Seacoast Fencers- Train in August, and get a great start on the upcoming season!!! The August term will meet Mondays and Wednesdays in Manchester, starting Monday, 8/2. Rochester will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting Tuesday, 8/3. Please note: the youth start times are different for each location. And the junior/adult times are 7:00 in both.

This August, there will be no children’s training in either location. Intermediate classes start at 7:00 pm in both Rochester and Manchester.

In Manchester, Youth Training will be combined with Junior/Adult Training (just for the summer), both starting at 7:00 pm. This is a change from June, and from the regular season schedule.

In Rochester, Youth Training will start at 6:30 pm, and the Junior/Adult Training will start at 7:00 pm. This is the same as the regular season schedule.

The fee for the summer training are below. Please bring your payment the first session you attend. Checks should be payable to Seacoast Fencing Club.

August Tuition Youth: $125 Junior and Adult: $135

Seacoast Fencing Club charges one fee for each age category, which will give unlimited access to the club, in both locations

See you soon!

The Northeast Division Youth Fencing Championships were held today in Concord, NH, drawing the best young fencers from Maine and New Hampshire. Seacoast Fencing Club dominated the youth foil events, sweeping the Y-12 foil, and taking the top two spots in Y-10 as well. Christian Thayer, the number one seed out of the pools, won the Y12 Mixed Foil Championship, defeating his Seacoast teammate Ethan Donahue in the gold medal bout. Cameron Ahlstrom tied for third with Connor Haugh.

Seacoast Fencing Club members also took gold and silver in the Y-10 Mixed Foil Championships. Will Chiang, age 8, defeated Josh Fellows in the final.

Christian Thayer and Cameron Ahlstrom train at Seacoast Fencing Club’s Rochester facility, while Connor Haugh and Josh Fellows train at Seacoast’s building in Manchester. Will Chiang and Ethan Donahue train at both locations.

Seacoast Fencing Club in Rochester hosted the Northeast Division Championships and national qualifier for fencers 15 years old and younger last weekend. The top 25% of the competitors are now eligible to compete at the National Championships this July in Atlanta, GA. Seacoast continued it’s 20 year streak of sending the most fencers to the Nationals, this year qualifying eight fencers from its two facilities in Rochester and Manchester, NH.
The top fencer for Seacoast was Nicole Chiang, of Hampton, winning both the U16 women’s foil and Y14 epee, and finishing second in two other events. Peter Shellenberger, of New Boston, won the U16 men’s epee, and was second in the Y14 epee. Charles Stine, of Lee, won the Y14 men’s foil. The Pentheny twins, from Litchfield, both qualified in U16 men‘s foil, with Jacob second, and Aaron third. The other Seacoast fencers who qualified for the Summer Nationals are Johanna Ebers and Emily Benz, both from Hollis, and Sucheta Tamragouri friom Nashua, all in Y14 women’s foil.

What a great day of fencing for Seacoast! At the E meet on Saturday, February 6 in Manchester, we had fencers from four states competing- New Hampshire of course, but also Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Our fencers did very well, and took first place in three of the four events. Devon Charlton defeated fellow Seacoast fencer Nicole Chiang for the gold in the Mixed Epee E, by a score of 15-13. Nick Shepherd won the Mixed Foil E, 15-5, over Kelly Litt, a Concord fencer who trains once a week at Seacoast. Isabella Connelly and Morgan Baker, who train at the Seacoast club in Rochester, tied for third in that event. Nicole Chiang won the Women’s Epee E, defeating teammate Ida Choy, 15-14, with Victoria Kerkhove finishing third. In Saber, Morgan Baker and John Terninko tied for third. Congratulations to all the medal winning Seacoast fencers!

Devon, Nicole, and Victoria will all be going to the Junior Olympics in Memphis, TN next week. Best of luck in Memphis!

What a great day of fencing this past weekend. We had 72 entries at the meet in Rochester on Saturday, January 23. Twenty two of them were from Vermont and Massachusetts, traveling several hours to fence with us. We kept all six strips busy all day, and had some great results for Seacoast fencers.
In the Youth 10 and under mixed foil, we had two Seacoast fencers in the gold medal bout! It was won by Mackenzie Chou, with Will Chiang earning the silver medal. We had another all Seacoast gold medal bout, in Youth 14 and under mixed epee- this was won by Pete Shellenberger, with Nicole Chiang taking second. Nicole was also third in Y14 women’s foil. Victoria D’Amico was second in Youth 12 and under women’s foil, and Ethan Donahue was third in Y12 mixed foil. Emily Benz and Johanna Ebers tied for third in Y14 women’s foil. Congratulations to Seacoast youth fencers!
In the Veteran’s 40 and older events, Peter Bixby and Ron Raiselis tied for third in mixed epee, and Yvonne Walton was third in mixed foil. Well, done, veterans.

The Holiday Open this weekend was a huge tournament, with 68 fencers entered in five events. And Seacoast fencers had a great day! We had one first place finish, Nicole Chiang, who won the Women’s Foil, and also finished second in Women’s Epee. Two of our former fencers, Andrew Soule-Hinds (Haverford University), and Courtney Krolikoski (UNC graduate, now living in Hungary) did very well, with Courney winning the Women’s Epee, and finishing 6th in the Mixed Epee, and Andrew finishing third in Mixed Foil, and earning a C09 rating. Dianna Hohensee finished second in Women’s Foil, and seventh in Mixed Foil, and Ida Choy finished third in both Women’s Epee and Women’s Foil. Ethan Miller finished fifth in Mixed Epee. Overall, a fine day for Seacoast Fencers! Congratulations!

This past Sunday, Seacoast fencers posted some terrific results in the E meet in Rochester. In epee, we had a two person wrecking crew in Nicole Chiang and Ida Choy, who met in the gold medal bout in both women’s and mixed epee. Nicole won both events, with Ida taking second. Great fencing by both of them! In the mixed epee, 13 year old Seacoast fencer Pete Shellenberger finished third, completing a nice sweep for Seacoast.
In a hard fought final, Josh Berk finished second in the mixed foil, and Isabella Connelly finished second in women’s foil. Congratulations to all our fencers!

Two Seacoast fencers participated in the Super Youth Tournament at Mission Fencing on Long Island this past weekend. Super Youth meets are where the best fencers in the country (and Canada) compete to earn national points. Nicole Chiang fenced extremely well, finishing fifth in Y14 Women’s Epee (not her primary weapon!), just missing the final four by one touch. She finished 12th in Y14 Women’s Foil, losing in the round of 16 to the number one seed, and eventual winner. Nicole earned national points in both events. Pete Shellenberger fenced well, and was 15th in Y14 Men’s Epee, also losing to the number one seed. Congratulations to both Seacoast fencers.

Seacoast fencers had a great showing in the E events at the Granite State Open this Halloween weekend. Isabella Connelly won the Women’s Foil E, with Hannah Atmer finishing third. Hannah also finishished tied for third with Seacoast teammate C.J. Gregory in Women’s Epee E. The men did well, too, with Nick Shepherd taking second in the Mixed Foil E, and John Strauss finishing third in Mixed Epee E.
Our results in the Open were not as impressive, but we did make the finals in two events. Tristan Strauss (John’s son) finished fifth in the Mixed Epee Open, and Dianna Hohensee (fencing unattached), who trains once a week at Seacoast, finished third in the Mixed Foil Open.
Congratulations to all our fencers!