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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  

The Club had a great Christmas party at the Loft this year. Despite a last minute change of venue due to the UTS crane incident, the party was well attended and a lot of fun. The club also took this opportunity to present the Annual Awards –

      Congratulations to our UTS Fencing club members on their results at the recent AUG!   Men’s Foil   20th place: Chris McDonald 21st place: Christian Jansen Men’s Epee 16th place: Chris McDonald Men’s Novice Foil: 3rd place: Christian Jansen 8th place: Ali Syed Women’s

Some of the great results for UTSFC from the recent Australian Championships held last week in Canberra: Men’s National Champion in Foil: Edison Wei Ting Cai (UTS Fencing Club) Women’s National Champion as well as Junior champion in Foil: Lishan Sung UTS Fencing Club) Men’s National (and