By: Elizabeth Varin
Issue date: 4/9/08 Section: Sports
Five fencing fields lined Acker Gym Saturday as Chico State co-hosted the third annual Dare Mighty Things Open.
The fencing club helped officiate bouts and provided the facilities, but only three Chico State students competed in the event.
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Posted on April 6th, 2008 by admin
Perhaps the most enticing feature of the Wii version is a new Duel Mode, which brings together almost every Light saber-wielding Jedi and Sixth in a fast-paced versus fighting mode that incorporates all of the single-player mode’s moves into Power Stone-style brawls that take place in some of the most memorable settings in Star Wars history.
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April 6, 2008
NCCES students brandish blades
Fencing club offers challenges
By Anna L. Griffin TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
agriffin@telegram.com
FITCHBURG— The “conversation of the blades” started with a polite “en garde” and ended five minutes later with a cordial handshake.
But sandwiched between the social niceties was five minutes of an intense physical, intellectual and emotional duel that played itself out on a 6-foot by 44-foot surface.
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Wed Apr 09, 2008, 11:47 PM EDT
Concord - Dan Tovrov, former standout foil fencer at Concord-Carlisle High School, led the Tufts University men’s foil squad to victory in the Intercollegiate Club Sports National Championship meet, held last weekend at Smith College.
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By Jake Blanc
Senior Staff Writer
Thursday, Apr. 3, 2008
FENCING — The UCSD fencing team traveled to Columbus, Ohio, March 13 to 16 for the NCAA National Championships and had to deal with more than just the nation’s best fencers en route to its 13th-place finish. Beyond having 23 bouts in just two days to determine the final national rankings, the Tritons had to fight through the first half of the meet with borrowed gear, as the airline lost their luggage. Despite the trying circumstances, UCSD tallied 44 overall points during the four-day meet, finishing only a few points away from the top 10.
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By Lizzy Nielsen | Elizabeth.nielsen@am-ny.com
April 4, 2008
“Full extension! Full extension!” “Duh-duh-duh-boom! Go!”
An instructor barks the commands in a Ukrainian accent. There is a frantic squeaking of sneakers against the floor and the piercing clang of sabers. These are the sounds of young fencers as they try to thrust, parry and counter-riposte themselves toward spot a on the 2008 summer Olympic team.
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Amanda Hu
Sports Editor
April 03, 2008
“En garde!”
While the epic cry of d’Artagnan and others who ventured into sword-fighting duels seems like an echo of the past, modern fencers are strongly continuing the finessed Renaissance combat art to this very day.
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Friday, April 4, 2008
Young fencer’s goal: the 2016 Olympics
By Teresa Dunham
The Winchester Star
Winchester — Handley High School students could be sitting next to a future Olympic fencer and not even know it.
Emiliano Kaptain, 15, is humble about his skills — and he typically doesn’t announce his accomplishments at school.
“I don’t think anybody really knows,” said Emiliano, who is ranked No. 6 in the nation for Youth-14 Men’s Sabre Fencing.
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