Some people have mentioned that they want to see the history of the news of the IFC. So here you go. I'll try to keep it as current as possible.
| Archive Date | The News |
| May 18, 2010 |
IFC Foil and Epee Challenge Results
March 28th. Full results can be found on AskFred Y12 - Mixed Foil: Gabe Weininger - 1st place, Frank Gonzales- 3rd place Open Mixed Foil: Len Grazian - 3rd place (earned a B), Adam Barbanell - 3rd place (renewed his B) Team Mixed Foil: IFC - 1st place |
| May 18, 2010 | 2010 Junior Olympics Our Men's Epee Team of Maciek Zmyslowski, Taylor Caruso and Patrick Ozga took 5th place. Congratulations gentlemen. |
| May 5, 2010 |
Results from Super-Regional Youth Tournament Our IFC youth fencers had a great day in
Louisville, KY. Complete results,
click
here. Y12 Men's Epee - Gabe Weininger - 3rd place (21 fencers) Y14 Men's Epee - Misha Heber - 3rd place and qualified for Summer Nationals (32 fencers) Y12 Men's Foil - Gabe Weininger - 10th place (44 fencers) |
| May 5, 2010 |
Chandler Newberger Holiday Fencing
Tournament December 13, 2009, our youth fencers did it
again. Complete results,
click
here. D and Under Mixed Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 1st place (earned a D) D and Under Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 1st place Y12 Mixed Foil - Auset Muhammad - 1st place Y12 Mixed Foil - Ian Smith - 3rd place D and Under Women's Epee - Athena Cruz - 3rd place Y12 Mixed Epee - Sammie Doro - 1st place |
| March 17, 2010 | Maciek Zmyslowski wins the Windy City Fencing Open Epee competition, renewing his "A" classification. Results posted on AskFred. |
| March 17, 2010 | Results from the 8th Annual IFC Dominick Epee Challenge are posted on AskFred. IFC fielded 9 fencers, and won the team competition. |
| March 17, 2010 |
Illinois Divisional
Results Qualifiers for the Summer Nationals saw IFC
qualify 11 fencers. For complete results, click
here. Y12 Men's Foil - Gabe Weininger - 2nd place Y14 Men's Foil - Misha Heber - 1st place, Tony Coonrod - 3rd place Y14 Men's Epee - Misha Heber - 2nd place Y14 Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 1st place U16 Men's Foil - Len Grazian - 1st place U16 Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 3rd place C and Under Men's Sabre - Devin Zayas - 1st place, Darek Koman - 2nd place C and Under Women's Sabre - Theresa Stoodley - 1st place C and Under Men's Foil - Greg Domashovetz - 2nd place, Misha Heber - 6th place C and Under Men's Epee - Daniel Brissette - 5th place, Bob Baldwin - 6th place C and Under Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 6th place C and Under Women's Epee - Tasha Domashovetz - 3rd place |
| April 29, 2009 | Results from the Super Regional Youth Tournament at the University of New Hampshire, Len Grazian took 22nd place out of 95. Alexa Laskaris got 3rd in Y10 Women's Foil, and 16th in Y12 Women's Foil. |
| April 29, 2009 |
Results from the 2008
Illinois Junior Olympic Qualifiers Held Dec. 6th, we
had good results once again. Congratulations to all of our young members who
qualified! Complete results can be found
here. Junior Men's Epee - Maciek Zmyslowski - 1st (earned an A), Harisson Siegel 6th Junior Men's Sabre - Devin Zayas - 1st Cadet Women's Epee - Julia Paul - 1st Cadet Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 3rd Junior Men's Foil - Len Grazian - 3rd, Misha Heber - 4th Cadet Men's Epee - Harisson Siegel - 5th Cadet Men's Foil - Misha Heber - 5th |
| April 29, 2009 |
Results from the 2008 IFC
Open Held Nov. 30th, IFC members had a good day once
again. Complete results can be found
here. Epee (32 fencers) / Rene Castellanos - 3rd - renewed his C, Dick Dunlop - 8th - earned a D Foil (28 fencers) / Adam Barbanell - 2nd, Len Grazian - 3rd - earned a C, Misha Heber - 10th - earned a D, ( Misha and Len are 13y old ) Sabre (10 fencers) / Devin Zayas - 1st, Darek Koman - 2nd |
| Jan. 1, 2009 | Alexa Laskaris won the bronze medal in Y10 Women's Foil at the Flower City Super Youth Circuit in Rochester, NY. |
| Jan. 1, 2009 |
Results from the 2008 Remenyik Complete results
can be found by
clicking here. Women's Sabre - Theresa Stoodley - 3rd (35 participants) Men's Sabre - Darek Koman - 6th (65 participants) Women's Epee - former IFC member, Christine Dominick - 2nd (48 participants) |
| Nov. 5, 2008 |
Results from the 2008
USFA Summer Nationals IFC Youth
fencers had a great tournament, and two of our epee greats team up for
another surprise win! |
| August 1, 2008 |
From the Windy City Open held June 8th, Harrison Seigel - 1st place (earned an A), Maciek Zmyslowski - 3rd place (earned a B). Complete results can be found by clicking here. |
| August 1, 2008 | Alexa Laskaris our young nationally ranked foilist was recently featured in the Pioneer Press. Click here for the article. |
| June 11, 2008 | Tim Glass wins Dominick Epee Challenge Crushing all who stood before him, Tim proved his medal once again. The tournament was again A2 rated. Sadly, no other club wanted to take on IFC. So for the first time in its eight year history, no team event. Click here for complete results. |
| June 11, 2008 | Ivan Lee Our 2004 and 2008 Olympian, paid a visit to our club. Thanks Ivan, you made our day. Pictured here, with a bunch of our younger members and their coaches. |
| June 11, 2008 |
IFC Foil/Sabre
Challenge was held on March 30, and it was a sweet
success, especially for the young ones. Youth 12 Foil - 1. Misha Heber, 2. Alexa Laskaris, 3. Len Grazian, 5. Auset Muhammad, 7. Nicole Mitchell, 8. John Leinonen Mixed Foil - 1. Adam Barbanell, 5. Travis Wittenburg, 6. Chris Monti Mixed Sabre - 2. Darek Koman, 5. Chris Monti Women's Foil - 3. Sue Farwick |
| April 30, 2008 |
Pictures and Video from the
NAC A little late but better than never.
Pictures and video of IFC fencers... Picture here, video of Marcin and Airforce Academy guy here, and two of our own battling it out here here. |
| April 30, 2008 | Harrison Siegel takes 1st Place At the "Green Tournament" in Waukeshaw, WI, earning a C2008 rating. Click here for complete results. |
| April 1, 2008 |
North American Cup, Div
II/III Chicago hosted a NAC event. Our fencers
made a great showing of themselves. Div III - Men's Epee (81 participants) M. Zmyslowski - 3rd (earned a C), D. Brissette - 5th (renewed his D), C. Hinkes - 7th (earned a D), H. Siegel - 15th Vet. 50-59 - Men's Epee (57 fencers) Tim Glass - 1st, J. Lartz - 16th Vet. Combined - Men's Epee (72 fencers) T. Glass - 3rd, J. Lartz - 20th Vet. 60+ Men's Epee (40 fencers) R. Baldwin - 15th Div III - Women's Epee (79 fencers) J. Paul - 20th, L. Georoulis -26th Div III Men's Foil (147 fencers) A. Markow - 33rd, C. Monti - 35th |
| April 1, 2008 | SYC in New Jersey Alexa Laskaris takes 3rd in Y10 WF (out of 32) and 15th in Y12 WF (out of 49). |
| Mar. 9, 2008 | Junior Olympic News 15 year old IFC fencer Harrison Siegal took 109th place out of 230 in Junior Men's Epee, and was the highest place Illinois fencer. He was also 104th out of 225 in Cadet. |
| Mar. 9, 2008 |
Super Regional Youth Circuit Our
young fencers showed great results at the Feb. 8-10 tournament in Kentucky. Y10 Women's Epee, 3rd place, Isabela Artola Y10 Women's Foil - Alexa Laskaris - 1st place, Isabela Artola - 3rd place Y12 Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 7th place, Alexa Laskaris - 9th place Y12 Men's Foil - Len Grazian - 7th place Y14 Women's Foil, 13th place, Nicole Mitchell Y14 Men's Epee - Daniel Brissette - 12th place, 18th place, Sam Heidorn, 27th place, Christopher Monti Y14 Men's Foil - Chris Monti - 11th place, Len Grazian -16th place Y14 Men's Sabre, 11th place, Christopher Monti |
| Mar. 9, 2008 | IFC fencer Alexa Laskaris placed 3rd in the Y10 Women's Foil in the Super Regional Youth Cup in New Hampshire. |
| Mar. 9, 2008 | 2008 Pre-Competitive Clinic our biggest yet Fencers from different clubs from Illinois and Wisconsin attended. Participants said that they "loved every minute of it," and that they learned "tremendously" about preparation for tournaments. Previous participants said that it was "the best clinic so far." Pictures here, here and here. |
| Feb. 18, 2008 |
Results from the Jan. 5th and 6th Regional Youth Tournament are up.
And IFC cleans up again! Y10 Mixed Foil - Alexa Laskaris - 1st place, Y14 Men's Foil - Len Grazian - 1st place, Y14 Women's Foil - Nicole Mitchell - 3rd place |
| Jan. 21, 2008 |
Our Christmas Tournament Not an official tournament, but we did
have fun! Our top finishers: Foil - 1st - Chris Monti, 2nd - Misha Heber, 3rd - Len Grazian and Marcin Zmyslowski Epee - 1st - Maciek Zmyslowski, 2nd - Bob Baldwin, 3rd - Tasha Domashetich and Sam Haidorn. A picture of our winners, and a video of the last touché'. |
| Jan. 21, 2008 |
Our fencers
at CFC Holiday "D" and Under cleaned up!
Complete results can be
found
here. Some of the highlights... Y12 Mixed Foil - Misha Heber - 1st place, Len Grazian - 2nd place, Alexa Laskaris and Auset Muhammad - 3rd place Y12 Mixed Epee - Chris Gloeckle - 2nd place Open Epee - Rick Glatzel - 3rd place, Sam Haidorn - 7th place Open Foil - Boris Gendelev - 3rd place, Alan Markow - 6th place Open Sabre - Chris Monti - 3rd place |
| Dec. 31, 2007 |
IFC Fencers qualify for Junior Olympics Our young fencers had a great day at the JO Qualifiers at Northwestern University. Alan Markow took 3rd place in Cadet Men's Foil. Tasha Domashovetz took 3rd in Cadet Women's Epee. Harrison Siegel was 2nd in Junior Men's Epee and earned a D2007 classification. All qualified. The 2007 IFC Open December 2nd. IFC fencer Chris Monti earned an E2007 in Epee. Full results can be found here. |
| October 11, 2007 |
Results from CLC Tournament On September 23rd the College of Lake County held a tournament where our young fencers did very well. In Youth 12 Foil - Len Grazin - 1st, Nicole Mitchell - 3rd. In Youth 14 Epee, Scott Durand - 2nd. In Youth 14 Foil - Chris Monti - 2nd, Len Grazian- 3rd. In Open Epee, Harrison Seigel - 3rd. Complete results can be found by clicking here. |
| July 31, 2007 | IFC Youth Tournament Held on June 3rd, this event had over 70 entries, including 21 for Y12 Foil. IFC young ones Harrison Siegel, Len Grazian, Chris Monti, and Marcin Zmyslowski were all stand outs, winning their events. Complete results can be found by clicking here. |
| June 5, 2007 | IFC Foil & Sabre Challenge Results Complete results can be found by clicking here. |
| June 5, 2007 | Super Regional Youth Tournament Len Grazian placed 10th at the Super Regional Youth Tournament in New Hampshire. Congratulations Len! |
| April 4, 2007 |
IFC Open Results Tim Glass takes 2nd place and John Lartz 3rd. Congratulations to both. Complete results can be found by clicking here. |
| April 4, 2007 | CAA Regional Youth Circuit Results IFC youth fencers did very well at the December 3rd RYC tournament hosted by the Chicago Athletic Association, with almost 50% of our fencers reaching the top 8 of every event they entered. |
| December 7, 2006 |
Summer Nationals Results Congratulations to Tim Glass who won the 50-59 Mens' Epee Championship! Click here and here to see the award pictures. Also, the IFC team of Robert Baldwin, Rene Castellanos, Daniel Kolosieke and Alex Shilkrut took 9th place out of 33 in the Senior Team Men's Epee. |
| December 7, 2006 |
IFC Epeeists are on the Rise Tim Glass earns an A06 classification with his first place finish at the 2006 Midwest Sectionals. Daniel Kolosieke earned a B06 classification by taking second place (and knocking out several highly ranked fencers in the process). Our new member Alex Shilkrut placed 4th at the Hutchinson Open, also earned a B06. Our congratulations to all! |
| February 28, 2006 |
Results from the Regional Youth Tournament held December 2nd & 3rd at the CAAFC. Complete results are available by clicking here.
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| November 18, 2005 | Goodbye to Christine Dominick After four years with the IFC, and winning more trophies than she can pack into a storage unit, Christine is leaving the IFC to train in Colorado. We'll miss her. Good luck, Christine. And remember you always have a home with us. |
| November 18, 2005 |
Results from the 2005 Remenyik at Northwestern University
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| November 18, 2005 | Christine Dominick wins the 2005 Burton Open at Northwestern University For complete results, click here. |
| October 25, 2005 |
Report from the Nationals Complete results can be found by clicking here.
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| August 30, 2005 |
Dominick Epee Challenge The Illinois Fencers Club is renaming its popular and successful annual Epee Challenge after 2004 Women's Division 1A National Epee Champion and IFC member Christine Dominick. Click here for more information. |
| June 17th, 2005 | Christine Dominick wins the Midwest Sectional Championships for the 3rd straight time. Colby Vargas takes 3rd in Men's Epee. |
| April 26, 2005 |
Our college boy Tom Grant takes 8th place in Div III Sabre at the Denver NAC competition. Complete results can be found by clicking here. |
| April 26, 2005 |
The IFC hosts the 2005 Illinois Divisional Tournament Click here for further information or to pre-register. |
| March 21, 2005 |
Results from the Fifth Annual IFC Beginners Tournament In foil, 1st place Jason Will of the University of Wisconsin, 2nd place Tony Parello of the CAAFC, 3rd places Carsen Rodeback and Alice Stanford. In sabre, 1st place Derek Koman, 2nd place Stephen Yamada of the CFC, 3rd places Josh Suevel and Matt Brown of the University of Wisconsin. 32 people participated. Thanks everyone! Complete results available by clicking here. |
| February 16, 2005 | Results from the 2004 IFC Open are available by clicking here. This year's Foil was a B1 class event with 20 competitors, Epee an A2 with 28 and Sabre a D1 with 15. John Lartz took 3rd place in Epee. Thanks to all who competed! |
| January 11, 2005 |
A Good Week for the IFC.
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| December 13, 2004 | Christine Dominick has won the Women's Epee event, 2004 Remenyik, held at Northwestern University! This was the toughest this event has been in years. Congratulations, Christine! |
| December 13, 2004 | At the College of Lake County Open, held on October 17th, Our President David St. George took 3rd place, earning a B04 classification. Hail to the Chief! |
| November 22, 2004 |
At the Burton Open held on October 9th at Northwestern University, Congratulations to both of them! John Lartz took 3rd place in Men's Epee and Christine Dominick took 3rd place in Women's Epee. |
| November 22, 2004 | At the Chicago Junior Fencing Festival held on September 19th, IFC fencers Brian Zielnicki(12y old) took 2nd place and Quinton Spahn (12y old) took 3rd place. Congratulations to both of them! |
| August 25, 2004 |
Christine Dominick wins the Div IA Women's Épée
at the 2004 Summer Nationals. We are so proud of
her. Christine is our first ever Div IA champion. Also... Steve Miller, 26th, Division III Men's Épée John Lartz, 5th, Veteran 40/49 Men's Épée Rene Castellanos, 15th, Veteran 50/59 Men's Épée Robert Baldwin, 9th, Veteran 60 and over Men's Épée For complete Illinois results from the Summer Nationals, click here. |
| August 15th, 2004 |
John Lartz takes 3rd place at the 9th Annual Indiana Cup. Click here for details. |
| July 12th, 2004 |
Our New Trier fencer Colin Cross earned a C04 at the CAAFC's Hutchinson Open. Our hearts explode with pride. |
| July 12th, 2004 |
The IFC Epeé Team of John Lartz, Steve Miller and David St. George took 1st place at the College of Lake County Open. John took 3rd in the individual, Christine Dominick 4th, David 5th. Returning veteran René Castellanos took 6th, earning a D04 classification. Congrats to all! To see their bright, shining faces, click here. |
| July 12th, 2004 |
Results of the Third Annual IFC Epeé Challenge are posted. Our man Colby Vargas earns a B04 classification. Click here for details. |
| May 24th, 2004 |
Tom Grant, Colby Vargas, David St. George, Steven Miller and Christine Dominick all qualified for the 2004 Summer Nationals at the Midwest Sectional Championships. Christine took 1st place in Women's Epee. We are so proud of them. |
| May 24th, 2004 |
Christine Dominick takes 27th place in Women's Epee at the National Championships in Atlanta, GA. Way to go, Christine! |
| May 6th, 2004 |
John Lartz takes 3rd place at the Escrime du Lac Friday Night Fencing tournament, renewing his classification to B04. Click here for details. |
| May 6th, 2004 |
Christine Dominick takes 3rd place at the CAAFC Open on March 28th. She is also confirmed for competition in this years Division I Championships. |
| May 6th, 2004 |
From the North American Cup in Arlington, TX, our boys romped. Steve Miller 12th in Div II Men's Epee. John Lartz 19th in Veteran Men's Epee. Complete Illinois results available by clicking here. |
| May 6th, 2004 |
Our man Colby Vargas wins the Illinois Divisional Championships in Men's Epee. |
| March 29th, 2004 |
Our boys did good. At the Midwest High School Championships, Tom Grant took 8th place in Men's Sabre. Steve Miller took 2nd place in Men's Epee |
| March 29th, 2004 |
Results of the 2004 Beginners Tournament Click here for details. |
| March 29th, 2004 |
Results and Photos from the December 2003 Youth Fencing Tournament Click here for details. |
| November 9th, 2003 | Results from the 2003 IFC Open Fencing Tournament Click here for complete results. Tom Grant earns a D03 with his 3rd place. Note: He also took 3rd place at the Catholic Memorial HS tournament against some very tough competition. |
| October 11th, 2003 | Results from the Burton October 11th at Northwestern University. Christine Dominick wins Women's Epee. John Lartz is 5th in Men's Epee. Click here for complete results. |
| August 24th, 2003 |
Revised - Fourth Annual IFC Picnic
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the picnic date has been
moved to August 24th at Kristin
Rill's place. Where: 1071 Lismore Dr., Des Plaines, IL When: Sunday, August 24th, from 2:00 PM till the Rills sick the dogs on us. Bring the kids! |
| Sept. 1st, 2003 |
IFC's results from the 2003 Summer Nationals Click here. |
| July 20th, 2003 | John Lartz takes 3rd place at the Indiana Cup, and earns a B03. Congratulations John. Click here for complete results. |
| June 25th, 2003 | The Second Annual IFC Epee Challenge is history. Our Man Colby Vargus takes 2nd place. Click here for the complete results. |
| June 25th, 2003 |
Pre-Summer Nationals Two Day Epee Clinic May 31 and June 1, 2003. Click here for details. |
| May 22nd, 2003 | VP of Lots of Stuff says Goodbye Don Badowski gives up his position as Vice President. Sad but true. Click here to read all about it. |
| May 22nd, 2003 | The Crushings (also know as Results from the Midwest Sectionals). Christine Dominick wins Open Women's Epee. Chris Karll wins Open Men's Epee in a very exciting final. Our girl Kristin Rill wins U19 Women's Sabre and takes 3rd place in Open Women's Sabre. |
| May 22nd, 2003 |
Kids Tournament Results, March 23rd. 38 young ones of various sizes. Click here for details. |
| April 30th, 2003 | John Lartz takes 27th (out of 76) in Veteran's Epee at the Arlington, TX NAC. So now I have to call him 'Sir'. |
| April 30th, 2003 | Kristin Rill tears up the World On March 4th, 2003 our girl Kristin and the Ohio State University Fencing Team took 1st place at the Midwest Championships. Read the story. |
| April 7th, 2003 | Beginners Tournament Results, from February 16th. This year we had 34 in foil and 11 in sabre. These things are getting bigger all the time. Maybe we should hold two next year. What do you thing? Click here for details. |
| February 17th, 2003 |
Christine Dominick takes 19th place at the San Diego NAC. She earns points! Congratulations, Christine. |
| January 7th, 2003 | Our boy John Lartz takes 3rd place at the prestigious Turkey Shoot Open and earns a B02. He only lost out to the juvenile delinquent Greg Howard and the welfare cheat Zack Morell. Click here for the results. |
| January 7th, 2003 | The Third IFC Open results are posted. Thanks to all who fenced and helped out. |
| November 19th, 2002 |
Don's Big Oops. My Letter to the Fencers of IFC. Click here to cry over it |
| November 19th, 2002 | Our girl Kristin Rill earns her B02 by taking 3rd in Women's Sabre at the 2002 Remenyik. |
| November 19th, 2002 | Our man Kang Sun earns his C02 classification at the 2002 Burton Open, Northwestern University. He finished second in the B2 rated epee tournament. Congratulations! |
| November 19th, 2002 |
Illinois Division Newsletter. Christine Dominick has published the first of may newsletters concerning fencing in our Division. Click here to see it. |
| October 14th, 2002 | New Epee Coach. Not that we don't love Coach Ina working with us. But she needs some help. To that end, we have retained the services of a famous coach from the northwest. Click here for details. |
| August 1st, 2002 | Third Annual IFC Picnic, August 10th at Kristin Rill's place. Click here for details. And while your at it, make sure you join the ifcfencing user group. |
| July 7th, 2002 |
Results for the 2001-02 Summer Nationals, in beautiful Greenville, SC.
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| June 8th, 2002 |
At the Fencing 2000 Regional Youth Tournament held Saturday, June 8th, our boy Bobby Juckett finished second out of eight in the Under 10 Sabre. All hail Bobby, the future of fencing! |
| July 2nd, 2002 | My fencing boss, New Trier Coach Colby Vargus and his lovely wife have a new addition to the family. Introducing Lindy Vargus, who weighed in at 10 pounds 11 ounces. Colby says it was an easy delivery. Yeah, right boss. You try pulling a 12 pound sack a' sugar out of your crotch. Mother and baby doing fine. |
| June 15, 2002 | IFC Epee Challenge. Chris Karll wins. Of course he does. But... In Team Epee, Fencing 2000 (Masculine) beat IFC (Féminin & Masculine) 45-43. Oh well. Complete results, now with pictures. See the Winners of the Ugliest Fencers Contest! |
| May 31, 2002 | Our girl Kristin Rill wins the Minnesota Open, and the Heartland Circuit on points. And she kicked lots of male booty along the way. |
| May 31, 2002 | Goodbye to our Brother Fencer. Our Director of Tournaments, Kick Ass Foil Fencer, and all around Good Guy Peirce Richardson is leaving us. So long, old buddy. You know we're gonna miss ya. And I don't just mean my flick didn't land! |
