Officer Elections

At the last officer’s meeting, Kent Michonski, president, John Kennedy, vice president, Ben Lee, treasurer, and Kristine Warhola, the club’s representative on the UConn Club Sports Council (CSC), voted on officers for the fall.

Michonski and Kennedy are retaining their positions, while Warhola is taking over for Lee, who will not be able to continue as treasurer any longer. With Maha Taha-Furst, the club’s secretary, graduating in December, the officers decided to merge her position with that of the CSC representative.

After an hour of discussion over the four club members who submitted applications, the officers chose Christine Beede to take the position of secretary/CSC representative.

The other applicants may be given positions within the club that do not give them voting rights on the club’s actions, but allow the officers to observe how they handle themselves, as they may be moved into an officer’s position within the next year.

New Equipment

After being cramped into a tiny six-by-eight-foot closet for years, forcing John Kennedy to piece together old, unreliable equipment since Sept. 2009 and having our coach abandon us, there’s finally some good news for the UConn Fencing Club.

We have new equipment.

Funded a little more than $2,000 by the Undergraduate Student Government, we sent an order to Absolute Fencing Gear. Included in this order were 10 foils, 10 épées, 10 sabres, two size 38 lamés and two size 54 lamés. We debuted this new equipment on April 18, our most recent practice, and everything worked well.

This isn’t especially good news for any of the foil fencers, since we already had an abundance of foils, but for the épée and sabre fencers, this is an amazing gift.

Before we received the shipment, there were only one or two working electrical épées, both right-handed. This, of course, left the lefties with no way to fence. As for the sabre fencers – who didn’t have many blades either – it is now possible for more people to fence without faulty equipment.