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About the Team
The UCSB Fencing Club offers an opportunity for intermediate and advanced fencers to practice together while at the same time emphasizing education and training for beginners. The club is open to UCSB students in good academic standing, as well as community members over the age of 13. We emphasize both recreational and competitive fencing.
We offer a beginners' two-week fencing class, and compete in foil, sabre, and epee. The best time to start these classes is at the beginning of each academic quarter, although new fencers are welcomed at any time.
The 2008-2009 Team (Nick Holmes and Tim Robinson absent)
Registration is now Online!
Here is the link for detailed instructions: http://www.gauchosplay.com/attachments/1010_Sport%20Club%20Online%20Process.pdf
Things to know about registering. You need to pay with a credit card at the end. If you absolutely must there is a way to put it on your BARC account. We ask that you please use the online form though, its much easier and we don't have to worry about paperwork for it.
You still have to fill out physical forms and get those to us by the end of the month. Read the hand out I passed out.
Non UCSB members, you can join too! Follow the Non-UCSB Student portion of that same PDF.
If you alumni are feeling generous you can join for a quarter as a donation to the club. Of course we'd love to see you here too!
So if you members could please register as soon as possible that would be great.
Competitive members, you MUST be registered and have the physical forms filled out.
Achievements of UCSB Fencing:
Intercollegiate Fencing Conference of Southern California (IFCSC)
The UCSB Fencing club competes in this conference four times a year with the season running from October to February. Our Competitors are UC San Diego, CalTech, USC, UC Los Angeles, UC Irvine, and Arizona State. At these tournaments, fencers compete in teams of three with each team categorized by weapon and gender.
This year the Coast Club Regionals will be held in Pheonix, AZ and Club Nationals in Swarthmore, PA.
- At the CalTech tornament on October 24th, the Men's Saber team triumphed over UCI and and CalTech with scores of 7-2 and 9-0 respectively. The Women's Saber team, with only two members present, also defeated UCI 6-4, but narrowly lost to CalTech 4-5.
- The Men's Foil team beat UCI 6-3 and CalTeach 81. Women's Foil lost to UCI 3-6, but destroyed CalTeach with a 9-0 victory.
- Men's Epee fell to UCI 1-8, but beat CalTech 6-3
- Next Meet: UCLA - November 22
(Updated November 9, 2009)
Collegiate Open @ UC Irvine - Oct 18, 2009
UC Irvine hosts an annual fencing tournament open to all college students. This year seven UCSB fencers attended the tournament - and all of them placed high in their respective events.
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Nick Holmes took 3'rd and Brandon Christopher placed 6'th in Men's Sabre
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Jaehun Huh placed 23'rd in Men's Epee
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Stephanie Murphy placed 5'th and Augusta Collier placed 11'th in Women's Foil
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Lindsay Stapleton placed 7'th and Annie Young placed 11'th in Women's Sabre
(Updated November 12, 2009)
UCSB fencing sent 9 fencers to the Cal Poly SLO E & Under 2010 Tournament - January 17, 2010
Four UCSB fencers competed in Sabre: Nick Holmes, Lindsay Stapleton, Brandon Christopher, and Augusta Collier - Nick and Lindsay tied for 3'rd place while both earning their E 2010, Brandon finished 6'th, and Augusta finished 22'nd in a strong showing in her first Sabre tournament
Four UCSB fencers competed in Foil: Stephanie Murphy, Augusta Collier, Lucas Nichols, and Kathleen Beal.Stephanie Murphy placed 3'rd and earned her E 2010, Augusta finished 11'th, Lucas finished 18'th in his first tournament, and Kathleen finished 26'th also her first tournament
Two UCSB fencers competed in Epee: Ben Regester and Claire Barbasch. Ben placed 1'st and earned his D 2010, Claire finished 16'th
(Updated January 18, 2010)
Cal Poly SLO holds an annual Fall tournament -- their Turkey Tournament. This year (2008) it was attended by fencers from Cal Poly, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Santa Barbara.
Ken Coleman and Stephanie Lind, the captains of the mens and womens saber squads, finished first and second out of 23 in the Mixed Saber event. Charles Poon, from the Mens foil squad, also fenced saber, finishing in 8th place, and giving our saber team a first place finish overall. Charles also won the Bronze in the Mixed Foil event. Although there were 32 entrants in that event, he was the sole foilist from UCSB.
We also sent two epee fencers, Jae Hun and Maggie Sharp, who finished 26 and 27 out of 28 in their event.
Novice foil, restricted to athletes who have been fencing for less than one year, 5 fencers from the UCSB fencing club attended, along with another 12 UCSB students from the ES class. That's 17 people from UCSB, out of a total of 51 entrants. 16 of our fencers finished in the top 32, eight of them finished in the top 16, and five were finalists, making the top 8. UCSB fencers won the Gold, Silver, and Bronze after only two months of instruction. These medalists were Alexei Mlodinow, Reese Beisser, and Yannick Concordal.
(Updated November 24, 2008)
Cal Poly Tournament, Fall Open October 12, 2008
Nick Holmes earned an E rating as a Sabre fencer.
Stephanie Lind, Charles Poon, Katia Larralde and Zephyr McIntyre were recognized with awards as well.
Cal Tech Collegiate Open, November 1, 2008
First time ever in UCSB Fencing history that all 18 competing members competed in one competition, 21 members attended total. Women's Sabre beat Irvine, and lost by 2 touches to UCSD, a NCAA team, and by 1 touch to Cal Tech, another very good team.
Notables from the 2008-2009 season:
- Full teams, Men's and Women's, in every weapon
- A fully rated Men's Sabre team
- Full Sabre teams, first time ever
- 12 new members this quarter with no prior fencing experience, our usual recruitment is 3-4, and 4 new members who have fenced previously
- 36 Members total!
Schedule/Results
Practice Schedule (updated for new Winter 2010 times)
Location:
Rob Gym, Room 2120
Mondays: (Competitive only) 3:00-6:30pm
Wednesdays: 2:00-5:00pm
Fridays: 5:00-10:00pm
Game Schedule
IFCSC Events (Event/Place/Day)
Open UCI - Oct. 18th
Team CIT - Oct. 24th
Team UCLA - Nov. 22nd
Invitational UCLA (changed from ASU) - Jan.30-31
Team UCSB - Feb. 6th
Team UCI - Feb. 20th
Roster
Men's Foil:
Moustafa Magana
Sean Rotstan
Charles Poon
Women's Foil:
Stephanie Murphy (Captain)
Alex Long
Ashley Mar
Augusta Collier
Men's Epee:
Ben Regester (Captain)
Jaehun Hu
Desmond White
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Women's Epee:
Evelyn Wakeman (Captain)
Caitlyn Kuwata
Claire Barbasch
Men's Sabre:
Nick Holmes (Captain)
Brandon Christopher
Raymond Szebert
Joey Sandoval
Women's Sabre:
Lindsay Stapleton (Captain)
Annie Young
Augusta Collier
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Tim Robinson:
Tim has been involved with the fencing club at UC Santa Barbara since 1995 and has held a lecturer position in the Exercise and Sports Studies Department at UCSB since 2002. He has also attended the US Fencing Coaches College at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. His students continue to excel in Central Coast and Southern California competitions, and have been competing nationally since 2006. In 2008 he received a Coach of the Year award from SBParent.com. He is the current chair of the Southern California Division of the USFA.
Contact Information
Please email the club at UCSB Fencing for further information.
Club Officers:
- President: Nick Holmes
- Vice President: Stephanie Murphy
- Secretary: Evelyn Wakeman
- Treasurer: Alex Long
- Health and Safety Officer: Ben Regester
- Armorer: Lindsay Stapleton
- Web Manager: Brandon Christopher
For more information, please visit www.ucsbfencing.net
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