Summer National Championships
June 28 – July 7, 2013 / Columbus, Ohio
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For full list of results visit: www.usfencing.org
Alliance has been very busy the last few months preparing for the annual summer camps that are run in preparation for the Summer National Championships. A big shout-out goes to our coaches and staff for working so hard to make such successful training sessions, and a big thank you to all the hosting families for housing so many fencers from around the nation and around the world.
Summer Nationals was a great success with Alliance taking 17 medals! Once again our Junior Men’s and Women’s Teams were the National Champions, and we took 5 gold medals!
Medalists:
Alliance Junior Women’s Team 1 (represented by Madeline Antekeier, Molly Hudson, Ally Ryf, and Gigi Vierheller)
Gold / Junior Women’s Epee Team
Alliance Junior Men’s Team 1 (represented by Jack Hudson, Anton Piskovatskov, and Lewis Weiss)
Gold / Junior Men’s Epee Team
Alliance Senior Women’s Team (represented by Ally Ryf, Anna Tolley, and Bethlehem Witte)
Bronze / Senior Women’s Epee Team
Madeline Antekeier
Gold / Cadet Women’s Epee
19th / Junior Women’s Epee
Jonathan Piskovatskov
Gold / Youth 12 Men’s Epee
Silver / Youth 14 Men’s Epee
Bronze / Cadet Men’s Epee
Barbara Vanbenthuysen
Gold / Youth 14 Women’s Epee
13th / Cadet Women’s Epee
Farrah Lee-Elabd (Olympian/Alliance)
Silver / Cadet Women’s Epee
Bronze / Youth 14 Women’s Epee
24th / Junior Women’s Epee
Ariana Rausch
Silver / Youth 10 Women’s Epee
Sofya Tkachman
Silver / Division 1-A Women’s Epee
22nd / Cadet Women’s Epee
Esteban Sanchez
Bronze / Cadet Men’s Epee
Gigi Vierheller
Bronze / Cadet Women’s Epee
12th / Junior Women’s Epee
18th / Youth 14 Women’s Epee
Isaac Herbst
5th / Youth 10 Men’s Epee
Jessica Thow
6th / Youth 12 Women’s Epee
Aidan Antekeier
7th / Division 1-A Men’s Epee
Point Winners:
Michael LoParco
9th / Veteran 40 Men’s Epee
TJ Petrosewicz
10th / Youth 14 Men’s Epee
27th / Cadet Men’s Epee
Michael Popovici
10th / Cadet Men’s Epee
Anton Piskovatskov
11th / Junior Men’s Epee
Robin Cheong (Olympian/Alliance)
15th / Youth 14 Men’s Epee
Andrew Graber
20th / Youth 10 Men’s Epee
William Graber
20th / Youth 14 Men’s Epee
Miles Weiss
22nd / Youth 10 Men’s Epee
Ally Ryf
23rd / Junior Women’s Epee
Lewis Weiss
23rd / Junior Men’s Epee
Sean Wilson
26th / Youth 14 Men’s Epee
Alexander Cope
28th / Youth 12 Men’s Epee
Darius Zacharakis
28th / Cadet Men’s Epee
Matthew Cramerus
29th / Youth 14 Men’s Epee
Matthew Shlimak
29th / Junior Men’s Epee
Camille Simmons
30th / Youth 14 Women’s Epee
Thank you to our fencers who represented Alliance in the Team events:
Senior Men’s Epee Team 1 (represented by John Cramerus, Anton Piskovatskov, and Lewis Weiss) battled mightily to the semi-finals, but lost to get into the finals. They then lost for the bronze medal by the nerve racking score of 41-42!
Veteran Men’s Epee Team (represented by Velizar Iliev, Michael LoParco, and Alexander Popovici) fought hard and lost their bout to go into the Finals by the close score of 40-39!! They sadly lost their bout for the Bronze Medal and placed 4th respectively. Way to fight, guys!
Alliance Junior Men’s Team 2 (represented by John Cramerus, Michael Popovici, Esteban Sanchez, and Matthew Shlimak) fenced awesomely into the semi-finals. Unfortunately they lost the semi-final match to meat-up with Team 1 for the gold! They fenced for the bronze medal and unfortunately did not make it losing 45-37 and placing 4th respectively. This is the closest Alliance has come to having two Alliance teams get medals in the same event! Way to go, guys!!!
Senior Men’s Epee Team 2 (represented by Michael Popovici, Nicholas Wilson, Sean Wilson, and Darius Zacharakis) fenced great into top 16! Unfortunately they lost for the top 8 with the close score of 45-43. They finished 14th respectively.
Alliance Junior Women’s Team 2 (represented by Ally Micek, Anna Tolley, Sonya Tkachman, and Barbara Vanbenthuysen) fenced very well and looked like they would finish strong. Unfortunately Alliance Team 2 had to come up against Alliance Team 1. Alliance Team 2 placed 7th respectively.
Alliance Junior Men’s Team 3 (represented by TJ Petrosewicz, Logan Shoemaker, Max White, and Darius Zacharakis) fenced well winning the first team match to get into top 32! They finished 26th respectively.
Alliance Junior Men’s Team 4 (represented by Matthew Cramerus, Goutham Nair, and Jonathan Piskovatskov) the “Youth 14 Team” placed 51st in the event respectively.
Individual Highlights:
Aidan Antekeier earned his A rating!
Farrah Lee-Elabd earned her A rating!
Jonathan Piskovatskov earned his A rating!
Sonya Tkachman earned her A rating!
Michael Popovici finished quite strongly out of pools in Cadet Men’s Epee ranking 2nd in the tournament! He fenced very well throughout the tournament then unfortunately he had to come up against teammate Jonathan Piskovatskov for the top 8. Michael finished 10th in the event respectively.
Barbara Venbenthuysen lost to get into top 8 in Cadet Women’s Epee by 1 point!!
In Division 1-A Women’s Epee Barbara Vanbenthuysen and Sonya Tkachman had to fence each other for the top 16 with Sonya being the victor 15-14!! Barbara placed 18th respectively.
William Graber fenced well in pools in Youth 14 Men’s Epee finishing 7th after DE’s! He lost for top 16 15-14! Good job, William!
Sonya Tkachman lost to teammate Gigi Vierheller for the top 16 in Cadet Women’s Epee. She placed 22nd respectively.
Matthew Shlimak lost by one point for the top 16 in Junior Men’s Epee!
Camille Simmons, after taking a long sabbatical from fencing, managed to fight hard and make Youth 14 point standings! Good job, Camille!
Molly Hudson unfortunately had to fence teammate Ally Ryf for the top 32 in Junior Women’s Epee. She finished 48th respectively.
