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Our youngest fencers have kicked off the season at the Fairfax Challenge Regional Youth Circuit (RYC) and Regional Cadet Circuit (RCC) in Baltimore this weekend! We salute all our fencers for getting in the game and offer a special salute to those who earned top spots. Y8 Mixed Epee – 1st Aarav Chawla (DCFC) Y8 […]

DC Fencers Club will be closed on Monday, September 4 for the Labor Day Holiday.  We will reopen on Tuesday, September 5. Please note that intermediate classes begin Saturday, September 9, and beginner classes start Monday, October 2.  Visit the DCFC classes page for schedules and online registration. Enjoy your holiday weekend!

Pop the cork, the season has begun! Thanks to all who joined us for the first Champagne Challenge of the season, and a special salute to DCFC fencers who took top spots, including Joe Deucher (silver), Avo Reid (fifth place), and Bryan Walther (eighth place).  Full results at this link. The next Champagne Challenge takes […]

The DC Fencers Club community wishes the very best to Coach Ilya V. Lobanenkov, as he takes on the full-time position of head coach at Loudoun International Fencing Club (LIFC) in Ashburn, Virginia, in the 2017-18 season. Ilya has served as a DCFC coach for 10 years. He started as a part-time coach in 2007 […]

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Youth 10 & 12 Mixed Epee and Sabre event at DCFC on Sunday, June 11.  We applaud the families who are supporting our very youngest competitors, and we offer a special salute to the young fencers who took top spots. Y10 Mixed Epee Logan Chambliss, gold Aidan […]

While Wonder Woman was battling evil on the big screen this weekend, her fellow women warriors gathered to fight for glory and honor at the fourteenth annual Amazon Open, held Sunday, June 4 at DC Fencers Club. Competitors gathered from as far as Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to compete in events in epee […]

Battle the Bullies Youth Tournament was a great success. More than 50 young competitors from regional clubs took part in this Y10/Y12/Y14 event on Sunday, May 21. The event was a fundraiser for STOMP Out Bullying, an organization which focuses on reducing and preventing all forms of bullying. For many of these young fencers, this was […]

Please join us at DCFC for this Y10 & Y12 Mixed Epee and Mixed Sabre tournament. Registration closes at 10 AM for Y10 & Y12 Epee and 1:00 PM for Y10 & Y12 Sabre. Entry to each event is $40. Register on askfred.net. See you there!

On May 21, DC Fencers Club hosts Battle the Bullies, a tournament featuring Epee Y10, Y12, and Y14 events. The event is a fundraiser for STOMP Out Bullying, which focuses on reducing and preventing all forms of bullying.  The organization teaches effective responses to bullying and educates children and teens how to respond in school […]

April brought showers of gold, silver, and bronze for DCFC fencers competing at the April Division I/Wheelchair Championships and North American Cup in Baltimore, Maryland, April 21-24, 2017. Lisa Dobloug took gold in Vet 70 Women’s Epee, a repeat of her April 2016 NAC performance. Valerie Asher won gold in Vet 50 Women’s Epee, and […]