Tim Morehouse Saber Fencers Bring Home Fifteen Medals at the American Challenge RYC/RJCC

Bronze Medalist Madison Four-Garcia and Coach Sara

Gold Medalist Robert Wang and Coach Achiko

Highlights:

• William Morrill won a Gold Medal in Cadet Men's Saber

• Aram Clark won a Gold Medal in Youth-10 Men's Saber

• Robert Wang won a Gold Medal in Youth-14 Men's Saber

• Chelsea Delsoin won a Silver Medal in Cadet Women's Saber

• Enzo Bero won a Silver Medal in Youth-12 Men's Saber

• Fiona Neibart won a Bronze Medal in Cadet Women's Saber

• Brynnley McKee won a Bronze Medal in Youth-12 Women's Saber

• Nazir Primus won a Bronze Medal in Youth-12 Men's Saber

• Sasha Slobodsky and Madison Four-Garcia won a Bronze Medal in Junior Women's Saber

• Isaac Yook and Zihou Dai won a Bronze Medal in Youth-10 Men's Saber

• Adele Bois and Catalina Berrios won Top-8 medals in Women’s Saber

• Justin Morrill, Aram Clark, Aster Oh, Yahor Lahotska, and Gabriel McCarthy won Top-8 medals in Men’s Saber

• Madison Four-Garcia, Amanda Li, Aria Bevacqua, Fiona Neibart, and Yifei Liu placed Top-16 in Women’s Saber

• Aster Oh, Connor Chung, Miles Chambers, Seth Edelman, and Shaun Kim placed Top-16 in Men’s Saber

King of Prussia, PA (April, 2021) - Saber students of Tim Morehouse Fencing Club competed in the American Challenge RYC/RJCC, a jam packed two-day tournament at Valley Forge Casino Resort. Our fencers participated in many different competitions, achieving great results on the fencing strip. They were accompanied by Coaches Achiko, Sara, Maksim and Chris throughout the events.

Tim Morehouse Saber fencers achieved 15 medal-wins throughout the tournament. Notably, William Morrill, Aram Clark, and Robert Wang achieving Gold Medals, Chelsea Delsoin and Enzo Bera winning Silver Medals, and Fiona Neibart, Brynnley McKee, and Nazir Primus achieving Bronze Medals.

Our fencers brought home seven Top-8 Medals as well. Top-8 Medals were achieved by Adele Bois and Catalina Berrios in Women’s and Justin Morrill, Aram Clark, Aster Oh, Yahor Lahotska, and Gabriel McCarthy in Men’s competitions.

A spectacular competition was had for TMFC Fencers. Way to go!

A second article featuring our Foil and Epee fencers from the tournament will be coming shortly.

Full Results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/DA48C64FFB954BA0B97A70779780EFE4#today

Gold Medalist William Morrill, Coach Achiko, and Top-8 Medalist Justin Morrill

Aram Clark bringing home the Gold Medal!

TMFC Fencers Win Medals at the Boston Fencing Club SYC

William Morrill

Aria Bevacqua

Highlights:

• William Morrill won a Gold Medal in Men's Saber Y-14

• Nazir Primus won a Silver Medal in Men's Saber Y-12

• Iris Yang won a Bronze Medal in Women's Foil Y-10

• Aram Clark won a Bronze Medal in Men’s Saber Y-10

• Emilio Gonzalez won a Bronze Medal in Men's Saber Y-12

• Aria Bevacqua won a Bronze Medal in Women’s Saber Y-14

• Shaun Kim won a Bronze Medal in Men's Saber Y-14

Boston, MA (March 2021) - Tim Morehouse Fencing Club participated in the Boston Fencing Club SYC. The tournament took place from March 26-28, and featured Men’s and Women’s Saber, Foil, and Epee events. Tim Morehouse Fencers won one Gold Medal, one Silver Medal, and five Bronze Medals.

TMFC Coaches Achiko and Tim provided support at the tournament.

In Men’s Saber, William Morrill won a Gold Medal, Nazir Primus won a Silver Medal, and Aram Clark, Emilio Gonzalez, Shaun Kim won Bronze Medals. Iris Yang and Aria Bevacqua both won Bronze Medals in Women’s Foil and Saber.

Congratulations to all of our fencers and coaches!

Full Results: https://fencingtimelive.com/tournaments/eventSchedule/8F40C2D6939348FF966294F77F921202#today

Coaches Achiko and Tim with the medalists! Great job fencers!

Meet The Fencing Coaches - Saber Coach Chris Cheney

Coach Chris Cheney is 2x team national champion and is currently a professional coach and program consultant for multiple saber clubs. Chris has 10 years of professional coaching experience including six years owning and running a successful saber program in Nashville Tennessee that produced multiple state and regional champions, national medalists, and internationally competitive athletes.

For Online and In-Person Lessons and Classes:
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In addition to coaching, Chris is a referee on the international, national and NCAA circuit. He has refereed numerous times at the US National Champions and Junior Olympics as well as traveled to referee international competitions.

Chris teaches classes and gives lessons in addition to supporting the students at Tim Morehouse Fencing Club as they travel and compete on the regional, national and international level.

Chris finds his love of fencing in the logic of the fight and the aesthetic of the technique and finds joy in sharing this passion.

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Summer Youth Fencing Camps 2021 - Time is Running out to Save 50% Off Each Week!

Tim Morehouse Fencing Club has a big summer planned for our campers and the best savings we will offer on enrolling for summer camp is ending on March 15, 2021! If you enroll before this deadline you will receive 50% off every week of youth camp during the Summer!

More camp news will be coming soon including news about Elite Summer clinics and sleep away camp.

Enroll Here:
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Our Youth Champions Fencing camps are a fun and exciting way to learn fencing and make a lot of progress under the supervision of our Elite coaching staff. The camps are geared for students 6-12 years of age with groups for beginner, intermediate and competitive fencers at both our Manhattan and Westchester locations.

We are offering saber fencing in Manhattan and both foil and saber at our Westchester location.

If you’d like to see video of our Youth camps, please go here:
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New York, NY 10024

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Port Chester, NY 10573

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TMFC in Collegiate Fencing

Many TMFC fencers participate in collegiate fencing after their start at Tim Morehouse. Fencing in college enriches student experiences and can be a fantastic outlet for students to make connections. Our fencers have gone on to compete for Yale, Columbia, Notre Dame, UNC and Brandeis amongst other colleges.

Read more here.

This past weekend, TMFC fencer Michael Parkhurst competed in his first collegiate tournament fencing for Drew. He went 5-1 for victories during the day, helping lead the sabre team to victory. Congratulations Michael on your first collegiate event! We’re so proud to see our fencers continue to thrive in fencing!

Read the full article here: https://www.drewrangers.com/news/2021/2/6/mens-fencing-fencing-teams-open-season-with-mini-series-versus-sacred-heart.aspx

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Missing Mom at Mission

Missing Mom at Mission

By Zack Brown

Mission Fencing Club hosted an RJCC in mid-November and allowed ONLY fencers into the venue - NO coaches and NO parents. While this is the norm in Europe - where parents typically don’t accompany their kids to competitions (it’s more like a class trip for them) - it’s an experimental covid-precautionary rule here. What did people think about this tournament? Here’s a look from the perspectives of a referee, a fencer, and a parent!

Referee:

For me, the tournament was wonderful. Mission, led by Jeff and Jenny Salmon, are always on top of their game hosting quality events. I felt incredibly safe with the limited numbers. As refs, we were told to always use hand signals with our calls and not to double strip because cameras corresponded with specific pools. When spectators were allowed in the previous event, they were not permitted on the fencing floor at all, but that just ended up with close gatherings in the designated areas (not in the ref room… no one wants to hang out with us anyway). Overall, the tournament was controlled and calmer without the pressure on the fencers from coaches and parents.

Fencer:

Athletes at the event appreciated the feelings of safety and reduced stress, but at the cost of competitiveness. One fencer pointed out that, “Normally, parents and coaches yell at their fencers to encourage them, but it leads to a certain pressure to succeed.” However, she added that without that pressure, she felt less driven and motivated. Maggie Shealy, Brandeis sophomore, portrayed the setting as “ominous.” Typically, chatter between fencers flourished, but she found she didn’t approach anyone unless they were about to fence. Maggie felt a void of usual intensity: “Fencers derive a lot of their energy from spectators, fans, and teammates… without [them] cheering it’s kinda challenging to formulate some external energy.”

Parent:

Before the event, parents were informed that camera numbers would be posted online with the pool and DE assignments. This way, the whole family could watch athletes from the comfort of their cars (as comfy as a Civic can be). Luckily, an accommodating Starbucks nearby permitted all the parents to gather and use their Wi-Fi, which facilitated virtual spectating. Aria Bevacqua’s mom, Amy, was “a little apprehensive about leaving [Aria] there by herself, but the wonderful thing about the fencing community is that all the kids are so helpful and kind, and a lot of the older girls looked out for her!” I, personally, saw a similar camaraderie in the athletes and how they stepped up to be each other’s strip coaches.

Overall:

I’m always a huge fan of Mission Fencing Club and their tournaments. This radical change made me like them more for being so proactive with precautions in epidemic times. Everyone I talked to, like Amy Bevacqua, missed having coaches there, but felt the event was, “quite good and… would have no problem continuing tournaments in this way for as long as necessary.”

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College Fencing - What's Best For You?

College Fencing: The Drawbacks of Division 1 

By Zack Brown

The biggest reason people do fencing is to get into a good school (or because you actually ENJOY fencing… NERD!). Too many people rule out smaller schools because of their fencing teams!

While the reveries of joining an NCAA championship team are appetizing, there are some cold, unsavory truths to consider when looking at the school you’ll spend 4 years of your life fencing for. 

It’s not going to be pretty, but here are some deets to deliberate on when weighing your college teams of choice!

Realistically: 

Most people are NOT going to get a scholarship for fencing! 

Unless you are on the national team (for the USA, not just... Siberia), a full ride to any high-powered athletic school for fencing is going to be out of reach. Fencing isn’t a lucrative sport, so even partial scholarship availability is going to be QUITE limited to very specific athletes (unless you’re at Harvard……. Or is it too soon to make that joke?). 

If you are on that short list, fantastic! Enjoy free money! Otherwise, consider smaller schools like NJIT or LIU, both of which have programs where their coaches (Jason Henderson and Ivan Lee, respectively) can grant TONS of scholarships to athletes. 

Realistically:

The big teams are STACKED!

The teams that typically win NCAAs (Notre Dame, Columbia, PSU) have a LOT of people gunning to be on their starting lineup. There are only 9 bouts for your weapon each match. Unless you’re a consistently impressive starter, you will have to choose: Do you want to juggle strip time with 10 other competent fencers and spend most of the matches as a cheerleader? Or do you want to be the superstar on your team and fence every match? Look at how Tim Morehouse left a LEGACY at Brandeis!

Weigh the bout opportunity of a smaller team roster versus becoming a faceless sparring partner at a big-name school. Is a potential championship ring worth not ACTUALLY fencing?

Realistically:

Most people are NOT going to fence after college! 

At the last Div 1 I fenced, I counted 8 people in the field of 170 who were out of college. Along with the hefty price tag, fencing is VERY HARD to do recreationally without a strong club nearby. Unless you are fighting for a national team spot, the justification to continue fencing past graduation becomes harder to find when there’s not an endgame. 

Put your hard work in now, but be cautious about picking a university PURELY for fencing when you might not pick up a weapon post-graduation. 

Realistically:

Decide what’s best for YOU!

Choose your college because it FEELS right! Whichever school you pick, the camaraderie and adventures you’ll experience with your team last a lifetime. The low-stress environment of a club team is as much fun as the intense focus needed in every bout of NCAA fencing. Select YOUR right fit. You’ll love the college fencing trip regardless of the path you take. 

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TMFC Foil Open Jan 9th 2021 Results

What better way to start the year than a fencing tournament?

Over the weekend, Tim Morehouse Fencing Club hosted a Senior Mixed Foil event with Tim Morehouse foilists killing it. Here are the results:

Special congratulations to fencers Finn Hossfeld, Richard Li and Gerald Wang for earning new ratings in 2021!

Looking forward to our next one! Keep up to date on our upcoming tournaments by checking out our tournaments page: https://www.timmorehousefencing.com/calendar