CBA almost sweeps!

The CBA Competitive Epee summer finished with a bang. Seven happy CBA campers and their coach participated in the International Fencing Camp in Bocholt, Germany in late August. There were over 100 campers, half of them in epee, from 16 countries. The campers worked with coaches from Germany, the Netherlands, England, Austria, Canada, and Ukraine. Daily activities included a morning run, lessons, drills and footwork, and lots of bouting in different formats. Other activiti

This new S&C structure is part of our evolution as a competitive program. It will accomplish a number of positives: It will enable the fencers to do their S&C on their own schedule. (You will still be able to do it at CBA, either at the same times, or at different times); It will make cutting-edge fencing S&C available; The app’s Leader Board function will engender positive competition among the fencers for S&C effort; and It will free up more lesson time for Paul and Anna

The summer has been active and fast! Here’s what we’ve done, and will do: Summer Nationals 17 CBA fencers competed in Portland at the end of June. This is the largest fencing tournament in the world: 11 days; 108 strips; 4,000+ fencers; 6,000+ fencer/events. All of our fencers made progress toward becoming nationally competitive: pretty much everyone won pool bouts; about half of our entrants were promoted to the direct elimination; about half of those fencers won at least on

And we now have a video set-up! Fencing TV videos streaming constantly for our edification. Drop by and watch world-class fencing!

TCFC June Challenge CBA epee fencers march on! Minnesota Division epee tournaments on June 17, 2026: Youth-12 Mixed Open Women’s Open Mixed 1 – Camellia Schliep 2 – Isak Hoberg 3 – Cooper Steinman 3 – Amelia Lahr 5 – Vincent Mehl 2 – Karen Chiem 3 – Josephine Skjei 5 – Anna Schliep 6 – Faisa Mohamed 7 – Stella Wyatt 8 – Katia Solodin 9 – Arya Telci 11 – Hannah Culver 12 – Hartney Yates 14 – Elise Kolpin 16 – Maya Radtke 2 – Chase Drawz Earns B 3 – Ben Takata

19 CBA epee fencers have qualified for the 2026 USA Fencing Summer Nationals: Quinn Bissen Division IA Karen Chiem Division 1A, Division II Erik Clippard Veterans Hannah Culver Junior, Division II, Division III Chase Drawz Junior, Division II, Division III Elise Kolpin Youth-14 Jeff Kuhn Veterans Wilson

TCFC May Challenge CBA epee fencers pretty much dominated the Minnesota Division epee tournaments on May 17, 2026: Youth-12 Mixed Open Women’s Open Mixed 1 – Camellia Schliep 2 – Isaac Chu 3 – Cooper Steinman 9 - Bayliss McInnis 1 – Katia Solodin Earns E 2 – Joshephine Skjei 3 – Elise Koplin 3 – Arya Telci 6 – Leah Siskind 8 – Maya Radtke 2 – Marsden Rowland 3 – Ben Takata Earns B 3 – Wesley Sanford Earns B 7 – Kyle Honek Earns C 10 – Matthias Priedl Earns D 1