Welcome back everyone!
The team looks forward to a successful competitive 2004-2005 season after repeating as National Champions. The team has graduated a number of members, but continues to show the strong increase in interest we have been experiencing the last few years. As the team transitions we look forward to continued success. The team has a full schedule planned with intercollegiate dates as well as frequent USFA tournaments. Taro Yamashita returns as Epee Coach and Lead Instructor, and is joined on the coaching staff by Ariana Klinkov and recent graduate, Leo Cook. We are happy to be welcoming back Julian Tyson as faculty advisor."

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NEWS: April 17th: Several UMass fencers took a short hop to NoHo this weekend to compete at the Paradise City Open. Congrats to Ben White and Matt Casey for earning their new letters (B05 and C05 respectively).

April 5th: UMass returns from club nationals with a large pile of medals, a gnome, and not a lot of sleep! Results are on the results page, as you might expect.

March 26th: Welcome back from spring break everyone! UMass brings home two national medals from the Div II/III NAC as Leo Cook takes 6th place in Div III Men's Foil and Mike Eskin takes 8th in Div II Men's Sabre. UMass looks ahead now to our final competition of the season at club nationals in Michigan this upcoming weekend.

Feburary 6th: UMass had a Super Sunday of its own as it kicked off the semester's collegiate schedule by traveling down to Sacred Heart for dual meets this Sunday. UMass returned victorious, beating both varsity programs and even managed to make it back to Amherst before kickoff. Go UMass!

Janurary 30th: Welcome back! A contingent of fencers competed in Boston this weekend at the Beanpot Open. Highlights include newcomer Leland Grigoli's Bronze Medal in the men's epee open (earning him a minty fresh "C" '05) and alum Jessica Yu's Silver medal finish in the women's epee open. As usual, results are located on the results page. Way to go guys!

November 27th: Happy Thanksgiving! A couple of fencers were around Boston this weekend and competed in the Turkey Open while Tyler Jacobson was busy earning some hardware at the Turkey Stab Open at Candlewood. Results are updated on the Results page. Congratulations everyone on a productive fencing-filled weekend!

November 21th: Apparently fencing once in a weekend isn't always enough. Klaus Broscheit, Longjie Dai, and Barak Shilo followed up on the NFC by competing today in the Turkey Stab Unclassifieds at Candlewood. Klaus took home some hardware along with an E04 by finishing 2nd out of a field of 18 in Mixed Epee, while Longjie and Barak placed 7th and 10th respectively out of a field of 24 in Men's Foil. Way to go UMass!

November 20th: UMass kicked of the dual meet season with a trip to UNH for the first NFC (Northeast Fencing Conference) meet date of the year. Highlights were our men's team victory against Division 1 varsity team, Brown University, and our men's and women's team victories over our club rival UNH. Outstanding individual performances were turned in by women's sabrist Stephanie Meyers (15-3)and women's foilist Tyler Jacobson (13-3). The men's team was lead with the performance of newcomer Ben White (12-3, sabre).

November 14th: Congratulations to newcomer Leland Grigoli and Matt Casey. The pair competed in an event held at Worcester Fencing Club taking home a gold medal in men's epee (28 total competitors) and a bronze medal in men's sabre (15 total competitors) respectively. Way to go guys!

October 31st: UMass kicked off the collegiate season at the Big One on Saturday. Top finishers were Steph Meyers on her silver medal in Women's Sabre, Sarah Girard finishing 6th in Women's Sabre, Tyler Jacobson finishing 8th in Women's Foil, Leland Grigoli finishing 8th in Men's Epee, and Kathy Baldasty finishing 8th in Women's Epee. Strong finishes were also posted by Liz Wagner (finishing 10th in Women's Foil), Orin Mase (finishing 10th in Men's Epee), and Carolyn Ferry (finishing 12th in Women's Foil). Way to go UMass! Full results can be accessed on the results page.

October 17th: Information across the site has been updated. Newly updated are the 2004-2005 results, our new competitive schedule, and new varsity and novice practice times.

October 16th: The site has finally been updated for the 2004-2005 season =). As always, we still have the page of Old News. Any comments or questions about site can be sent to the new webmaster by email.

Site last updated 11/28/04.