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11/25/14 Holiday closure alert – DCFC will be closed Wednesday, November 26 through Sunday, November 30 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen on Monday, December 1. Safe travels and a Happy Thanksgiving to you!   # # #   Past and present DC Fencers Club members met in New Haven on November […]

  For Immediate Release November 12, 2014 Contact:   Amanda Sirico is the #1 ranked Junior Women’s Epee fencer in the United States   (Silver Spring, MD) – In her first world circuit fencing tournament of the season, Amanda Sirico, 18, of Bowie, Maryland, lost no time getting to the podium, with a silver […]

11/10/14 DCFC hosts the next Champagne Challenge on Sunday, November 23 at 10:00 am.  This Senior Mixed Open Epee event is already an A1 and it will be even stronger with you there.  Join us! Register on askfred.net.    

11.4.14 HOLIDAY ALERT: On Monday, November 10, there will be NO FOOTWORK since the coaches will be in or en route back from the Louisville NAC. On Veterans Day (Tuesday, November 11), DCFC will be OPEN. Yes, it’s a federal holiday, but we will be open. Join us!   #  #  #  

  November 3, 2014   Thanks to everyone for coming to the double header Champagne Challenge on November 1-2. On both Saturday and Sunday’s events, DCFCers took podium spots and nearly swept the top eight! Congratulations to our fencers and we’ll see you at the next Champagne Challenge on November 23.   Champagne Challenge C […]

  10.30.14 We have something for everyone at DCFC.   On Saturday, November 1, at 3:00 pm, work off the Halloween candy at the C and Under/Division 2 Senior Mixed Epee event. Register on askfred.net.   Then on Sunday, November 2,  at 10:00 am, we host the Senior Mixed Epee event.  Sometimes we get Olympians like Jon Normile and […]

10.20.14 DCFC sends our heartiest well wishes to Diane Trice, Jim Adams, and Peter Calderon, who are among the more than 50 vet fencers representing Team USA at the 2014 Veteran Fencing World Championships in Debrecen, Hungary on October 21-26.This is Diane’s first Vet Worlds, and she will be competing in the Vet 50 Women’s […]

  10/15/14 Congratulations to DCFC fencers on great results at the Portland North American Cup, including Peter Souders, and Jacob Asch, who took bronze and eighth place in the Division 1 Men’s Sabre event. Ezra Wright garnered his highest national medal with the bronze in Cadet Men’s Epee. Kudos also to DCFC’s Margherita Guzzi Vincenti, […]

  10/6/14   Fencers with decades of experience gathered at DC Fencers Club for the Tom Wright Memorial Veteran Fencing Tournament, a three weapon tournament sponsored by the Capitol Division. The tournament honors Wright, a longtime Capitol Division fencer who fenced sabre at Harvard graduating in 1941. After retiring from a distinguished career as an […]

  9/30/14   Congratulations to DCFC fencers on great results at the Fall Regional Youth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia last weekend! Proud parents, remember to share your pictures on the DCFC Facebook page so we can share the love!   Yunice Pyo, gold, Y14 Women’s Epee   Justin Haddad, silver, Y12 Men’s Epee   Noe […]