Maitre d’Armes Walter Green has been awarded the United States Fencing Coaches Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Maitre Green started fencing in 1966, competing actively through the 1970s in the United States and Great Britain. He has served as a national level referee, an administrator as Mid-Atlantic Chair of the Amateur…
We are proud to announce that Prevot d’Epee Mark Logan has passed the practical examinations of the United States Fencing Coaches Association at the Association’s coaches college in Rome, Georgia, and is now Prevot de Fleurette as well. As such he is well qualified to teach and train foil and…
We are very proud to announce that Salle member Dede Deane has been selected for the United States team for the 2019 Pan American Veterans Championship to fence in Veterans Womens Sabre. The Championship will be held at the Sports Center CEFED in Cochabamba, Bolivia from the 26th to the…
Every quarter USA Fencing recognizes one individual in each of the 6 USA Fencing regions “for their commitment, dedication, respect, teamwork, inclusion, passion, sportsmanship and character.” We are proud to announce that Maitre d’Armes Walter Green has been selected as the Region Six Fencing Spirit of Sport award recipient for…
Maitre Green has been awarded the Diploma of the International Fencing Coaches Association (IFCA). For those not familiar with English practices for recognition of fencing masters, award of the Diploma identifies the individual as a full three weapon fencing master, the highest qualification for those who teach and train fencers…
In the run-up to the December North American Cup, Dede Deane fenced Veterans Women’s Sabre Combined at the Delaware Valley Fencing Club’s Veterans Sabre Tournament in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. It was a good warm-up tournament and a check for what to work on before December … and a medal against the…
Through the generous work of the Nathaniel Ewell Fencing Development Program, we now have a small lending library. In the library box you will find a growing selection of books related to fencing, including novels, biographies, fencing manuals, applicable books from other combat sports, and general fitness books. The books…
On Thursday the 24th we were happy to have Rachel El-Saleh from Salle Mauro of Houston, Texas, join our Sabre practice as the guest of Dede Deane. Between the two we had both Veterans Women’s Sabre Bronze Medalists from the Pan American Veterans Championship on the floor (Dede Bronze in…
Salle Green fencer Dede Deane earned a Bronze Medal, placing Third, in Veteran 50 Women’s Sabre, at the Pan American Veterans Championships at the University of the Virgin Islands in Saint Thomas on 27 July. And on 29 July she placed fifth in Veterans 60 Women’s Sabre. We were immensely…
Announcing the ART OF THE DUEL – a 4 session class starting on Tuesday 18 July, and running the subsequent Tuesdays at 7:00 pm for one hour each session. The focus is the duel with the Dueling Sword (the epee de terrain) as fought in the late 1800s through 1967.…