Sunday, May 06, 2007
DFA May 2007
Hi…and Happy May and Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms and grandmoms.
This is our May newsletter with all the info you need for May through August.
CONGRATULATIONS:
To Linden Ballen who has been accepted to Embry-Riddle University in Arizona and Aaron Fagan who is going to Vassar, in New York. Good academics and a fencing background played their respective roles in the young men’s admission process.
Kudos to Linden Ballen and Mitchell Link who both earned their C2007 rating in epee at the April tournament held at College of the Desert. The epee tournament was a B1 event and Mitchell took second place and Linden took third.
Lots of kudos and congratulations to Nico Bergmann who swept all the awards at the Open Call Show held at the McCallum Theatre, April 28. Nico won the ASCAP award, the People’s
Popular Vote award and the Grand Prize award. Nico played Listz’s Hungarian Rhapsody and, this summer, Nico will be in Hungary studying at the Franz Listz music conservatory.
END-OF-SEASON AWARDS:
The trophies are being engraved and the results are as follows for the 2006-2007 tournament season of the San Bernardino Division.
Men’s Foil: 2nd place, Mark Johnson, DFA
Men’s Sabre: 1st place, Scott Pippin, DFA, 2nd place, Costa Nichols
Men’s Sabre Team: 1st place, DFA, 3rd place, COD
Men’s Epee: 2nd place, Josh Butler, DFA
Men’s Epee Team: 2nd place, DFA
Women’s Foil: 1st place, Leslie Taft, COD
Women’s Foil Team: 3rd place, COD
Women’s Sabre: 1st place, Leslie Taft, COD, 2nd place, Gretchen Bueermann, DFA, 3rd place, Ellie Romig, COD
Women’s Sabre Team: 1st place, COD, 2nd place, DFA
Women’s Epee Team: 3rd place, DFA
Women’s 3-Weapon: Leslie Taft, COD
Women’s Team 3-Weapon: COD
Men’s Team Club Overall: DFA
Overall Club Champion: DFA
Please visit the DFA website, or San Bernardino Division website, for the entire points listing for all individuals and teams.
The End-Of-Season Awards ceremony will be held Sunday, May 20, at San Bernardino Valley College. It is also a fencing competition open with the usual close of check-in times.
FENCING SCHEDULE:
Our rest of the season fencing schedule is as follows:
May 11-14, DFA will be closed as we are in Las Vegas for the Pacific Coast Championships
May 20, tournament and end-of-season award ceremony at San Bernardino Valley College
June 16, the Haake und Slasche tournament held at Victor Valley High School
June 18, DFA goes into its summer schedule (summer schedule posted on the DFA website)
July 4, DFA closed
July 28, DFA closes for the summer
August 27, DFA re-opens
Wishing everyone a happy summer and blissful fencing,
-Leslie Taft
