Monthly archive for July 2018

Venue:                                 UTS Rose-Milbourne Sports Hall (RMSH), UTS City Campus
(beneath Alumni Green and adjacent to the existing UTS Fitness Centre, CB04)

Registration:                      www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=408699

Cost per program:                           UTS students: $80, UTS Staff: $90, Public: $120

What to bring:                   All participants should wear long tracksuit pants, T-shirt, sport shoes and bring along a leather or cotton gardening glove for their dominant hand.

Session structure:            Structured training, participants will learn the foundation technique, skills, strategy and rules of modern competitive fencing.  Suitable for fencers with experience from beginning to intermediate level.   For more information contact contactus@utsfencing.com

Dates:   Thursday (9^th Aug, 16^th Aug, 23^rd Aug, 30^th Aug, 13th Sept, 20^th Sept ) –note there is no session on 9^th Sept

Session Time:    4:00pm – 5.30pm;

Number of session:         6

Well done to all our cadets and U/15 fencers for their fantastic efforts at the recent Cadet and Under 15 National Championships (11^th July – 15^th July 2018) that were held in Sydney.    Congratulations to our latest Australian Champions, Karen Nonis and Alisa Tyschenko for their respective gold medals in the Cadet Women’s Epee and U/15 Girl Foil events respectively.     

Karen and Katherine Wang were also selected to represent NSW A in the Cadet Women’s Epee Team which won Gold in the team event, while Alisa put in a big effort in both U/15 Girls Foil Team and Cadet Women’s Foil Team, earning a Silver as well as a Gold medal in the process.

U/15 Australian Championships

Girls Foil
Gold:                Alisa Tyshchenko

Boys Sabre:
5^th place:         Ethan Kwan
11^th place:       Matius Posumah

Girls Team Foil
Silver:              Alisa Tyshchenko (NSW A)

Boys Team Sabre:
Bronze:         Ethan Kwan, Matius Posumah (NSW B)

Cadet Australian Championships

Women’s Epee
Gold:                Karen Nonis
9^th place:         Katherine Wang

Women’s Foil
13^th place:                   Alisa Tyshchenko

Men’s Sabre
21^st place:                    Nicholas Yuen
23^rd place:                   Adrian Leong
24^th place:                   Ethan Kwan

Women’s Foil Team
Gold:                            Alisa Tyshchenko (NSW A)

Women’s Epee Team
Gold:                            Karen Nonis, Katherine Wang (NSW A)