Alamo Fencing Academy
Houston, Texas
Super Youth Circuit 2012
12 fencers traveled to Houston this weekend for a national tournament and have returned with 4 medals!
Congratulations to Ingrid Mayer for WINNING THE GOLD MEDAL in Youth 10 Women's Epee! Breauna DeLon earns her first national medal, coming home with an 8th place medal in the same event. Nishta Boys, the youngest competitor in the tournament comes in short of the medal round, being in 12th place!
In youth 12 women's epee Tzarina von Fritsch misses being first by only one bout and brought home the silver medal! Breauna DeLon almost gets up on the podium twice, but misses the medal round and end up in 13th place. Ingrid Mayer was a brave fencer and fenced the age group up and earned 18th place. Nicole Eliseev cam in 20th but fought very hard. In their first tournament outside of San Antonio Isabella Friedrichs gets 24th and Caitlyn Clark gets 23rd, just keep working girls and the medals will come later! Tzarina von Fritsch rocks the older girls and fought hard to earn a 6th place medal in youth 14 women's epee.
Youth 10 Mens Epee Luke Koblinskie misses the medal round by just one place and finished in 9th place. He is one of the youngest fencers in this age group and still has lots of time to catch up! Isaac Alexander fisnishes directly behind Luke in 10th place, fencing hard and showing a great attitude. Julian Maldonado and Caleb Nilsson fought very hard in the youth 12 men's epee, it is one of the toughest age groups. They finished 17th and 23rd respectively. Youth 14 Mens Epee was a very tough competition, Julian Maldonado worked very hard to earn a spot in the top 32 and finishes 31st! Alejandro Jimenez traveled for the first time out of San Antonio region and finishes 47th.
Great Job to everyone! A great way to start 2012! Keep working hard and good luck in the future!
A Huge Success for Alamo Fencing Academy
The Badawi Challenge- A Super Youth Circuit was held in Plano, TX September 4 & 5.
Alamo Fencing Academy comes back with a total of 6 medals,
including 2 gold!
Tzarina von Fritsch keeps shining in the Y12 Women's Epee Division bringing home a gold medal! Also, competing an age group up, finishes an atounding 8th place in Y14 Women's Epee! Also a special congratulations to Tzarina for earning her new rating- E11!
Fernanda Arredondo, after only fencing for 6 months, finishes 3rd in Youth 12 Women's Epee and 25th in Y14 Women's Epee! Both days she lost to teammate Tzarina, but put up a great fight and got her well derved epee!
Ingrid Mayer continues Alamo Fencing Academy's tradtion by bringing home the gold medal in Y10 Women's Epee! Also finishes 11th in Y12, which is amazing since she was one of the youngest competitors in Y12!
Laura Muniz adds another medal to the count! Bringing home the 6th place Y12 Women's Epee medal! This is her 2nd National Medal after her great 1st place finish at the Arnold Open last March!
Luke Kolbinskie, a 7 year old fencing in Y10 Men's Epee, showed great courage and character and finished in 8th place! After a not so good start in pools, Luke got it together and shined in the elimination round!
Julian Maldonado gave the older boys a great challenge! Being a Y12 fencer, he fenced the Y14 Men's Epee division and made the top 32 finishing in 24th place! And did a great job in the Y12 Men's Epee division finishing 18th!
Nishta Boys was only 1 point away from getting into the medal round in Y10 Women's Epee! This was her first tournament, and she one was one of the yougest competitors! But that did not stop her from fencing her best and getting some really great wins!
CONGRATULATIONS to all Alamo Fencing Academy students! Your coaches, parents and teammates are very proud of you! The way this year started is how we would like for it to keep going! So let's keep fencing hard, training hard, bringing home medals and showing what Alamo Fencing Academy is all about!
Six Alamo Fencing Academy students travel to Reno, Nevada
June 29- July 8 for the 2011 Summer Nationals.
Tzarina von Fritsch opened the tournament missing the podium by only 1 touch in the Youth 12 Girls Epee Division, finishing 9th, and being one of the youngest fencers in Youth 14 she finished 59th. Julian Maldonado finished 83rd in Youth 12 Boys Epee and Caleb Nilsson finished 97th in the same division. Sean Nesloney fenced very tough in both age categories, and finished 50th in Youth 14 Boys Epee and 116th in the Cadet Mens Epee. Elizabeth Gilbert fenced great in pools in Junior Womens Epee, but ended up 86th. Oksana Samorodova does an outstanding job in her last tournament as an Alamo Fencing Academy student for the next 4 years. She finished 8th in the Junior Womens Epee division, her first time getting up on the National podium after her ankle injury! Congratulations to all the Alamo Fencing Academy fencers, and lets have a great new season starting after this break!
April 18-23
visit AFA for the 3rd time in the last 5 years to prepare for the
Junior Olympics of Mexico!
7 young fencers came to train and fence with our fencers
to improve their conditioning and fencing!
Good Luck and see you all again!
Congratulations to Alamo Fencing Academy's Young fencers at the 2011 North American Cup! Very great fencing, and good result for such a big tournament!
Special Congrats to Tzarina von Fritsch for coming home with the
7th place medal in the Y12 Girl's Epee!
Youngest Girl On The Podium! Great Job! Keep It Up!
bringing home medals from the
Houston Super Youth Circuit!
Tzarina von Fritsch did and outstanding job WINNING in the 12 year old girls division and being one of the youngest competitors, it is only her first year in the 12 year old division, and also for a great finish in the Y14 girls epee- 8th place!
Sean Nesloney brings back a hard-earned 5th place medal in the 14 year old boys!
Ingrid Mayer continues her medal gathering in the Y10 girls- bringing home the 3rd place, along with Estrella Hernandez getting her first National medal- 7th place!
Also a congratulations to Nicholas Rickhoff with a good job in his first ever National Tournament in the Y14 Boys Epee- 34th place.
Julian Maldonado misses the podium by just 2 touches, finishing 14th in the Y12 Boys Epee! Eddie Garcia finishes 9th in the Y10 Boys Epee, almost there Eddie, great job!
CONGRATULATIONS ALL FENCERS!
Oksana Samorodova goes undefeated at the
2010 Dallas,TX
Regional Open Circuit, and
DIV 1 A National Qualifier,
bringing home the GOLD Medal and a
A11 Ranking!
Congratulations Oksana!
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Oksana Samorodova
for being accepted to
Penn State c/o 2015
on a fencing scholarship!
Good Luck being a Nittany Lion!
and bring back 3 medals from Columbus, OH
March 4-6,
including 1 GOLD!
Laura Muniz- 1st Place Youth 8 Women's Epee, 5th Place Youth 10 Women's Epee
Ingrid Mayer- 6th Place Youth 10 Women's Epee
Julian Maldonado- 7th Place Youth 12 Men's Epee
to Elizabeth Gilbert
for an outstanding result in Houston, TX - December 4, 2010.
5th Place in Div II Women's Epee
shines being the ONLY GIRL
in the Top 8 at
one of the best
Texas Tournaments of the Year.
Earning 8th Place and her A10 Rating!
Congratulations!
YOUTH TOURNAMENT
Congratulations to ALL of the new fencers at AFA for an awesome first fencing tournament this spring! Showed great talent and improvement! Good Luck in the season!
2010 SUPER YOUTH CIRCUIT
IN HOUSTON, TX
Ingrid Mayer brought home the GOLD medal in Youth 10 Girl's Epee!
Nicole Eliseev brought home a 7th place medal in Youth 10 Girl's Epee!
Tzarina von Fritsch brought home the BRONZE medal in Youth 12 Girl's Epee!
Sean Nesloney brought home the BRONZE medal in Youth 14 Boy's Epee!
AFA is very proud of Tzarina and Olivia who have joined the cadre of AFA youth fencers who have repeatedly won medals at the U.S. National Championships since AFA's inception.
Way to go Tzarina and Olivia!!
Elizabeth Gilbert
for an outstanding result at the
5th North American Cup of the year in Dallas, TX.
Finishing 5th in the Division II Women's Epee Tournament
earned Elizabeth a very greately deserved C10 rating!
The next big event is the NAC F in Virginia Beach where AFA anticipates a great showing from our Youth and Div 1 fencers.
With a total of 96 events, the USFA's Summer Nationals is the largest fencing event in the world and it showcases some of the most talented fencers in the United States, including the four medalists from Alamo Fencing Academy.
Farah Lee-Elabd won a Bronze Medal in the Girl's Youth 10 Epee event, missing making it to the Gold medal bout by a single touch. Anna Tolley, who fenced in the Girl's Youth 14 Epee event, added an Eighth Place medal to her growing collection of fencing awards.
Coach Andrei was especially proud of Robin Cheong who barely missed making it to the medal rounds in the Boy's Youth 10 event. Robin has great potential according to the coach and can be a great fencer one day!
All coaches received USFCA certificates of attendance. Three coaches received their Moniteur certifications!
961 Isom
San Antonio, TX 78216
Phone: (210) 260-3804
Email: alamofencing@yahoo.com
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