Summer Nationals, Day Nine: Tim Morehouse Foilists Ella Calise, Iris Yang and Kai Toomre Medal Along with Saber's Veronika Gonzalez

Minneapolis, MN (July 10, 2022) — It was a three-plus-one day, with three medals earned in foil and one in saber.

Ella Calise won her second medal of the tournament, taking bronze in Y-12 Women’s Foil. Teammate Iris Yang joined her on the medal stand in 8th place.

Kai Toomre also won bronze, in Y-10 Men’s Saber. All of the foil fencers train with Coach Slava Grigoriev at Tim Morehouse Fencing Club in Port Chester.

On the saber side, Veronika Gonzalez took bronze on Y-10 Women’s Saber.

Congratulations fencers, coaches and parents.

The 2022 USA Fencing National Championships and July Challenge are taking place at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minnesota from July 2–11, 2022. More than 4,500 competitors from 45 states and 12 foreign countries are competing in more than 100 events over 10 days. Fencers range from age seven to 84, competing in events that start as Y-10 and run to Veteran-80 with all imaginable categories of age, gender, and weapon in between.

Detailed Results for TMFC Fencers:

Y-12 Women’s Foil/135

3T - Ella Calise

8th - Iris Yang

13 - Zizi Dai

23 - Grace Feng

83 - Yunong Lin

85 - Savannah Li

89T - Amabel Wang

Y-10 Men’s Foil/114

3T - Kai Toomre

36 - Ancen Wang

47 - Michael Grigoriev

49 - Thomas Czarnecki

50 - Haochen Yu

Y-10 Women's Saber/61

3T - Veronika Gonzalez

44 - Sienna Young

45 - Charlotte Choi

Division II Men’s Foil/200

77 - Jonah Lee

Y-12 Men's Saber/145

10T - Ethan Kim

16 - Connor Chung

36 - Aram Clark

45 - Samuel Kietlinski

49T - Miles Chambers

49T - Marcus Pinto

106 - Hartigan Deely

110 - Viraat Sarwahi

119 - Zihou Dai

123 - Aidan Song

126 - Timothy Chang