News

Two of our fencers were in recent tournaments and picked up medals.

On January 26th, MICHEAL MORRISON won a Bronze Medal in the Y12 Mixed Saber at the January Joust, sponsored by the En Garde Fencing Club in Ocala.

On January 31st, WILLIAM BOWDEN won a Bronze Medal in the Senior Mixed Epee at the Laid Back Thursday Night Epee Thing, held at the College Park Community Center in Orlando.

Fencers from the FFA will be competing on February 9th at the 53rd Annual Green Gator tournament which will be held at the University of Florida.  Good luck to all of our fencers. 

Fencers from the Florida Fencing Academy participated in the Papa Ryan's Birthday Bash Tournament in Tampa at the University of South Florida campus on Saturday, January 19th.

Congratulations to 15-year-old WILLIAM BOWDEN who won the Gold Medal in the C & Under Epee event.  He finished first in a field of 31 fencers and obtained his D rating.    Additionally, William also won the Bronze Medal in both the Senior Mixed Saber and the D & Under Saber events. 

Congrats to EVIN SAMY who won the Gold Medal in C & Under Saber and a Bronze Medal in the Senior Mixed Saber.  

Congrats also to NOAH HELTON who won the Bronze Medal in Senior Mixed Foil in a field of 28 fencers.

Other Academy fencers there included ROBERT WAGMAN who finished 6th in the C & Under Epee, VISHNU GAUTAM  who placed 9th in C & Under Foil and in the top half of the field in the Senior Mixed Foil, and Aggie Wagman who competed in the C & Under Senior Mixed Epee.

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Some of our fencers participated in the Jax Jab Tournament held in Jacksonville on January 12th.  ROBERT WAGMAN (father of Aggie Wagman) just won the Silver Medal for D and Under Epee (and obtained his E Rating), NOAH HELTON won a Bronze Medal in the Senior Mixed Foil competition and VISHNU GAUTAM won the Bronze Medal in the D and Under Foil.   Also, finishing in the top 10 in their events were WILLIAM BOWDEN and THOMAS DUPREE.  And in his first tournament in many years, NICKOLAY MAVRODIEV fenced Epee very well, placing 11th.

Now is a great time to join the Academy.  We have seen an increase in memberships here in the new year.  Some of our students are just learning the fundamentals while our more advanced students are competing in competitions throughout the state.  

We look forward to seeing your student at the Academy.  Good luck to our fencers who will be participating in the tournament in Tampa at the University of South Florida on Saturday, January 19th.

This new site is still under construction but a lot of functionality is in place.  We are tinkering with the look of the site and we will soon be setting up the financial pieces on the back end so that payments can be made online.  Many of our photos are low resolution and will be replaced with higher resolution pictures.

If you have ideas for what you would like to see on the Academy's website, feel free to make those suggestions to Coach Harper.

As the Florida Fencing Academy pursues its goals of growth and reaching out to more people in our community, we have obtained a new database which is driving this website!  

Along with this database, we are defining our membership levels.  These levels currently exist.  Current regular attendees may continue from now to August 2019 with your existing payment schedule or you have the option to pay the annual fee and enjoy the lower monthly fee.

This new database will allow us to improve our communications with our members and contacts and will give you a portal where you can pay your fees (or donations, thank you very much) online.

We hope that this will serve our current members better and enable us to attract new members.