The second Summer Series of tournaments concluded on Saturday 9/9, in a fantastic warmup for the next day's San Diego Cup Open. 

Our Summer Series of tournaments is a set of 4 tournaments held through the summer designed to give new fencers the opportunity to participate in tournaments and experienced fencers a chance to put their latest moves to the test in a competitive atmosphere. And, as always, there was plenty of food for our hungry fencers!

This year saw slightly lower attendance, but maintained a healthy level of competition. We had fencers from several different clubs attend, as well as a couple of nationally ranked fencers. In addition, we had several fencers attend their first tournament. All competed, all practiced, and all had a great time. 

Encinitas Fencing Academy maintained a consistent presence on the podium, and brought home a majority of the available awards. In the Men's category, Coach David "Lucky" Polakoski and Doug Taylor took first and second places overall, sharing the podium with Alex Soderberg of Team Touché who came in third. For the Women's, Allison ChanEowyn Acres, and Ilyssa Freiburger placed first, second, and third respectively. Lastly, Roark Harris took home the Red Lantern award placing fifth place in the Men's Category. 

Thanks to all who participated, and we look forward to an excellent season from all!

 

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2nd Annual Summer Series Men's Point  List
Rank Fencer Points For Rank Summer Series #1 Summer Series #2 Summer Series #3 Summer Series #4
Polakoski, David : ENC  34 6 (5th) 13 (3rd) 8 (1st) 7 (1st)
Taylor, Doug : ENC  31 10 (1st) 9 (7th) 7 (2nd) 5 (3rd)
Soderberg, Alex : TTFC  28 8 (3rd) 14 (2nd)   6 (2nd)
Wei, Zikun : NOFEAR  19 9 (2nd) 10 (6th)    
Harris, Roark : ENC  18 4 (7th) 3 (13th) 6 (3rd) 5 (3rd)
Daroian, Emon : SWORDS  15   15 (1st)    
7T  Chan, Jonathan : ENC  13 5 (6th) 6 (10th) 2 (7th)  
7T  Shifron, Daniel : TTFC  13   13 (3rd)    
Khayat, Ziad : EBFG  11   11 (5th)    
10T  Wilkens, Zach : SOUTHCST  8   8 (8th)    
10T  Alexander, Charles  : NOFEAR  8 8 (3rd)      
10T  Hu, Yingli : UNAT  8 2 (9th) 5 (11th) 1 (8th)  
13T   Olson, Mark : UNAT  7 3 (8th) 4 (12th)    
13T  Davis, Neil : CABRILLO  7   7 (9th)    
15  Robson, Sam : ENC  6     6 (3rd)  
16T  Weisman, Ryan : ENC  2       2 (6th)
16T  Lee, Joseph : ENC  2   2 (14th)    
18  Choi, Aslan : ENC  1 1 (10th)      

 

2nd Annual Summer Series Women's Point  List
Rank Fencer Points For Rank Summer Series #1 Summer Series #2 Summer Series #3 Summer Series #4
Chan, Allison : ENC  5     4 (5th) 1 (7th)
Freiburger, Ilyssa : ENC  4   1 (15th) 3 (6th)  
Acres, Eowyn : ENC  3       3 (5th)