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THE FENCING ACADEMY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS
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Las Vegas Fencing Academy of Nevada - Come Fence With Us!
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U.S. National Champions Kian Ameli (2006 Y14 Epee, 2006 Cadet Epee and 2007 Cadet Epee) and Nik-Nik (2006 Y12 Epee) with their coach Maitre Yves Auriol (2006 and 2007 U.S.Fencing Association Coach's medals)
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2006 DAWSON CHALLENGE
Our FAN youth fencers did a terrific job at the 2006 Dawson Challenge! We are proud of all of our youth fencers who competed at this prestigious RYC event: Kian Ameli, Nik-Nik Ameli, Addison Bogardus, Andrea Dilibero, Cassandra Dilibero, Alexandra Keft, Ashley Kim, Jordan Kozmary, Christy Lyons, Andre Matter, Christopher Napolitano, Narayan Pathi, Georgia Ranes, Dakota Root, Thomas Schumacher, Danni Shanel, Sarah Tabat and Stephan Tisminezky.
Special congratulations to our many medalists: Kian Ameli (1st Place in U20 Junior Men's Epee), Nik-Nik Ameli (1st Place in Y14 Women's Foil, Y14 Women's Epee and U20 Junior Women's Foil, also 3rd place in U20 Junior Women's Epee), Andrea Dilibero (1st Place in Y10 Women's Epee and 3rd place in Y10 Women's Foil), Cassandra Dilibero (1st Place in Y10 Women's Foil and 3rd place in Y10 Women's Epee), Alexandra Keft (3rd place in Y12 Women's Epee), Ashley Kim (3rd place in Y12 Women's Foil), Narayan Pathi (3rd Place in U20 Junior Men's Epee), and Stephan Tisminezky (3rd Place in Y12 Men's Sabre).
Our youth fencers are off to a great start this season!
Special thanks to all of the FAN parents and friends who volunteered at this FAN-sponsored tournament, and to the Alexander Dawson School at Rainbow Mountain for providing a beautiful venue for this event.
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FAN 2005-2006 SEASON WRAP-UP
All in all, FAN fencers and teams had an absolutely exceptional 2005-2006 fencing season. The season’s major highlights are the multiple state, regional and national championships won by FAN fencers during our club’s first full season as a competition club:
2006 Nevada State Champion Men’s Epee
2006 Nevada State Champion Men’s Sabre
2006 Nevada State Champion Women’s Foil
2006 Nevada State Champion Women’s Epee
2006 Nevada State Champions Team Men’s Epee
2006 Nevada State Champions Team Men's Foil
2006 Nevada State Champions Team Women’s Epee
2006 Nevada State Champions Team Women's Foil
2006 Nevada State Champions Team Women’s Sabre
2006 Pacific Coast Sectional Champion - Women’s Foil
2006 Pacific Coast Sectional Champions - Team Men’s Epee
2006 Junior Pacific Coast Sectional Champion - Youth 14 Men's Epee
2006 National Champion - Youth 12 Women’s Epee
2006 National Champion - Youth 14 Men’s Epee
2006 National Champion - Cadet Men’s Epee
Just as importantly, FAN fencers demonstrated dedication, respect for the sport, and great sportsmanship throughout the year. Some of our fencers achieved personal “bests,” many received new ratings and higher rankings this season, some competed for the very first time, and some simply enjoyed fencing at FAN just for the fun of it. Special thanks too, to the FAN spouses, parents, volunteers and coaches who show so much support for the love of the sport – you are truly invaluable. We are so very proud of all of our fencers and each of their individual accomplishments this season!
FAN AT SUMMER NATIONALS
Nine FAN fencers (plus our collegiate fencers Kimberlee Montoya and Dale Hargis) traveled to Atlanta to compete in 20 different events at the USFA Summer National Championships. FAN came home with eight medals – including THREE National Championship titles !!!
• Kian Ameli won the gold medal (and the 2006 National Championship) in Youth 14 Men's Epee, and also won the gold medal (and the 2006 National Championship) in Cadet Men's Epee.
• Nik Nik Ameli won the gold medal (and the 2006 National Championship) in Youth 12 Women's Epee, and also won the 7th place medal in Youth 12 Women's Foil.
• FAN Assistant Coach Susan Jenning won the 5th place medal in Division 1A Women's Foil.
• Cynthia Ameli won the 8th place medal in Veteran 40 Women's Epee.
In addition to these medals, our Head Coach, Maitre Yves Auriol, received two Coach's Medals -- for coaching Kian Ameli to victory in the Y14 Men's Epee and Cadet Men's Epee events. Amy Montoya had a top-ten finish in Veteran 40 Women’s Epee, and Narayan Pathi fenced in a very competitive Division II Men's Epee event -- placing 19th place finish out of 180 fencers. All in all, an awesome showing by our great FAN fencers to cap off the 2005-2006 fencing season.
FAN AT PCC's - FAN WINS THE MEN'S EPEE TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP!
FAN fencers continued their successful 2005 - 2006 season at the Pacific Coast Section Champtionships. FAN Coach Susan Jennings won the gold medal in Women's Foil, and Coach Nicholae Diaconescu won silver in Men's Epee. FAN fencers Kian Ameli and Evan Ranes placed in the top 16 of the very competitive Men's Epee event. The FAN team of Nicholae Diaconescu, Evan Ranes and Kian Ameli, fenced extremely strong competition to win the Pacific Coast Men's Epee Team Championship. FAN is now housing the beautiful perpetual trophy won by our great team of fencers! This trophy dates back to 1930, and it is inscribed with the names of many legendary west coast fencers and clubs. We are honored to have our club name and fencers names listed on this prestigious trophy!
FAN SWEEPS NEVADA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS!
FAN fencers traveled to Reno in April and swept the 2006 Nevada State Championships ! Gold medals went to: FAN Coach Susan Jennings (Women's Foil), Nelson Granda (Men's Sabre), Nik-Nik Ameli (Women's Epee) and Evan Ranes (Men's Epee). Silver medals went to: Kian Ameli (Men's Epee), Cynthia Ameli (Women's Epee) and Eli Delgado (Men's Foil). Bronze medals went to Sean Ameli (Men's Foil), Nik-Nik Ameli (Women's Foil), Narayan Pathi (Men's Epee) and Dakota Root (Women's Epee). In addition, our terrific FAN fencing teams won five of the six state team championship events! Congratulations to our Women's Foil Team champions (Susan Jennings, Dakota Root and Nik-Nik Ameli), our Men's Foil Team champions (Evan Ranes, Eli Delgado and Sean Ameli), our Women's Epee Team champions (Cynthia Ameli, Dakota Root and Nik-Nik Ameli), our Men's Epee Team champions (Evan Ranes, Eli Delgado and Kian Ameli), and our Women's Sabre Team champions (Susan Jennings, Dakota Root and Nik-Nik Ameli).
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