East Bay Fencers Gym » Women’s Épée https://eastbayfencers.com Integrity, Excellence, Honor Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:19:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 January NAC in Kansas City, MO Team EBFG Bronze Medal! https://eastbayfencers.com/january-nac-in-kansas-city-mo-team-ebfg-bronze-medal https://eastbayfencers.com/january-nac-in-kansas-city-mo-team-ebfg-bronze-medal#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:55:49 +0000 Julia http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=1537 Continue Reading]]> Congratulations to East Bay Fencers who competed at the January NAC in Kansas City, MO from January 3-6, 2025!!! EBFG had an awesome showing at this NAC! Congratulations to our Vet Men’s Epee Teams. EBFG had two teams! Congrats to EBFG Team 2 Paul Chandler, Justin Hunter, Keith Lichten, and Matt Maychrowitz for finishing 3rd! Congrats to EBFG Team 1 Joel Kaufman, Gerard Downey, Brett Williams , and Jonathan Bartlet for finishing 9th!

EBFG had an awesome showing at this NAC! EBFG Fencers had awesome results across Vet Epee Events! Congrats to Kyle Yamasaki for finishing 6th and Paul Chandler for finishing 14th in Vet 40 Men’s Epee! Congrats to Keith Lichten for finishing 6th, Justin Hunter for finishing 23rd! And Matt Maychrowitz for finishing 29th  in Vet 50 Men’s Epee! Congrats to Mike Lipton for finishing 16th! And Gerard for finishing 22nd in Vet 60 Men’s Epee! Congrats to Gerard Downey for finishing 31st in Vet Men’s Epee!

We also want to highlight our Women’s Epee Fencers! Congratulations to Julia Aires, Matea Chiou-Williams, and Sophia Habek for travel and participating in Cadet WE and Div1 WE!  Sophia was the youngest participant in Div1 WE.

Great Job Everyone!!

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]]> https://eastbayfencers.com/january-nac-in-kansas-city-mo-team-ebfg-bronze-medal/feed 0 2024 Summer Nationals three medals and a National Championship Title!!! https://eastbayfencers.com/2024-summer-nationals-three-medals-and-a-national-championship-title https://eastbayfencers.com/2024-summer-nationals-three-medals-and-a-national-championship-title#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2024 01:29:16 +0000 Julia http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=1501 Continue Reading]]>
Congratulations to all East Bay Fencers Gym fencers who competed at the 2024 Summer USA Fencing National Championships & July Challenge in Columbus Ohio! EBFG fencers had great results this year in many different events! Congratulations to everyone who participated in team events: Senior Women’s Team Epee and Vet Men’s Team Epee! Vet Men’s Team Epee finished 14th!! Congrats!
EBFG fencers earned three medals and a National Championship Title this Year!!!
Congratulations to Sophia Habek for Winning Gold in Y12 Women’s Epee! Sophia is now a Two-Time National Champion and the youngest fencer on the East Bay Fencers Gym Team!!! Sophia won Y10 last year and Y12 this year! Sophia has trained very hard throughout the entire season and she has achieved amazing results! Sophia fenced very well in multiple difficult DEs! Sophia beat very strong A-rated fencers and managed to win! Sophia won every single bout she fenced in the Y12 event! Sophia also earned her B24 rating! Big congrats to Sophia and her coach Abdul!
Gold Medalists and National Champion!
Sophia Habek in Y12 Women’s Epee!
Congrats to Sophia for winning Gold!
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Top 8 Medalists!
Congratulations to Barry Leonardini for finishing 5th in Vet 80 Men’s Epee!
Congratulations to Matt Maychrowitz for finishing 7th in Vet 50 Men’s Epee!
Top 32 Results
Congratulations to Sophia Habek for finishing 30th in Y14 Women’s Epee!
Congratulations to Alex Rood for finishing 21st in Vet 50 Men’s Epee!
Congratulations to Charles Hargrove for finishing 30th in Vet 50 Epee!
Congratulations to Barry Leonardini for finishing 25th in Vet 70 Men’s Epee!
Top 64 Results
Congratulations to Reese Dwiggins for finishing 60th for Y14 Women’s Epee!
Congratulations to Grayson Nguyen for finishing 39th in Div III Men’s Epee!
Congratulations to Sarah Hepler for finishing 41st in Div1A Women’s Epee!
Congratulations to Brett Williams for finishing 40th in Vet 50 Men’s Epee!
Congratulations to Ryan Sloan for finishing 46th in Vet 40 Men’s Epee!
Congratulations to Gerald Downey for finishing 37th in Vet 60 Men’s Epee!
]]> https://eastbayfencers.com/2024-summer-nationals-three-medals-and-a-national-championship-title/feed 0 AFM Super Regional 3 Gold and 2 Bronze medals !! https://eastbayfencers.com/afm-super-regional-sycrjccroc-d1avet-3-gold-and-2-bronze-medals https://eastbayfencers.com/afm-super-regional-sycrjccroc-d1avet-3-gold-and-2-bronze-medals#comments Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:56:48 +0000 Julia http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=1429 Continue Reading]]> AFM Super Regional SYC/RJCC/ROC (D1A/VET)

Santa Clara, CA October 6-8, 2023

Congratulations to all EBFG fencers who trained hard, participate, and won medals.

GREAT RESULTS!!!

Sophia Habek Gold medal in Cadet Women’s Épée and Gold medal in Y-12 Women’s Épée

Veteran Men’s Épée Michael Lipton Gold medal,

Joel Kaufman Bronze medal, Steve Chen 6th place

Sarah Hepler Bronze medal in Div I-A Women’s Épée

Kyle Yamasaki 6th in Div I-A Men’s Épée

Julia Aires 8th place Junior Women’s Épée

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]]> https://eastbayfencers.com/afm-super-regional-sycrjccroc-d1avet-3-gold-and-2-bronze-medals/feed 0 Summer Nationals 2023 Gold and Bronze!! https://eastbayfencers.com/summer-nationals-2023-gold-and-bronze https://eastbayfencers.com/summer-nationals-2023-gold-and-bronze#comments Tue, 18 Jul 2023 22:47:39 +0000 Julia http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=1388 Continue Reading]]> East Bay Fencers Gym had a great showing at this year’s summer nationals in Phoenix.

19 East Bay Fencers fenced in 39 events at the Nationals and brought home 4 Medals!

Our youngest Sophia Habek became the 2023 National Champion in Y-10 Women’s Epee!

But Sophia was not the only East Bay Fencer with a visit to the podium, Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu won a bronze medal in Vet-50 Men’s Epee, Barry Leonardini  finished 5th in Vet-80 Men’s and Allen Graham finished 8th in Vet-40 Men’s Epee.

Congratulations to all EBFG fencers who trained hard for this year’s nationals. What a great ending to an incredible 2022-23 season!

(see top finishers and a list of all EBFG fencers who participated below images)

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Y-10 Women’s Épée

1 Sophia Habek GOLD MEDAL and NATIONAL CHAMPION

 

Y-12 Women’s Épée

14 Sophia Habek (Top 16) Earn new rating E

56 Matea Chiou-Williams (Top 64)

 

Y-14 Women’s Épée

62 Julia Aires (Top 64)

 

Div I-A Women’s Épée

32 Sarah Hepler (Top 32)

 

Div I-A Men’s Épée

36 Kyle Yamasaki (Top 64)

 

Div II Women’s Épée

18 Sarah Hepler (Top 32)

 

Div II Men’s Épée

61 Steve Chen (Top 64)

 

Div III Men’s Épée

29 Karan Gupta (Top 32)

 

Vet-40 Men’s Épée

8 Allen Graham (Top 8)

29 Ryan Sloan (Top 32)

 

Vet-50 Men’s Épée

3 Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu BRONZE MEDAL

22 Andy Davis (Top 32)

24 Steve Chen (Top 32)

29 Matt Maychrowitz (Top 32)

34 Charles Hargrove (Top 64)

 

Vet-60 Men’s Épée

31 Gerard Downey (Top 32)

39 David Beittel (Top 64)

 

Vet-70 Men’s Épée

9 Solomon Weingarten (Top 16)

16 Barry Leonardini (Top 16)

 

Vet-80 Men’s Épée

5 Barry Leonardini (Top 8)

 

Veteran Team Men’s Épée

7th place (Top 8)

Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu, Allen Graham, Charles Hargrove, Matt Maychrowitz

19th place (Top 32)

Henry Chang, Andy Davis, Gerard Downey

23rd place (Top 32)

Steven Chen, Ryan Sloan, Solomon Weingarten, David Beittel

 

 

 

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February 3-6, 2023

Congratulations

Sophia Habek for winning the Gold medal in Youth 10 Women’s Epee

and make top 16 in Y12 and Y14 Women’s Epee

Matea Williams  to make top 16 in Y14 Women’s Epee and 19 place in Y12 Women’s Epee

Lucy De Neale Y12 Women’s Epee 22 place and Y14 Women’s Epee 30 place

Julia Aires Y14 Women’s Epee 21 place

 

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Santa Clara, CA November 4-6, 2022

Congratulations to all EBFG fencers who trained hard, participate, and won medals.

GREAT RESULTS!!!

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Y-10 Women’s Épée

Gold medal

Sophia Habek

 

Y-12 Women’s Épée

Sophia Habek and Matea  Chiou-Williams (top 32)

 

Junior Women’s Epee

Brockmann Brooke (top 32)

 

Junior Men’s Epee

Lio He (top 32)

 

Cadet Men’s Epee

Lio He (top 16)

 

Div I-A Women’s Épée

Chung Kim (top 16)

 

Div I-A Men’s Épée

Allen Graham (top 32)

 

Vet Women’s Épée

Lynch Kristin (top 8)

 

Vet Men’s Épée

Bronze Medal

Hargrove Charles

Gerard Downey

 

Matt Maychrowitz (top 8)

Lipton Michael (top 32)

GREAT RESULTS!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]> https://eastbayfencers.com/afm-super-regional-sycrjccroc-d1avet/feed 0 Congratulations to EBFG Youth Fencers RYC Fremont, CA https://eastbayfencers.com/congratulations-to-ebfg-youth-fencers-ryc-fremont-ca https://eastbayfencers.com/congratulations-to-ebfg-youth-fencers-ryc-fremont-ca#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:05:21 +0000 Julia http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=1334 RYC Fremont, CA
September 30-October2, 2022

Congratulations to
Sophia Habek for winning the Gold medal in Youth 10 Women’s Epee

Sophia Habek  and Matea Williams
to make top 8 in Y12 Women’s Epee

Julia Aires to make top 8 in Y14 Women’s Epee

GREAT RESULTS!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

]]> https://eastbayfencers.com/congratulations-to-ebfg-youth-fencers-ryc-fremont-ca/feed 0 Bay Cup @ EBFG WE & CHXE Results https://eastbayfencers.com/bay-cup-ebfg-we-chxe-results https://eastbayfencers.com/bay-cup-ebfg-we-chxe-results#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:06:48 +0000 admin http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=535 Continue Reading]]> Congratulations to EBFG fencers for an amazing weekend at home in Oakland! EBFG took gold in both of this weekend’s Bay Cup Epee events.

Katarzyna Trzopek fought a tough final against Hong Kong fencer Man Wai Kong, winning 12-11 to take home the gold medal in the Senior Women’s Épée event . Martina Baccari took home the bronze medal and also earned her C rating! Congratulations to the women’s team for their outstanding results.

EBFG fencers dominated the Senior C and Higher Épée event, sweeping 7 out of the top 8 places. The all East Bay podium included Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu (1st Place), Andrew Brewer (2nd Place), Kyle Yamasaki (3rd), Elani Ferri (3rd). Katarzyna Trzopek finished 5th, Orestis Herodotou finished 6th and Kevin Esnault finished 8th. An amazing victory at home! Thanks for all the hard work!

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EBFG started off this year’s NAC season strong with several top place finishes including a gold medal at this season’s first NAC in St. Louis, MO.

A huge congratulations to Rob Rhea for his first place medal in DIV1 Men’s Épée! Rob defeated Adam Rodney of the Peter Westbrook Foundation 15-13 to capture the gold medal. Rob’s previous top place finish was silver against London Olympian Seth Kelsey.

Camille Esnault took home the bronze medal in the DIV2 Women’s Épée event, another great finish after her podium finish at last season’s summer nationals.  Camille’s brother Kevin Esnault also made a strong run finishing 47th in DIV1 Men’s Épée.

Matthias Philippine also had an outstanding competition and finished 5th in the Cadet Men’s Épée event.

Congrats to all EBFG fencers who travelled to St. Louis last weekend and we look forward to more great results this season!

 

]]> https://eastbayfencers.com/october-2012-nac-results/feed 0 Bay Cup ’12-’13 Season Results Update https://eastbayfencers.com/bay-cup-12-13-season-results-update https://eastbayfencers.com/bay-cup-12-13-season-results-update#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:04:17 +0000 admin http://eastbayfencers.com/?p=522 Continue Reading]]> The 2012-2013 Bay Cup Season is here and EBFG fencers are already scoring top finishes! Congrats and thanks for all the hard work! Here’s an update of results from this season:

Bay Cup @ GPS: WE1
Camille Esnault – 2nd Place

Bay Cup @ HALB: CLXE1
Keith Lichten – 1st
Thibault Philippine – 2nd
Kyle Yamasaki – 3rd
Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu – 5th
Paul Chandler – 7th
Todd Russell – 8th

Bay Cup @ HALB: CLXE1
Steven Fialkowski – 3rd
Patrick Wang – 5th
Andrew Davis – 8th

Bay Cup @ TFC:  JME1
Thibault Philippine – 1st
Matthias Philippine – 2nd
Kevin Esnault – 3rd

Bay Cup @ TFC:  CHXE2
Mehmet Tepedelenlioglu – 1st
Todd Russell – 3rd
Kyle Yamasaki – 3rd
Keith Lichten – 5th
Paul Chandler – 6th
Matthias Philippine – 7th

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