Alexander Earns His E Rating! (Other other announcements)

We had quite a number of fencers represent the AAFA at Greensboro Fencing Academy’s inaugural sanctioned tournament!

The highlight is Alexander Cantero Gignac earning his E rating with an undefeated record throughout the day. He completed pools in 3rd seed (he had a 4 person pool, while others had a 5 person pool).

Alexander continued to dominate his elimination rounds with a close one in the semi-finals (15-13) against the number 2 seed from Greensboro. Then he went to work against number seed, winning 15-4.

Let’s not forget Lily Kube! Lily nearly went undefeated in the pools (we think she should have been undefeated in the pools as well because we didn’t necessarily agree with all the calls, but fencers have to deal with that sometimes). Lily only lost one in the pools, which seeded her at 5th going into the elimination rounds!  Lily is also a senior member of the 2023-2024 Championship Homeschool Fencing Team!

Lily took it all the way to the semi-finals round, but lost to the number one seed. However, she secured another award for the AAFA taking 3rd place!

Some more hardware: Andrew Wiggs also takes a third place trophy home in the mixed sabre.

Some honorable mentions, AAFA Alum, Grace Guevarra, fencing for Appalachian State University took 18th and Paxxon Fernandez took 19th in the foil event. Paxxon also fenced in the epee event, taking 15th place.

Spell fenced in the saber event taking 11th place!

DON’T FORGET! FINAL PISACAFE CIRCUIT THIS WEEKEND BACK AT GREENSBORO

This is the final Pisacafe event for elementary and middle school fencers to earn points for the circuit. Don’t forget to sign up! Registration: https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/6226cb3f-46a1-4183-b042-ecee14d02bc7

Also, there is a post season event for homeschoolers. We are currently in discussion with Greensboro whether to make it an open team event or make it one big individual event. I’ll know by Tuesday, hopefully. Registration: https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/6226cb3f-46a1-4183-b042-ecee14d02bc7

OTHER APRIL EVENTS:

Saturday, April 13, 2024, Wilmington, NC
Lynn Krupey Memorial Iron Maiden (All Women’s Events)
Registration: https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/584c3c5a-043a-40da-bb8c-28015268e328

Saturday, April 20, 2024, Fayetteville, NC
Zane Kang Open (Separate Men’s and Women’s Foil Event)
This our home event and there is a max of 21 fencers! Let’s get as much people pre-registered as possible before it fills up!  We’d love to have all our women’s fencers available!
Registration: https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/adeeb6a4-a217-4944-8fd0-784d81f5abab/preregistrations