Russo Makes SI's "Faces in the Crowd"

 

Wayne Valley's Jessica Russo, NJISAA 2008 Girls' Sabre State Champion, is featured in the April 14th issue of Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" section. 

 

NJIFA All-State Teams Posted

 

The NJIFA All-State Teams have been posted on the NJIFA Results Page.  Scroll down a little and click on the link.

 

NJSIAA Boys' Team Semi-Final on Video

 

Video of all 27 bouts of the NJSIAA/Bollinger Boys' State Team Championships semi-finals between Columbia and Millburn are available online, courtesy of FoilFanatic.

 

NJSIAA Boys' Squad State Championships Postponed

 

The NJSIAA Boys' Squad State Championships have been postponed until Saturday, March 1, at the same location and check-in time.  See the Schedule Page.  The Girls' Squad States will be contested as scheduled on Sunday, February 24.

 

Problem with Coaching Staff Page

 

If the coaching staff page is not available on your computer, first try refreshing the page.  If that doesn't work, download the following source file: www.njifa.org/coachesstaff/beginners3.dat.  Open the downloaded file from within Microsoft Word.  A big thank you to Gail Kedoin for pointing out the problem. 

 

NJ High School Fencers in Atlanta Division I NAC

 

Division 1 Men's Epee results from Atlanta, 259 entries: 6th, Eric Gurnowski from Hackettstown; 77th, Alex Powell from Montclair HS; 86th, Alen Hadzic from Montclair; 104th, Andrew Bostick from Bernards; 186th, Nat DeLucia from Montgomery; 213th, Nick Kusckhe from Randolph; 226th, Salim Short from Mendham.

 

Division 1 Men's Foil results from Atlanta, which saw 83 A's, 78 B's, 31 C's compete: 10th, Alex Mills from Millburn; 43rd, Brendan Cusack from North Hunterdon; 57th, Brian Kaneshige from Columbia; 109th, Max McDermott from North Hunterdon; 142nd, Dan Levine from Morris Hills; 154th, Zane Grodman from Newark Academy; 184th, Tim Pak from Northern Highlands.

 

Results Page Updated

 

Links to the final standings from the Santelli Girls' and Cetrulo Boys' Relay Championships are posted on the NJIFA Results Page.

 

Initial Squad Seedings for Santelli and Cetrulo Relay Championships

 

With registration for the Santelli Girls' and Cetrulo Boys' Relay Championships closed, please download the initial squad seeding chart.

 

Santelli-Cetrulo Entry and Seeding Forms

 

The deadline for submission of the NJIFA Santelli Girls' and Cetrulo Boy's Relay Tournament entry forms and seeding forms is Wednesday, January 2, 2008.  If you've submitted your forms, please see this chart to find out if we've received them.  Here's a description of the pool-pool format to be used this year, rather than the pool-DE format used the past few seasons.

 

NJSIAA Expands Individual Events at Districts and States

Based on recommendations of the NJIFA Competition Committee, the NJSIAA has announced the following changes expanding the individual events at both the district and state championships.  Promotions at the District Championships from the three strips to the District Individual Finals in each of the six squad events will be as follows,

 

A-pool qualifies 5 fencers; B-pool qualifies 3 fencers; C-pool qualifies 1 fencer

 

The individual district finals will, therefore, be a single pool of nine fencers, most likely, fenced on two strips.  Five of the nine finalists will qualify from each of the four districts to the state individual championships.  Four competitors will qualify from the Independent fencers’ pool in each weapon-gender.

 

Reflecting the changes above, a total of 24 fencers will qualify to the State Individual Championships, which will begin with four pools of six fencers qualifying 16 to the semi-finals.  The semis will be two pools of eight fencers with eight qualifying to final round-robin pool.

 

New Method to Report Dual Meet Scores

Dorf Sports, which handles all high school sports reporting for the Star-Ledger of Newark, has a new method to report dual meet scores.  Each team's score reporter should input the information into www.njschoolsports.com.  Your school's contact should e-mail Jeff Karn or call 800-285-1960 to obtain your school's username and password.

 

Hungarian Fencing Master to Run Coaches' Clinic at Atlantic FA

For the first time, Hungarian Sabre Fencing Master Peter Frohlich will conduct a one day coaching seminar in the US. The Hungarian school of sabre fencing is well known all over the world.  Mr. Frohlich has a long standing relationship coaching the British National Team.  He will be conducting his coaching seminar at the Atlantic Fencing Academy in East Brunswick on Sunday, December 30.  Download the flyer and for more info contact Agota Balot.

 

HS Fencing Officials Association Looking for Referees

Our sister organization, the NJ Interscholastic Fencing Officials Association, is looking for NJ HS referees to join their organization.  All referees at high school dual meets, NJIFA tournaments and NJSIAA district and state tournaments will eventually have to join the organization.  Referees, please download the membership form, complete it and send it to Peter Dorfman, NJIFOA membership chair.

 

Updates to the 2007-08 Season Schedule

The NJSIAA and NJIFA announced changes to the existing NJ high school fencing schedule.  The NJIFA announced the venue for the January 5, Santelli Girls' Relays is Gill St. Bernards' School, Peapack-Gladstone.  In addition, the 2nd round of that event and the Cetrulo Relays will switch to a pool format.  See the details on the resources page.  The NJSIAA announced because of when spring break falls at Rider University, the State Individual Finals will be held on Saturday, March 15.  This lengthens the fencing season one week.  

 

Olympic Champion to Speak Twice

Sweden's Johan Harmenberg, 1977 World Individual and Team Epee Champion and 1980 Olympic Individual Gold Medalist, will discuss his new book, Epee 2.0, The Birth of the New Fencing Paradigm, at two book-signings in northern NJ.  Mr. Harmenberg is a member of the management team for Swedish fencing and has just returned from the World Championships in St. Petersburg.

 

His thesis is that it’s possible to neutralize superior technique and achieve victory by avoiding your opponent’s strengths and forcing him to deal with yours.  This concept has been adopted all over the world, but never explained systematically until now.  The talk will explain how and why, plus recount Mr. Harmenberg’s improbable rise from fencing “failure” to the pinnacle of success.

The talks will be free of charge and copies of his new book will be available for purchase.  One will be held on Tuesday, October 23, 2007, from 7,30 pm to 8,45 pm, at Cobra Fencing Club,