Kids Fencing Classes
Our beginner youth class is designed for students ages 5 to 13, with little or no experience in fencing. It includes six 1 hour sessions during which students engage in conditioning exercises, footwork, drills and beginning fencing instruction.
Adult Fencing Classes
This class is geared toward adult fencers new to the sport, ages 14 and up. Here you'll hone fencing technique, basic tactical skills, while developing physical power and agility.
Club Membership
Highly specialized classes for advanced competitive fencers. Fencers here train for local and national competitions participating in rigorous training, drilling, and free fencing. These classes are overseen by the Salle's maestros.
Salle Mauro would like to congratulate two of our team champions. Ben Parkins and Colin Sutter left this past year to attend Ohio State University. Ben is on a full scholarship and Colin is on a partial scholarship. This weekend as our current team fencers were fighting for their points, Ohio State won the 2008 NCAA Fencing National Championship. Well done guys.
Emma Buckingham
Emma Buckingham of Haverford College finished 15th in women’s epee at the 2008 NCAA National Fencing Championships. She had the highest finish of any woman from an NCAA Division III school in any of the three weapons.
Her performance at the NCAAs capped a season in which she won nearly 80% of her bouts in team competition, won the epee gold medal at the National Intercollegiate Women’s Fencing Association (NIWFA) Christmas Invitational and the silver at the NIWFA Championships, and won the epee at the Eastern Women’s Fencing Conference (EWFC) Championships, becoming the EWFC epee fencer of the year.
She had qualified for the NCAA National Championships field of 24 by the strength of her season record and her sixth-place finish at the NCAA Regional Qualifiers, behind five fencers from top-ten Division I teams.
Emma Buckingham Haverford university made it to the final round at the NCAA championship Read more>
Haverford came in second in the team competition at the NIWFA championships, with Emma going 9-2. Emma then got the silver medal in the individual competition:
http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/5261/3
Emma won the epee competition at the Eastern Womens Fencing Conference individual championships. Here is the link:
http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/4991/3
Emma’s performance at the Brandeis meet. http://www.haverford.edu/news/stories/4501/3
Emma on strip at NCAA Championships
The city of Houston was host to a Super Youth Circuit (SYC) the weekend of March 14-16. An SYC is a route for some fencers to earn National Rolling Points and qualify for Summer Nationals. Salle Mauro had 43 entries and earned 23 medals. Salle Mauro fencers earned 3 gold, 2 silver, and 6 bronze medals. Salle Mauro fencers medaled in 15 of the 18 events.
The following fencers earned gold in their events:
Marwan Charafeddine Y10 Men’s Epee
Ally Micek Y10 Women’s Epee
Brandon Merz Y12 Men’s Epee.
Silver medals went to:
Michael Dudey Y14 Men’s Foil
Sarah Followill Y14 Women’s Foil.
Bronze Medalists were:
Evin Heintz Y10 Men’s Saber
Alarice Chen Y10 Women’s Foil
Chafic Charafeddine Y12 Men’s Foil
Ally Micek Y12 Women’s Epee
Hayley Gillen Y12 Women’s Saber
Denes Marton Y14 Men’s Foil
Additionally, many of our fencers earned national rolling points. National points are used to improve a fencer’s initial seeding at national tournaments. Points also qualify a fencer automatically for Summer Nationals and allow a fencer to qualify for one age group higher even if younger than otherwise allowed. This means any of our fencers with Y14 points are qualified for Y14 Championships in San Jose this summer. A Y10 fencer with Y12 points is eligible to try to qualify for the Y14 Championships.
Once more our fencers showed good sportsmanship and fought hard in their events. Logan Somera embodied this in his run in the Y14 direct eliminations, in which he upset the number 6 seed. This earned him national points and a D08 rating. Congratulations to Logan.
On a different note, we would like to congratulate two of our past youth champions. Ben Parkins and Colin Sutter left this past year to attend Ohio State University. Ben is on a full scholarship and Colin is on a partial scholarship. This weekend as our current youth fencers were fighting for their points, Ohio State won the 2008 NCAA Fencing National Championship. Well done guys. While her team went home without a medal, Emma Buckingham also fenced in the NCAA Championships. Congrats to her as well.
Finally, the coaches would like to thank the fencers and parents at Salle Mauro. Without the hard work of the fencers, none of these results would be possible. Without the support of the parents, we wouldn’t have the fencers who work so hard. We look forward to continued excellence in fencing and working with all our fencers in the future.
