UTS juniors shine again at the NSW State U/20 Championships

The junior members of the UTS Fencing Club are the promising stars of the future coming away with 3 Gold and 3 Bronze medals.

Men's Foil: Gold to Nick Pellinkhof, Bronze to David Donato and Ashley Yue, 7th to Paul Leone Jnr
Women's Foil: 7th to Teneille Murray
Men's Epee: Gold to Paul Leone Jnr and 8th to David Donato
Men's Sabre: Gold to Paul Leone Jnr and Bronze to Nick Pellinkhof

UTS Fencing Club gets top results at Junior World Cup Tournaments

UTS fencers Joe Slowiaczek and Alex Carioti have finished a European Junior World Cup tour with some strong results.

They started in Luxembourg where they both made the top 32 in the Foil event, with Joe placed 28th and Alex 31st. Joe also competed in the Epee event where he placed 16th. They then moved on to Spain where Alex made the top 32, placing 29th and Joe came an awesome 3rd!

With the World Cup points that they picked up on the tour, Joe is now ranked 36th and Alex 152nd in the World for Junior Foil and in the Epee Joe is ranked 153rd.

Both of these young fencers will be representing Australia at the Commonwealth Junior Championships to be held in India in January next year.

National Championships

UTS Fencing Club excelled again at the Oceania and Australian Championships which were held from September 30 to October 4 in Sydney.

Of special note is that UTSFC members made up 4 out of 8 of the Men's Foilist finalists and 3 out of the top 4 with a UTSFC member involved in taking out every gold medal available in Men's Open Foil.

In total the medal haul was 6 National gold, 5 Oceania gold, 6 Silver, 7 Bronze

Women's Open Sabre - 1st Min Yi Du (Australian and Oceania Champion), 7th Melissa Yeung, 8th Alex Andre
Women's Open Sabre Teams - 2nd NSW A Team with Min Yi Du, 3rd NSW B Team with Melissa Yeung and Alex Andre
Women's Veteran Sabre - 1st Anna Slowiaczek, 3rd Julie Seggie
Men's Open Sabre Teams - 2nd NSW A Team with Frederic Jaccard and Michael Howard, 3rd NSW B Team with Keiran Thompson
Men's Oceania Sabre Teams - 1st Australia with Michael Howard
Men's Open Foil - 1st Frank Bartolillo, 2nd Steve Augoloupis, 3rd Joe Slowiaczek, 8th Alex Carioti
Men's Open Foil Teams - 1st NSW A Team with Frank Bartolillo, Joe Slowiaczek and Steve Augoloupis
Men's Oceania Foil Teams - 1st Australia with Frank Bartolillo and Joe Slowiaczek
Men's Veteran Foil - 5th Rowan Turner, 8th Peter Witkop
Women's Open Foil - 5th Dione Vosper (Oceania Champion)
Women's Open Foil Teams - 1st NSW A Team with Dione Vosper and Karin Wang
Women's Veteran Foil - 2nd Anna Slowiaczek, 3rd Julie Seggie
Men's Open Epee - 5th Joe Slowiaczek
Men's Open Epee Teams - 2nd NSW A Team with Joe Slowiaczek
Men's Veteran Epee - 5th Duncan Fairweather, 7th Myles Wilmott, 8th Peter Witkop
Women's Open Epee - 3rd Adele Haswell
Women's Open Epee Teams - 3rd NSW A Team with Adele Haswell and Julie Seggie
Women's Veteran Epee - 1st Julie Seggie, 2nd Anna Slowiaczek

Oceania U/17 Championships

Two of UTS Fencing Club's younger members travelled to New Zealand to compete in the Oceania U/17 Championships held in Christchurch from September 24th.

David Donato followed on from winning the trophy for Best Boy Senior Division A at the Schools League Grand Final, with a 3rd place in the Men's Foil and 9th in the Men's Epee. Teneille Murray placed 8th in the Women's Sabre and 13th in the Women's Foil.

NSW State Championships

UTS has again finished with 5 out of 6 State Open Individual Titles after the State Championships finished on September 18.

In total the medal haul was 5 gold, 4 Silver, 6 Bronze with sisters Dione Vosper and Adele Haswell regaining the titles they won last year with Dione almost making it a double when she met Adele in the Women's Epee Gold Medal bout.

Mens State Open Sabre Championships - 1st Frederic Jaccard, 2nd Michael Howard, 3rd Michael Read
Women's State Open Sabre Championships - 1st Min Yi Du, 3rd Melissa Yeung
Mens State Open Foil Championships - 1st Frank Bartolillo, 2nd Steve Augoloupis, 3rd Rochester Cahan
Women's State Open Foil Championships - 1st Dione Vosper, 2nd Karin Wang, 3rd Georgia Read
Mens State Open Epee Championships - 3rd Jared Cahan and Joe Slowiaczek
Women's State Open Epee Championships - 1st Adele Haswell, 2nd Dione Vosper

UTS Fencing Club's Frederic Jaccard wins latest State Men's Sabre Competition

Frederic blitzed the competition to take out the Gold medal.

Gold to Frederic Jaccard
5th to Michael Howard and 8th to Mike Abouaf

Bronze to Alex Andre

UTS Fencing Club's Junior fencers excel at U/17 Nationals

Joe Slowiaczek once again showed that he is one of the countries most promising fencers taking home 5 gold medals with Paul Leone Jnr also grabbing 3 gold and a silver medal. In the Women's, Karin Wang also performed well with 2 gold, 1 silver and a bronze medal.

Men's Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, 9th to Paul Leone Jnr and 15th to David Donato
Men's Foil Teams: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek and Paul Leone Jnr
Women's Foil: Gold to Karin Wang
Women's Foil Teams: Silver to Karin Wang
Men's Epee: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, 9th to Paul Leone Jnr and 15th to David Donato
Men's Epee Teams: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Paul Leone Jnr and David Donato
Men's Sabre: Silver to Paul Leone Jnr and 8th to Joe Slowiaczek
Men's Sabre Teams: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek and Paul Leone Jnr
Women's Sabre: Bronze to Karin Wang and 14th to Teneille Murray
Women's Sabre Teams: Gold to Karin Wang and Teneille Murray

UTS Fencing Club Novice Competition

UTS Fencing Club held their first competition for fencers who have completed the Beginners and Intermediate Classes.

The tightly contested results are below:

Gold to David Leung
Silver to Kevin Chung
Bronze to Dennis Chan
4th - James Tomlinson, 5th - John Ladavac, 6th - David Ramli, 7th - David Moore, 8th Johnson Sun

Gold to Sue Thompson
Silver to Angelyn Tan
Bronze to Caroline Loke
4th - Peggy Ho, 5th - Shannon Tseng

UTS Fencing Club makes it a clean sweep for the State Team Championships

UTS has taken out all 6 State Team Titles by winning the Women and Men's Sabre teams.

We fielded 3 teams for the Men's competition taking out Gold and Silver and 5th place.

Gold to the UTS White Team - Frank Bartolillo, Frederick Jaccard, Michael Howard
Silver to the UTS Black Team - Michael Abouaf, Alex Carioti, Michael Read, Joe Slowiaczek
5th place to the UTS Teal Team - David Donato, Paul Leone Jnr, Ashley Yue

Gold to the UTS Team - Alex Andre, Julie Seggie, Melissa Yeung

UTS dominates the Men's Foil at the latest National Circuit Competition

The gold medal match was between two UTS fencers, with Frank Bartolillo grabbing the gold from Joe Slowiaczek.

Also to be noted were the strong performances by other members of the UTS Men's Foil Competition Training Squad with Ashley Yue placed 13th, Paul Leone Jnr 21st and David Donato 27th.

Other results by UTS Fencers are below:

Men's Foil: Gold to Frank Bartolillo, Silver to Joe Slowiaczek
Women's Epee: Bronze to Adele Haswell
Women's Sabre: 6th to Melissa Yeung
Veteran Women's Epee: Silver to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Women's Foil: Silver to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Women's Sabre: Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Men's Epee: Silver to Peter Witkop in the 60+ category
Veteran Men's Foil: Silver to Peter Witkop in the 60+ category

UTS takes out Gold and Bronze in Italian Relay

UTS won back the Italian Relay crown from Sydney University in an intense match. UTS got off to a good start and managed to defend the lead against their tough opponents.

The UTS B team defeated the Sydney University B team to take out the bronze with the C team missing out on the final by one hit.

Steve Augoloupis, Frank Bartolillo, Adele Haswell, Frederick Jaccard, Dione Vosper, Melissa Yeung

Alex Andre, Peter Chicco, Michael Howard, Julie Seggie, Karin Wang, Ashley Yue

Tenielle Murray, Michael Prince, Georgia Read, Michael Read, Anna Slowiaczek, Myles Wilmott

UTS picks up 6 medals at Tex Clark Epee

UTS won 2 silver and 4 bronze medals on the weekend. The UTS women dominated the event taking out 3 of the 4 medals and also picking up a Bronze in the B Final. In the men's event Joe Slowiaczek again showed his good form by picking up a Bronze with Myles Wilmott getting the Bronze in the B final.

Bronze to Joe Slowiaczek
Bronze to Myles Wilmott in the B Final

Silver to Adele Haswell, Bronze to Dione Vosper and Julie Seggie
Silver to Anna Slowiaczek in the B Final

UTS Fencing Club hands out Annual Awards for Excellence

At the club's Annual Formal Dinner, the awards were presented by Judy Johnston, Chair, UTS Union Board.

The deserving winners are listed below:

Outstanding Service Award - Melissa Yeung
Best Fencer - Frank Bartolillo
Most Promising - Joe Slowiaczek
Best New Talent - Charles Carroll

Four out of four for UTS Fencing Club at the State Teams Championships

UTS has taken out all of the four State Team Championship events held so far this year.

Joe Slowiaczek maintained his great form anchoring the Men's Epee Team with Dione Vosper a strong finisher for the Women's Foil Team.

Gold to UTS - Peter Chicco, Mark Grant, Paul Leone Jnr, Joe Slowiaczek

Gold to UTS - Georgia Read, Anna Slowiaczek, Dione Vosper, Karin Wang

Success for UTS Fencing Club at the State Teams Championships

With UTS fielding 3 Men's Foil teams and a Women's Epee team we were well represented and dominated the competition.

Special mention needs to be made for the Men's Foil B Team who only lost for 3rd place by 1 hit.

Gold to the UTS A Team - Steve Augoloupis, Frank Bartolillo, Alex Carioti, Peter Chicco
4th place to the UTS B Team - David Donato, Paul Leone Jnr, Ashley Yue
9th place to the UTS C Team - Ian Bryant, Charles Carrol, Michael Prince

Gold to UTS - Adele Haswell, Julie Seggie, Dione Vosper

UTS will also have a strong representation at the Men's Epee and Women's Foil Team Championships this coming Sunday 17 April.

UTS Fencer Joe Slowiaczek makes the top 32 at the Cadet Foil World Championships

Joe Slowiaczek has continued his strong run of results by placing 29th at the Cadet (U/17) Foil World Championships in Linz, Austria in a 100 competitor field.

He also placed 61st in the Cadet Epee event out of 94 competitors and 50th in the Junior (U/20) Foil event our of 118 competitors.

Strong results from UTS Fencers at the latest State and National competitions

Joe Slowiaczek has spearheaded the latest lot of results for UTS Fencers. He has been dominating Men's Foil at both State and National, Junior and Open competitions and has now headed off for the World Junior and Cadet Fencing Championships being held in Linz, Austria.

Other results by UTS Fencers are below:

Men's Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek
Men's Sabre: Bronze to Michael Read and 5th to Michael Howard
Veteran Women's Epee: Gold to Julie Seggie and Bronze to Anna Slowiaczek
Veteran Women's Foil: Bronze to Julie Seggie and Anna Slowiaczek

Men's Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Bronze to Paul Leone Jnr and David Donato
Men's Epee: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Silver to Paul Leone Jnr and Bronze to David Donato
Women's Foil: Gold to Karin Wang and 8th to Tenielle Murray

UTS Fencing Club starts the year off strongly

UTS fencers started the year on a high dominating the State Gilt Epee, Foil and Sabre Competitions.

Women's Epee: Silver to Dione Vosper, Bronze to Adele Haswell and Julie Seggie
Men's Epee: Silver to Joe Slowiaczek
Women's Sabre: Silver to Melissa Yeung
Men's Sabre: Silver to Paul Leone Jnr, Bronze to Michael Howard
Women's Foil: Gold to Dione Vosper, Silver to Georgia Read
Men's Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Bronze to Ashley Yue and Paul Leone Jnr

Men's Epee: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek and 6th to Paul Leone Jnr
Women's Foil: Gold to Karin Wang
Men's Foil: Gold to Joe Slowiaczek, Silver to Nick Pellinkhof, Bronze to Ashley Yue and Paul Leone Jnr and 5th to David Donato