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June 23, 2024 — In-House Tournament Opportunities (and Fun!)

During our monthly in-house competition, our partnership with Las Vegas Fencing Academy had the awesome chance of earning partial scholarships to our local fencers! The event was successfully run by nationally competitive young adults whose services included refereeing, providing food, coaching, etc. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to our donors. We hope events such as these will bring awareness to the opportunities fencing has to offer, as well as the opportunities FAST Fencing can provide.

August 1-5, 2023 — Fencing Camp with Italian Olympians!

Our fencers at Las Vegas Fencing Academy had the amazing opportunity in August to fence with many great international fencers and coaches from Future Champions. Their wonderful staff included Vittoria Siletti (Italian junior national team), Kosmas Karakolis (FCC épée team manager) and Andrea Santarelli (Italian Olympic team and World Champion gold medalist!) Those who were interested in this once-in-a-lifetime chance but could not afford it were given scholarships courtesy of FAST Fencing to fulfill their fencing goals! We appreciate all of our members and fencers who put an incredible amount of work with this sport and continuously show passion.

May 27, 2023 — FAST Fencing at Japan Fair!

In late May, ten FAST Fencing members attended the annual Las Vegas Japan Fair in Chinatown to promote our cause and the sport of fencing! Our diligent workers helped set up our booth and also managed it the entire day. Free demos were offered to those interested in fencing. Participants fenced one of our nationally competitive athletes to experience the true athletic and mental aspects of the sport.