 3-weapon day camp run by Laurence ("Laurie") Schiller, storied Northwestern University Head Fencing Coach, with the coaching staff from the Swarthmore College Fencing Team in Liberty Fencing Club's new air-conditioned facility with state-of-the-art sprung floors. July 16-20 for beginners. July 23-27 for experienced thru advanced fencers.
Laurie is in his 35th season as the Head Coach of Northwestern's NCAA Division I Fencing Team. He is the 2nd winningest coach in NCAA history. He is the 8-time Midwest Collegiate Coach of the Year and 2-time USFCA National Collegiate Coach of the Year. He's a USFCA certified Fencing Master. Past students include other coaches, numerous NCAA All-Americans and USA Olympic Team member Jim Carpenter. Laurie's full bio is available at: http://www.nusports.com/sports/w-fenc/mtt/schiller_laurie00.htmlWeek 1 (July 15-19, 2013): Open to Fencers With No Experience & Fencers of All Levels Week 2 (July 22-26, 2013): Experienced thru Advanced Fencers Only LFC Fencing Camp starts at 9:00 AM and ends at 5:00 PM Monday through Friday. Early drop off and late pick up are available. BYOL – Bring Your Own Lunch (refrigerator & microwave available). Liberty Fencing Club’s summer day camp is designed for competitive and beginner fencers in sabre, epee, and foil. The first week of camp is for beginners and fencers of all experienced levels. The second week is for experienced fencers through advanced fencers. If beginners complete the first week and pass a proficiency test they may attend the second week. The program includes fitness instruction, games, skill training, tactics/strategy, competitive bouts, and more. Our experienced head fencing coaches are from Northwestern University and Swarthmore Colleges and have all coached, fenced, and/or refereed on the national and international level. All classes are held in our outstanding air conditioned facility with a new state-of-the-art sprung floor with 9 permanent fencing strips. For more information, please visit http://www.libertyfencingclub.com/summer-fencing-camp-2013---laurie-schiller.htmlFor more information and bios of some of the coaches, please visit our About the Coaches page.  | liberty_summer_camp_brochure_2013_01-30-2013.pdf | | File Size: | 1461 kb | | File Type: | pdf |
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Beginning on Wednesday, January 23, Margo Szabunia will teach epee classes and be available for private lessons at Liberty Fencing Club! Margo is one of the pioneers of women's epee with very impressive results and a consistent USFA "A" rating in both foil and epee over a span of several decades. She fenced under 3-time Olympian & Hall of Fame coach Dave Micahnik and Olympic Team coach and Hall of Famer Lajos Csiszar at the University of Pennsylvania. After Penn, she continued to train with legendary epeeist and coach Iosif Vitebskiy. She was an assistant coach at Temple University in the 1980s and attended Coaches College in Colorado Springs. Margo also began coaching epee at Swarthmore College in 2012. As a junior fencer, she trained at the New York Fencers Club and at a club in Poland ("Piast"). Margo has represented the United States in competing abroad (Mexico, Canada, England, France) --- most recently in 2008 as a member of the U.S. Veterans World Team in Limoges, France. She is very personable and a lot of fun. Margo is extremely excited to begin coaching at Liberty FC and work with fencers at a variety of experience levels.
Liberty Fencing Club is honored to be hosting the first stand-alone Army-Navy dual meet in decades! The cadets from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY) will be fencing the midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) on April 21, 2012 at our new Warrington, Pennsylvania location! Army and Navy will each fence the British Royal Marines in foil. Army and Navy will each field full men's and women's fencing teams who will compete separately in an NCAA dual meet format. In that format, there will be 9 bouts per gender per weapon (total 27 bouts per gender). Each weapon squad (epee, sabre, foil) in each gender must win 5 of 9 bouts to win; each gender team must win 14 of 27 bouts to win, and the team with 28 or more total victories takes the overall combined men's/women's 6-weapon team crown. The British Royal Marines will be a special guest and will field a foil squad to compete against the foil squads from Army & Navy. Those matches will be in Olympic format, scored on a 45-touch relay. The men's events are tentatively scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM and conclude at roughly 2:30 PM. The women's events are scheduled to begin immediately after the conclusion of the men's events. This will be a great opportunity for people to see a collegiate fencing meet close to home and, most importantly, support the future leaders and officers of our armed forces! Some U.S. Olympians will be refereeing, including Ivan Lee (2004) and David Micahnik (1960, 1964, 1968; and US Fencing Hall of Fame). Bob Campbell, a member of the Philly Pops and co-owner of IQnection (a local web design, marketing, and hosting company) will be performing the National Anthems of the United States and United Kingdom. There is NO ENTRY FEE. Admission is on a first come, first-served basis and is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! More info to follow, so please check back frequently! Please contact us with any questions!
Swarthmore College, coached by LFC coaches, will be hosting the 84th annual National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association Championships - the longest continually-contested championship in any women's sport. Admission is free and open to the public. Please come by and check out the collegiate team and individual events. NIWFA member teams include: - City College of New York
- Drew University
- Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Haverford College
- Hunter College
- Johns Hopkins University
- Mount Holyoke College
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Queens College
- Rutgers University
- Smith College
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- Stony Brook University
- Swarthmore College
- Temple University
- United States Military Academy
- University of Florida
- University of Maryland
- University of Virginia
- Virginia Tech
- Yeshiva University
Details available at www.NIWFA.com
We have posted 6 new tournament dates to AskFred! Below are the links for information and to register. February 12, 2012 - SABRE
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=17491 -Open Sabre (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Y10 & Y12 Sabre (check-in closes 10:30 AM) February 26, 2012 - FOIL & EPEE
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=17492 -Open Foil (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Y10 & Y12 Foil (check-in closes 10:30 AM -Open Epee (check-in closes 2:00 PM) -Y10 & Y12 Epee (check-in closes 2:00 PM) March 4, 2012- SABRE
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=17495 -Open Sabre (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Y10 & Y12 Sabre (check-in closes 10:30 AM) March 11, 2012- FOIL & EPEE
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=17496 -Open Epee (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Y10 & Y12 Epee (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Open Foil (check-in closes 2:00 PM) -Y10 & Y12 Foil (check-in closes 2:00 PM) April 1, 2012- SABRE
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=17493 -Open Sabre (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Y10 & Y12 Sabre (check-in closes 10:30 AM) April 22, 2012- FOIL & EPEE
http://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=17494 -Open Foil (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Y10 & Y12 Foil (check-in closes 10:30 AM) -Open Epee (check-in closes 2:00 PM) -Y10 & Y12 Epee (check-in closes 2:00 PM) (NOTE: Y10 & Y12 events are for fencers born in 1999 or later)
The events will be held at our NEW full-time location in Bucks County
(opening February 1). The location will feature state-of-the-art sprung floors,
11-12 permanent strips, and central heat and air conditioning!
ALSO, on April 21 @ 1:00 PM, we will be hosting the first Army-Navy fencing dual meet in decades! More info is available in our Blog (click link) Please let me know if you have any questions.
Liberty Fencing Club is honored to be hosting the first stand-alone Army-Navy dual meet in decades! The cadets from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY) will be fencing the midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy (Annapolis, MD) on April 21, 2012 at our new Warrington, Pennsylvania location! Army and Navy will each fence the British Royal Marines in foil. Army and Navy will each field full men's and women's fencing teams who will compete separately in an NCAA dual meet format. In that format, there will be 9 bouts per gender per weapon (total 27 bouts per gender). Each weapon squad (epee, sabre, foil) in each gender must win 5 of 9 bouts to win; each gender team must win 14 of 27 bouts to win, and the team with 28 or more total victories takes the overall combined men's/women's 6-weapon team crown. The British Royal Marines will be a special guest and will field a foil squad to compete against the foil squads from Army & Navy. Those matches will be in Olympic format, scored on a 45-touch relay. The men's events are tentatively scheduled to begin at 1:00 PM and conclude at roughly 2:30 PM. The women's events are scheduled to begin immediately after the conclusion of the men's events. This will be a great opportunity for people to see a collegiate fencing meet close to home and, most importantly, support the future leaders and officers of our armed forces! Some U.S. Olympians will be refereeing, including Ivan Lee (2004) and David Micahnik (1960, 1964, 1968; and US Fencing Hall of Fame). Bob Campbell, a member of the Philly Pops and co-owner of IQnection (a local web design, marketing, and hosting company) will be performing the National Anthems of the United States and United Kingdom. There is NO ENTRY FEE. Admission is on a first come, first-served basis and is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! More info to follow, so please check back frequently! Please contact us with any questions!
Long but awesome day so far for Swat Fencing! *Team breakfast at hotel *Practice at Air Force Academy in the Cadet Gym (West) *Team Sweats Ceremony *Lunch with views of Pike's Peak & NORAD (Cheyenne Mountain) *Team tour of US Olympic Training Center *Team "Locker Room" in the US Olympic Hall of Fame *Pics in the USA Rings and at the Olympic Flame torch with Cheyenne Mtn & Pike's Peak in the background *Gave fencing lesson by the indoor pool to Chris *Fun team dinner at a cool Greek restaurant where they sing, dance, breathe fire, light food on fire at your table, and yell OPA while smashing plates *Tomorrow we have the humbling privilege of fencing some of the best teams in the nation at the Western Invitational (Air Force, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Florida, CalTech, UC San Diego, and Stanford)*Watch the Western Invitational LIVE at: http://www.goairforcefalcons.com/allaccess/?media=290814 *And we are still here for 3 more days with more fun events planned!
Good Luck @SwatFencing at the Western Invitational at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs this weekend! Liberty Fencing Club coach Marshal Davis will be leading Swarthmore College against some of the nation's best NCAA and USACFC teams:
-U.S. Air Foce Academy
-University of Florida
-Northwestern University
-Notre Dame University
-University of California San Diego
-Cal Tech
-Stanford University
Notre Dame just won the NCAA National Championship in 2011, and Florida won its 3rd consecutive USACFC National Championship, so Swarthmore (coming into its 5th year in existence after finishing 6th in the nation and winning its 3rd consecutive SAC conference championship) will have its work cut out for them!
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