At the National Qualifiers in Portland, Maine this weekend, Seacoast once again was the dominate team, winning six of the eight events we entered! Our Senior Men’s Epee team of Tristan Strauss, Yang Tang, and Ethan Miller had the hardest path, defeating Wicked Cool 45-35, and then defeating Portland 45-27 in the gold medal match. Our Senior Men’s Foil team, Ethan Miller, John Wolfe, and Kevin Cough defeated Wicked Cool 45-35, and then beat Downeast 45-34. Our Women’s Foil team (Yvonne Walton, Ida Choy, and Nicole Chiang) won that event, 45-35 over Downeast.
Our Junior teams won three events as well, defeating Downeast twice, 45-24 in U19 Men’s Epee (Yang Tang, Tristan Strauss, and Will Carbery), and again in U19 Men’s Foil, 45-25 (John Wolfe, Yang Tang, and Nick Shepherd). Our U19 Women’s Epee team of Victoria Kerkhove, CJ Gregory, and Isabella Connelly unfortunately had no other team enter, and so won by default.
Congratulations, Seacoast fencers and coaches!