We are very happy to announce that 8 more of our fencers secured their qualification for the Summer National Championships. This tournament is held every year in late June/early July and contests events for all ages and divisions. This year, it will be held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin! Some of our fencers have qualified through regional points, which they earn by competing in various regional competitions throughout the season.
The NJ Division also has a qualifying tournament for the Division 2/3 and Y14 events at Summer Nationals. We had 18 fencers attend the competition and our fencers earned several medals! Our fencers won the gold medal in 3 of the 4 foil events! Congrats to our medalists from today:
- Sam Belokon – Gold medal in Division 2 Men’s Foil
- Renewed D25 rating with this result
- John Lin – Gold medal in BOTH Y14 Men’s Foil and Y14 Men’s Epee!
- Claire Lin – Gold medal in Y14 Women’s Foil!
- Tatyana Bulava – Bronze medal in Division 2 Women’s Foil & Silver medal in Y14 Women’s Foil
- Renewed E25 rating with bronze finish in Div2!
- Elizabeth Bekiyants – Bronze medal in Y14 Women’s Foil
- Chris Alexander – 6th place in Division 2 Men’s Epee
Full team from today, hope to see you all continue to compete!
Div2 Men’s Foil: Sam Belokon🥇 (qualified for Division 2 & Division 3 Foil), John Sorsaia, and David Seetoo
Div2 Women’s Foil: Tatyana Bulava 🥉 (qualified for Division 2 & Division 3 Foil), Alexis Lezhansky (qualified for Division 3 Foil), and Liza Bekiyants
Y14 Men’s Foil: John Lin 🥇 (qualified for Y14), Nathan Ezekiel, Sarthak Sawant, Lucas Xu, Sebastian Principato, and Paul Satish
Y14 Women’s Foil: Claire Lin 🥇(qualified for Y14, Tatyana B. 🥈 (qualified for Y14), Liza B. 🥉 (qualified for Y14), and Diya Nair
Div2 Men’s Epee: Chris Alexander (Qualified for D2 & D3), Frankee Pondaco, and Leo Chitinashvili
Div2 Women’s Epee: Alisa Ivanushkina (Qualified for D3)
Y14 Men’s Epee: John Lin 🥇 (Qualified for Y14)
