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Engaging parents is often an important step in a child's long-term involvement with a sport. Fencing is a sport that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, who can participate together within our dedicated community clubs. This allows opportunities for parents to engage in our sport alongside their children, which has huge social and familial benefits. 

Congratulations to West Lothian Fencing Club, who have achieved Scottish Fencing Swordmark "Basic" status!

Congratulations to Sancroft Blades, who have achieved Scottish Fencing Swordmark "Basic" status!

For more information on Sancroft Blades, please click here. Alternatively, you can contact the club on their Facebook page.

SYC ENTRIES EXTENDED TO WED 30 6PM

SYC check in times,

Saturday
U20 Sabre & U20 Epee               Check in 1015-10:30 Start 10:30
U13 Sabre & U13 Epee               Check in 11:45-12 Start 12:00
U15 Sabre                                 Check in 13:15-13:30 Start 13:30

Scottish fencing is delighted to congratulate the young Scots who have won places in the Great Britain teams for the European Cadet and Junior Championships, and to thank the coaches and families who have helped them do so.  The following have been selected to compete in Foggia in Italy, between 21 February and 3 March:

Cadets.

Mens Epee - Isaac McKerr
Womens Epee - Rachael Lever
Mens Sabre - Rory McLellan, Sam Freeman
Womens Sabre - Elsie Llewellyn

There are four candidates for the three Board vacancies so an election will be held.  The qualifying date for eligibility to vote will be 5 February.  So if you want to vote make sure your membership is paid up. (All categories of members aged over 16 can vote except the free three-month 'Introduction to Fencing').  

Congratulations to the following fencers for their selection to represent Scotland at the 2019 Challenge Wratislavia tournament in March.

U15s Boys Foil

Jamie Cook

Nye Ulferis Kilpatrick

U13s Boys Foil

Callum Penman

David Kelly

Joseph Cox

U15s Girls Foil:

Ellen Buckley

Milenka Zadora

U13s Girls Foil:

Zoe Wagstaff

Ann-Emma Hu

Caroline Schmautz

U15s Boys Epee

Callum McGhee

Archie Tyler

Last year running four six-weapon events across one weekend was a considerable effort and only just manageable. Any oversubscription of entries for example or equipment failures could have made the event run late. This prompted the events director to consider how to reduce the overall number of events. 

Given we have an extremely busy weekend Scotland-wide for fencing on February 2nd/3^rd and athletes keen to participate at more than one event in more than one location it is critical for us to maintain a lean championships.

Scottish Fencing uses members' e-mail addresses for various purposes including team selection, information about grant applications, and importantly at the moment, the election of directors.

Would all members please make sure that the e-mail address listed on the Sport80 website is current and refers to an account which is checked routinely.  Otherwise, important messages may be delayed or not received at all.

The latest and final U13 rankings for Challenge Wratislavia are published below.

Full details on selection for CW were published earlier in the year. As a reminder this is what was set as criteria for selection: http://scottish-fencing.co.uk/fencers/2018/06/01/2019-challenge-wratislavia-outcome-feedback

For U15 fencers you can check the latest British Fencing cadet rankings here