Snow closing policy

So, winter’s arrived. Our policy is that, when the Santa Fe Public Schools are closed, we are closed for our evening classes.

You can feel free to arrange bouting, or schedule lessons with Jorge, but please don’t make any dangerous trips.

We’ll be doing that for upcoming holidays as well. Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 28 — no evening class, but the club is open for bouting if fencers want to organize it.

And, again, same for the weeks of December 23–January 3, there will be no evening classes those weeks, but fencers are welcome to organize bouting and to schedule lessons with Coach Jorge as he is available.

Congratulations to fencers in Durango

Freya took first in the E & Under Senior Mixed Epee, and Jack took fifth, Freya took 11th and Don took 15th in Senior Mixed Epee last weekend in Durango. Congratulations to our fencers who made the trip!

J.O. Qualifier if there’s interest

We need to have a Junior Olympic qualifier — and we need to know who in our club is interested in going. It will be held in Charlotte, NC on February 14–17, This will include Junior and Cadet events in all three weapons, for boys and girls separately. Info is here: https://www.usafencing.org/2025juniorolympics

You will have to submit your entry by December 18 to avoid triple fees. You also need to qualify, either through points gained in NAC or RYC/RJCC events, or through our Division Qualifier.

Only fencers who definitely plan on going to J.O.s should enter the Division Qualifier so they don't knock out another fencer who wants to go. We can qualify three in each event. If three or less enter, they all qualify. We will only be running epee events. Anyone interested in foil or saber should email or talk to Jack directly.

Right now, we’re planning on holding the Qualifier alongside the Rudolph Rumble event on December 7 (see below), since there will likely only be a few Qualifier entrants. If there is a lot of interest, we would move the Qualifier to the following week, December 14.

Register for November and December tournaments

Santa Fe Turkey Tussle II
Saturday, November 9
» Register at AskFRED
» Register at GoMotion:
 Open Mixed Epee at 10:00
 D & Under (Div 3) Mixed Epee at 1:00
 Y14 Mixed Epee at 1:00

Santa Fe Rudolph Rumble IV
Saturday, December 7
» Register at AskFRED
» Register at GoMotion:
 Open Mixed Epee at 10:00
 D & Under (Div 3) Mixed Epee at 1:00
 Y14 Mixed Epee at 1:00

There are two parts to registering for an NMFF tournament, the AskFRED registration gives us our count and participant information, prepaying at GoMotion helps speed up the check-in; we will also accept registration fees at the event, but prepaying is a big help.