Tidewater Fencing Club coaches were invited to come share our awesome sport on WKTR 3’s Coast Live morning show. Coaches Tim Mulligan & Meredith Powers … Read more
WTKR Channel 3 dropped by the club to learn more about our sport after Team USA’s fencers came home form the Paris 2024 Olympics with two gold medals and a bronze medal.
They did a fantastic write-up and video, go check out the whole thing!
https://www.wtkr.com/sports/fencing-teaches-students-physical-chess-required-for-unique-sport
At the 2023 FIE Veteran Fencing World Championships, James Newsome, TFC coach, played a crucial role in leading Team USA to victory in the Veteran Men’s Epee team event. Alongside teammates Joe Deucher, Walt Dragonetti, Fred Frank, Jon Normile, and Charlie Schneider, Newsome helped secure Team USA’s fourth world championship in the event, continuing the team’s dominance with wins in 2017, 2018, 2019, and now 2023 after a brief hiatus in 2022 when Italy took the title.
For Newsome, this victory marked his first World Championship title. He reflected on the significance of this moment and the camaraderie that developed among the team members throughout their journey.
“The biggest thing for me is you get great friendships,” Newsome shared. “We come from different backgrounds. Some of us have had a lot of coaching, some of us have had no coaching. But we all find a way to be competitive and to come out. Sometimes that means traveling. Sometimes it means just working at home alone by yourself to hone your skills and keep going. And that’s what makes a team like this great.”
With this gold medal, James Newsome has not only cemented his place in the fencing world but has also brought pride to Tidewater Fencing Club’s first International medal, and first World Championship medal.
USA Fencing sent out a notification earlier today that all clubs should cancel all activities until at least April 6th, and to enforce that they … Read more
Preregistration is now open for the fall youth tournament! This is an informal and fun unsanctioned tournament – it’ll be run as a standard tournament … Read more
It’s time for our 2018 Annual Club Meeting and Summer Party! We’ll be electing Officers, discussing the new season, and firing up the grill for … Read more
It’s that time again! Just a friendly reminder to all of our current club members that the 2018-19 fencing season starts August 1st. In order to fulfill insurance requirements, all of our students and club members are required to be current members of USA Fencing. A non-competitive USA Fencing membership is $10 per fencer, per season (seasons run August through July)
Please renew your USA Fencing memberships before then, or you won’t be able to fence!
Thanks!
Tidewater Fencing Cub had a great showing in St. Louis for this year’s Summer National Championships!
Great job, everyone!
