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  Our fencers performed very well at the recent (27th October) NSW Men’s Foil Championships. Congratulations to Edison for successfully defending his title and also to Alex Kennedy for his first bronze medal placing in an Open competition. Well done also to Rowan for his final’s  placing!

Our UTS Men’s teams put in a very strong performance, finishing first and third UTS A Men’s Team : Gold UTS B Men’s Team: Bronze UTS B team was defeated by the UTS A team in a semi final.   UTS A team went on to defeat

Good work Team UTS, which came away from 2013 AUG with 1 gold and 1 Bronze, and many personal bests. Congratulations to: Rita Tsiamoulis – Gold in Women’s Novice Foil (Rita’s first medal and first competition in fencing); Jade Tainturier – Bronze in Women’s Novice Foil; Zhuliang

UTS Epeeists are rocking, taking out both the Open Men’s and Open Women’s Epee Teams State Championship titles.   Well done teams. Men’s Epee Team ( David Jin – Captain, Ian Powell, Oscar Hargraves, Regan Clarke); Women’s Epee Team (Julie Seggie – Captain, Elizabeth Duff, Emily Principe);  

  Congratulations to: Elizabeth Duff – 7th place in the Women’s Epee even. Lizzy was the highest placing NSW fencer for this event; Emily Principe – a well fought top 16s finish;

  Congratulations to Anna Slowiaczek on her 7th place in Ladies’ foil (50+) event, and her 30th place in Ladies’ Epee (50+) event. Also congratulations to UTS Staff member Sarah Osvath for her fantastic placing of 9th place in the Ladies Epee (50+) event;  and Richard Purdie

Congratulations to Richard Purdie (Men’s Foil) , Annabelle Slowiaczek  (Women’s Foil and Epee) and Min Yi Du (Women’s Sabre) who have been who have been selected to compete in categories above in the 2013 World Veteran’s Championships in October.

Congratulations to all of our fencers who competed in the Robyn Chaplin Memorial tournament in Adelaide. The club came away with 8 medals across a range of categories including first and third places in Women’s Foil and first place in Women’s Sabre: Gold Lishan Sung (Women’s Foil)

Lishan Sung has been announced as the winner of the 2012 Junior Magpie Award at the Magpie Award Sportsman’s Luncheon on Friday 31st May 2013. Lishan was up against a field of very strong nominees from a range of sports for this award. UTS Fencing congratulates Lishan

Check out the following video on YouTube – it shows footage for Team UTS during the 2012 Uni Games – including some fencing at about the 3.15 mark as well as action from our other UTS sports clubs. The YouTube video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT0UGZ_fkR4