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UTS Fencing Club held their first competition for fencers who have completed the Beginners and Intermediate Classes.

The tightly contested results are below:

Men’s Foil

Gold to David Leung
Silver to Kevin Chung
Bronze to Dennis Chan
4th – James Tomlinson, 5th – John Ladavac, 6th – David Ramli, 7th – David Moore, 8th Johnson Sun

Women’s Foil

Gold to Sue Thompson
Silver to Angelyn Tan
Bronze to Caroline Loke
4th – Peggy Ho, 5th – Shannon Tseng

UTS has taken out all 6 State Team Titles by winning the Women and Men’s Sabre teams.

We fielded 3 teams for the Men’s competition taking out Gold and Silver and 5th place.

State Team Championships – Men’s Sabre

Gold to the UTS White Team – Frank Bartolillo, Frederick Jaccard, Michael Howard
Silver to the UTS Black Team – Michael Abouaf, Alex Carioti, Michael Read, Joe Slowiaczek
5th place to the UTS Teal Team – David Donato, Paul Leone Jnr, Ashley Yue

State Team Championships – Women’s Sabre

Gold to the UTS Team – Alex Andre, Julie Seggie, Melissa Yeung

The gold medal match was between two UTS fencers, with Frank Bartolillo grabbing the gold from Joe Slowiaczek.

Also to be noted were the strong performances by other members of the UTS Men’s Foil Competition Training Squad with Ashley Yue placed 13th, Paul Leone Jnr 21st and David Donato 27th.

Other results by UTS Fencers are below:

AFF Circuit #2

Men’s Foil: Gold to Frank Bartolillo, Silver to Joe Slowiaczek
Women’s Epee: Bronze to Adele Haswell
Women’s Sabre: 6th to Melissa Yeung
Veteran Women’s Epee: Silver to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Women’s Foil: Silver to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Women’s Sabre: Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Men’s Epee: Silver to Peter Witkop in the 60+ category
Veteran Men’s Foil: Silver to Peter Witkop in the 60+ category

UTS won back the Italian Relay crown from Sydney University in an intense match. UTS got off to a good start and managed to defend the lead against their tough opponents.

The UTS B team defeated the Sydney University B team to take out the bronze with the C team missing out on the final by one hit.

UTS A

Steve Augoloupis, Frank Bartolillo, Adele Haswell, Frederick Jaccard, Dione Vosper, Melissa Yeung

UTS B

Alex Andre, Peter Chicco, Michael Howard, Julie Seggie, Karin Wang, Ashley Yue

UTS C

Tenielle Murray, Michael Prince, Georgia Read, Michael Read, Anna Slowiaczek, Myles Wilmott

UTS won 2 silver and 4 bronze medals on the weekend. The UTS women dominated the event taking out 3 of the 4 medals and also picking up a Bronze in the B Final. In the men’s event Joe Slowiaczek again showed his good form by picking up a Bronze with Myles Wilmott getting the Bronze in the B final.

Men’s Epee

Bronze to Joe Slowiaczek
Bronze to Myles Wilmott in the B Final

Women’s Epee

Silver to Adele Haswell, Bronze to Dione Vosper and Julie Seggie
Silver to Anna Slowiaczek in the B Final

At the club’s Annual Formal Dinner, the awards were presented by Judy Johnston, Chair, UTS Union Board.

The deserving winners are listed below:

Outstanding Service Award – Melissa Yeung
Best Fencer – Frank Bartolillo
Most Promising – Joe Slowiaczek
Best New Talent – Charles Carroll

UTS has taken out all of the four State Team Championship events held so far this year.

Joe Slowiaczek maintained his great form anchoring the Men’s Epee Team with Dione Vosper a strong finisher for the Women’s Foil Team.

State Team Championships – Men’s Epee

Gold to UTS – Peter Chicco, Mark Grant, Paul Leone Jnr, Joe Slowiaczek

State Team Championships – Women’s Foil

Gold to UTS – Georgia Read, Anna Slowiaczek, Dione Vosper, Karin Wang

With UTS fielding 3 Men’s Foil teams and a Women’s Epee team we were well represented and dominated the competition.

Special mention needs to be made for the Men’s Foil B Team who only lost for 3rd place by 1 hit.

State Team Championships – Men’s Foil

Gold to the UTS A Team – Steve Augoloupis, Frank Bartolillo, Alex Carioti, Peter Chicco
4th place to the UTS B Team – David Donato, Paul Leone Jnr, Ashley Yue
9th place to the UTS C Team – Ian Bryant, Charles Carrol, Michael Prince

State Team Championships – Women’s Epee

Gold to UTS – Adele Haswell, Julie Seggie, Dione Vosper

UTS will also have a strong representation at the Men’s Epee and Women’s Foil Team Championships this coming Sunday 17 April, 2005.

Joe Slowiaczek has continued his strong run of results by placing 29th at the Cadet (U/17) Foil World Championships in Linz, Austria in a 100 competitor field.

He also placed 61st in the Cadet Epee event out of 94 competitors and 50th in the Junior (U/20) Foil event our of 118 competitors.

Joe Slowiaczek has spearheaded the latest lot of results for UTS Fencers. He has been dominating Men’s Foil at both State and National, Junior and Open competitions and has now headed off for the World Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships being held in Linz, Austria.

Other results by UTS Fencers are below:

AFF Circuit #1

Men’s Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek
Men’s Sabre: Bronze to Michael Read and 5th to Michael Howard
Veteran Women’s Epee: Gold to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Women’s Foil: Bronze to Julie Seggie and Anna Slowiaczek

U/17 Competitions Men’s Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Bronze to Paul Leone Jnr and David Donato
Men’s Epee: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Silver to Paul Leone Jnr and Bronze to David Donato
Women’s Foil: Gold to Karin Wang and 8th to Tenielle Murray