Royal Arts III (RAFA). 7. Culver (Indiana). Epee Open: 1. Royal Arts Sergey Danilov, Mac Fiske, Anthony Simmons 2. HOF (Northen OHIO). 3. Culver (Indiana). 3. Tigers (Pittsburgh).
CONGRATULATION TO TAYLOR McINTYRE!
December 17th, 2006 Taylor competed at the Regional Youth Circuit in Shaker Heights and won: Gold medal in Foil Youth-12 and silver medal in the Foil Youth- 14! She was one touch away from winning the gold in the Y14 division.
Nov.19th.Junior Olympic Qualifier
U-17 Women's foil: Faith Masterson - Silver medal U-17 Men's foil: William Hunsucker - Silver medal EJ Beckwith - Bronze medal Nov.18. Royal Arts Tournament Our special thanks to the Officials: John Wallace, Isabell Alvarez, EJ Beckwith, Dave Gordon, Jannine Snow and Pam Knapp-Kreul! We appreciate a lot all of your time and hard work!
Nov.18. Royal Arts Tournament Y-10 Foil: 1st place - Robbie Foley (Royal Arts) 2nd place - Justin Herman (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Qynn Cook (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Heather Ewbank (Newark AFC) 5 - Justin Galant (Royal Arts) 6 - Patrick Murtha (Royal Arts) 7 - Aurora Smith (Newark AFC) 8 - Frank Ditullio (Royal Arts) 9 - Robert Hess (Royal Arts) 10 - Mary Kate Kelley (Royal Arts) Y-14 Foil: 1st place - William Hunsucker (Royal Arts) 2nd place - Taylor McIntyre (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Tyler Birch (FAO) 3rd place - Robbie Starcher (Newark AFC) 5 - Ian Hunsinger (Newark AFC) 6 - Faith Masterson (Royal Arts) 7 - Nick Ewbank (Newark AFC) 8 - Alex Gavrilov (Royal Arts) Foil (Unranked): 1st place - Taylor McIntyre (Royal Arts) 2nd place - Gabe Markley (Newark AFC) 3rd place - EJ Beckwith (Royal Arts) 3rd place - Robbie Starcher (Newark AFC) 5 - Ian Hunsinger (Newark AFC) 6 - Dave Gordon (Royal Arts) 7 - Eric McChensey (Denison UFC) 8 - Shawn Ditty (Royal Arts) 9 - Danny Connine (Denison UFC) 10 - Joe Moore (Newark AFC) 11 - Max Chick (Royal Arts) 12 - Cynthia Shilliq (Royal Arts) Epee Y-14: 1st place - Eric Kreul (Hooked on Fencing FC) 2nd place - Alex Gavrilov (Royal Arts) 3rd place - David Amata (Royal Arts) 4 - Max Foley (Royal Arts)
Sept.9,2006 Royal Arts Open/Youth Foil Y12 - 1-Taylor McIntyre (Royal Arts) 2 - Faith Masterson (Royal Arts) 3 - Heather Newbank (Newark AFA) 3 - Alex Gavrilov (Royal Arts) 5 - Claire Ilersich (Cyrano) 6 - Nick Ewbank (Newark AFA) 7 - Kean Mack (Royal Arts)
Foil Y14 - 1 - William Hunsucker (Royal Arts) 2 - Taylor McIntyre (Royal Arts) 3 - Ian Hunsinger (Newark AFA) 3 - EJ Beckwith (Royal Arts) 5 - Robbie Starcher (Newark AFA) 6 - Nick Ewbank (Newark AFA) Epee Y14 - 1 - Eric Kreul (HOF) 2 - Rebecca Rutan (HOF) 3 - Alex Gavrilov (Royal Arts) 4 - David Amata (Royal Arts) 5 - Max Foley (Royal Arts) Foil Open - 1 - William Hunsucker (Royal Arts) 2 - Ian Hunsinger (Newark AFA) 3 - Robbie Starcher (Newark AFA) 3 - Taylor McIntyre (Royal Arts) 5 - Joe Moore (Newark AFA) 6 - Gabriel Markley (Newark AFA)
May27th 2006 Royal Spring Novice/Youth Congratulations to all champions and medalists!
March 5-6,2006
This one was the best of all! Congratulations to the Royal Arts Fencing Academy for hosting this great event! Total of 20 fencers from our club competed at the Arnold Fencing Classic 2006! Our biggest thanks and sincere appreciation to all parents and friends of the Royal Arts Fencing Academy who helped me tremendously during this event! Our special thanks to: Diane Masterson, Margorie Kelley, Eric Beckwith, Noreen Schoch, Teresa McIntyre, Patrick Hayden, John Wallace, Dave Gordon, Kenneth and Cinthya Schilliq, Ross Richey & a Team, Olga Simonova, Victoria Long, Katya Goryunova, Franchesca Minelly, Ken Vlah, Kathy Sekulovski and Marisela Marque! Congratulations to Taylor McIntyre who took bronze medal in the Y12 - Girls foil event! Congratulations to Faith Masterson who was selected in the top eight fencers that was nominated for the International Rotary Fencing Scholarship! Faith also finished 4th in the Y12- Girls foil event! For the list of final results and pictures from the Arnold Fencing Classic 2006 please visit www.arnoldfencingclassic.com If you have made any pictures at this event and willing to share them please email them to : julia@royalarts.org
January 21, 2006 Winter Challenge Team Tournament Winter Challenge Team Tournament was a very successful event! We had 20 teams -from Pittsburg, Dayton, Cleveland, North of Ohio and from all clubs of Central Ohio - competed in all three weapons and in two age categories. This great youth event was announced and shown on the 10TV News Channel! Official Mascot Leo of the Royal Arts Fenicng Academy was present at this event! Results: Foil Teams Y12: 1st place - Fencing Alliance of Ohio-1 Team: Matthew Brew, Ray McVeety, Meghan Moore 2nd place - Royal Arts Fencing Academy - 1 Team: William Hunsucker, Faith Masterson, Justin Herman, Mario Bosca 3rd place - Royal Taylors Team: Taylor McIntyre, Evan Taylor, Megan Taylor, Kendall Taylor & Tiger Fencing Club Team: Josh Bowman, Thomas Holmes, Dylan Poljak, Shane McGee Foil Teams 17y.o. & under: 1st place - Fencing Alliance of Ohio Team: Isabella Bonello, Eugenio Bonello, Tomas Lepley. 2nd place - Royal Arts Fencing Academy - 1 Team: Joe Kelley, Christopher Steiner, William Hunsucker 3rd place - Dayton Fencing Academy Team: Zoe Hesp, Kelly Hovinga, Julie Wood Epee Teams Y12: 1st place - Tiger Fenicng Club (Pittsburg) Team: Josh Bowman, Thomas Holmes, Dylan Poljak, Shane McGee 2nd place - Royal Arts Fencing Academy Team: David Amata, Alex Gavrilov, Max Foley Epee Teams 17 & under: 1st place - Fencing Alliance of Ohio Team: Gabe Webb, Adam Nungester, Jonatathan Hoerle 2nd place - Hooked on Fencing (North Royalton, OH) Team: Jane Pozydaev, Cory Steffen, Eric Kreul 3rd place - Hooked on Fencing (North Royalton, OH) Team: Liam Butterfield, Nick Arlington, Devon Broderick Sabre Teams 17 & under: 1st place - Columbus Fencers Club Team: Joe Streb, Sterling Streb 2nd place - Fencing Alliance of Ohio Team: Vato Tsikurishvili, Guram Abashidze, Robbie Foley 3rd place - Fencing Alliance of Ohio Team: Lucas Miller, Justin McKibben, Gillian Moore
Congratulations to all teams with a successful performance!
Click here for more news about Royal Arts Fencing Academy.
December 3rd - Junior Olympic Qualifier Royal Arts Fencing Academy was represented by Mac Fiske - epee, Joe Kelley - foil, Patrick McGregor - foil and Christopher Steiner - foil All four men showed the best sides of their highly competitive athletic personalities and an incredible fencing skill! Congratulation to Christopher Steiner who Won JO Qualifier
in Men's foil U-17 and under! Joe Kelley fenced amazing at this tournament. He won most of bouts in pools and crashed his opponent 15:1 in his first DE. Joe and Christopher have met each other too soon in DEs. Both were the strongest fencers on the floor that day. Joe lost his DE bout when time ran out at the score 12:14. Mac Fiske was the youngest fencer at his tournament and yet, he showed an outstanding fencing! He won 2 bouts in pools and lost DE bout to the top seeded fencer. Mac had a great experience to fence with very strong opponents and saw at what level he will need to be fencing by next JO qualifier! It was the very first competition for Patrick McGregor! His fencing career is only few weeks old. Patrick openned his fencing day by winning his first bout 5:1! He came very close in his DE but lost it by missing last two touches. It was a pretty strong start of a New fencing season for Patrick! December 4th. Regional Youth Cirquit. Royal Arts Fencing Academy was represented by Faith Masterson, Taylor McIntyre, Max and Robbie Foley at this youth tournament. Faith, Taylor and Robbie has qualified to compete at the Summer Nationals. Royal Arts fencers brought three medals from this Regional Youth event! Y-10 Men's Foil Faith Masterson - Bronze medal Good work Royal Arts fencers! October 22, 2005 - Youth Games Last Saturday, October 22nd Royal Arts Fencing Academy hosted a very successful tournament where fencers competed in all Youth age categories in foil and epee. We had some fencers even came all the way from Illinois state and North of Ohio. There were hundreds of viewers watching our youth fencing at the Easton Town Center! Our participant's ages were from 6 years old to 16 years old. We also had an amaizing staff of officials,coaches and volunteers at this tournament! Our special thanks to our officials: Patricia Szelle, Cindy Bent, Gianvi Figari (officiated all final bouts at the Easton mall!), Danny Barua, John Wallace, Scott Tullener;to an amazing coaches Elasayed Emara from Peoria FA and Walt Dragonetti from Hooked on fencing club and a volunteer-parent Diane Masterson for their great help at running this tournament! It was our honor to host event that was greatly attended by fencers from Peoria FA (Illinois), Hooked of Fencing Club (North Royalton, OH),FAO (Columbus, Ohio), Rogue (Hudson, OH) and many of our Royal Arts Fencers! We held 8 events, where in Foil - age category 7y.o. and younger all medals went to our Royal Arts youngest fencers: Justin Herman - 1st place RAFA Robbie Foley -2nd place RAFA Kendall Taylor & Jake Mitchell - 3rd place RAFA Foil - Youth 10y.o. and younger all medals are in the Royal Arts: Evan Taylor - 1st place RAFA Robbie Foley - 2nd place, RAFA Bailey Fitzgerald & Justin Herman - 3rd place RAFA Foil - Youth 12 and younger William Hundsucker - 1st place, RAFA Taylor McIntyre - 2nd place, RAFA Ian J. Broderick - 3rd place Rogue, Hudson, OH Tom Lepley - 3rd place FAO, Columbus,OH Foil - Youth 14 and younger Ian J. Broderick - 1srt Rogue, Hudson, OH William Hunsucker - 2bd place, RAFA Taylor McIntyre & Faith Masterson -2nd place, RAFA Foil - Cadets (17y.o. and younger) Joseph Kelley - 1st place, RAFA Taylor McIntryre - 2nd place, RAFA Christopher Steiner and Faith Masterson - 3rd place, RAFA Epee - Youth 10 and younger Joseph Ironside - 1st place, Peoria FA Kaleb Nieman - 2nd place, Peoria FA Epee Youth 12 and younger Eric Kreul - 1st place, Hooked on Fencing Club Alex Gavrilov - 2nd place, RAFA Joseph Ironside - 3rd place, Peoria FA Kaleb Nieman - 3rd place, Peoria FA Epee - Youth 14 and younger Liam Butterfield - 1st place, Hooked on Fencing Club Nick Arlington - 2nd place, Hooked on Fencing Club Mac Fiske - 3rd place, RAFA Devon Broderick - 3rd place, Hooked on Fencing Club
September 10, 2005 - Royal Arts Open/Youth tournament Royal Arts held a Tournament where all of your generous donations and income from event were donated to the hurricane Katrina victims fund. We would like to Thank all fencers who participated in this tournament. Our special Thanks to those who greatfully donated their services and helped in organizing and running this event: Paul & Toma Hoyt, Danny Barua, Ross Richey, Katya Goryunova from RAFA and Terry Amrine, Sam Lillard from DSFC Here is a list and pictures of medalists and winners from all five events that were held at this tournament:
Youth -10 FOIL: Gold - Josh Bowman -Tiger Club,PA Silver- Michael Saari - Royal Arts FA, OH Bronze - Robbie Foley & Evan Taylor - Royal Arts,OH
Youth -12 FOIL: Gold - Taylor McIntyre - Royal Arts,OH Silver- Faith Masterson - Royal Arts, OH Bronze- Michael Saari & William Hunsucker - Royal Arts, OH
Youth -14 FOIL: Gold - William Hunsucker - Royal Arts, OH Silver- Josh Bowman - Tiger Club, PA Bronze- E.J. Beckwith & Taylor McIntyre - Royal Arts,OH
Youth -14 EPEE: Gold - Liam Batterfield - Hooked on Fencing Club,OH Silver - Mac Fiske - Royal Arts, OH Bronze - Josh Bowman - Tiger Club,PA & Alex Gavrilov - Royal Arts, OH
Open/Mixed FOIL: Gold - Julia Richey - Royal Arts, OH Silver - Ingrid Biedermen - DSFC, OH Bronze- Sam Lillard - DSFC,OH & Paul Hoyt - Royal Arts, OH
August 8-12, 2005 - RAFA Summer Fencing Camp This RAFA Fencing Camp of Summer 2005 - has been a great sport experience for our youth fencers! Summer Fencing Camp was held in two sessions - one in June and one session in August. Each session included a lot of fencing practice, private lessons, different fencing drills, fitness conditioning sessions, fencing video analysis, many games and fun activities! Competitions for all youth categories were held in the end of each camp session. (Please come back on August 20th to see more pictures and complete info) Here is our champions of August Camp (more pictures coming soon): Christopher Steiner Youth-14, William Hunsucker Youth-12, Robbie Foley Youth-8 and Justin Herman Youth-10!
May 28 - Royal Arts Spring Open/Youth 2005 Fencing Season of 2004 - 2005 got closed with this event today. It was remarkable performance of our youth fencers! Taylor McIntyre won Gold Trophies in both Y-10 and Y12 categories and she also took bronze medal in Y-14 Foil Event! Taylor represented our club in the most youth events of this fencing year - and she brought medals from every one of them, including AFC 2005! For the outstanding fencing and dedication to the sport Taylor McIntyre 've got nominated "Royal Fencer 2005" title. She recieved a special award at the Ceremony of Awards that was held in August 13th at the Gym of the Columbus Jewish Day School (CJDS)
Royal Arts welcomes Max Smith, Gordon Hewes and Spencer Klein - who had their first competition today! Royal Arts held two fencing camps this year: First Camp was held on June 13-17 and second Camp - on August 8-12 in the CJDS |
Christopher
will be representing the Royal Arts Fencing Academy and a Columbus
Division at the Junior Olympics that will be held on February 17-19
in Acford, CT. Good Luck at JOs to Christopher!
