New National Rankings!

The new national rankings are posted on the USFA site. The club did fantastic! In the Cadet Saber Nathan Cho ranked 14th in the men's and Cait Schneider ranked 23rd! In the Youth 14 Saber Connor Gibson is 15th, Mason Mitchell is 20th, George Neal is 44th and Blake Gordon is 51st for the men, in the women's ranking Arden Youngblood ranked 12th and Avery Youngblood ranked 23rd! In Youth 12 Saber Blake Gordon ranked 9th in the nation for men and in Youth 10 Saber Jason Meng ranked 6th in the nation!

I can't say enough how proud we all are of our fencers! To have 10 nationally ranked fencers in the club at one time! All of you deserve a big congratulations for all your hard work!

DFC Alumni in the news!

Just wanted to give everyone an update on how Jared did as a freshman on the Haverford fencing team. He finished 6th at the MACFA Conference championship and 20th at the NCAA Mid Atlantic/South Regional Championship! Also his team was undefeated at Dual Meets this season! Not bad for his first year! You can read more about the team at the Haverford fencing website.

The North American Cup in Tucson

Congratulations to Blake Gordon! Blake finished 5th in the Youth 12 men's saber at the North American Cup tournament in Tucson! He also finished 30th in the Youth 14 event! Also Congratulations to Blake's sister Allie who finished 19th in the Women's Youth 12 saber event!
Update!
The results from the youth 10 events are in and Jason Meng won the Silver in the men's saber event! Congratulations Jason!

Scarborough faire

Connor, George, Mason and Nick went down to the Renaissance Festival this weekend.

Great results at the Oz Parsons!

Congratulations to Nick! Nick Schneider won the men's saber event this weekend, not only did he take home a really nice sword for a trophy the points he earned also put him into second place in the southwest section circuit cup standings for the season!
Also in the men's saber, Nathan and Mason tied for second and Connor and George tied for 6th! With everyones finishes this season our club has 5 of the top 8 fencers in the section cup point standings!

In the women's saber Cait Schneider finished 3rd and the points she earned made her the southwest section circuit cup champion for the season!

If anyone has pictures from the event please send them to me so I can post them.