The 2007 North American Cup turned out fantastic! The kids had some fantastic results, plus because of the scheduling of the events everyone got to do a little sight seeing in Albuquerque. In the Women's Events Cait Schneider finished 47th out of 81 in the Juniors, and 45th out of 78 in the Cadets. Olivia Trotter finished 48th in the Cadets also. In the Men's events Nathan Cho had a fantastic finish in the Cadets, finishing 25th out of 124! He also finished 80th out of 155 in the Junior event. Nick Schneider finished 62nd in the Cadets and 58th in the Juniors. Mason Mitchell finished 14th in the Youth 14 event and 72nd in the Cadet event. Connor Gibson finished 13th in the Youth 14 event and 93rd in the Cadet event. And Blake Gordon finished 24th in the Youth 14 event.
These results are fantastic for an event of this size! This event features the top fencers from the United States and Canada and our kids were right there with them even when fencing above their age group! They did a fantastic job!
In between tournaments the kids got to visit a lot of the sites in Albuquerque, including the Petroglyphs National Monument, Sandia Peak (10,378 feet), and the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. I'll post pictures as soon as I can get them scanned into the computer, or if any one who went has some they want to post feel free to add them!
