Richard Emmerick Shield – round 03

Saturday 10 December was Round 03 of our Club comp, the Richard Emmerick shield – finishing off the year with some fun and fierce competition in foil, epee and sabre!

To promote participation, connections and learning, this year we opened all three rounds of the Richard Emmerick Shield to fencers from other clubs, and it was great to have fencers from Penrith Academy of Fencing come up and compete in this one, making it the biggest round of the comp this year!

We'll be doing it all again next year, and looking forward to welcoming fencers from more clubs to expand and enhance the comp experience for everyone.

View the comp results.

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Thanks to support from our State MP Trish Doyle with an Office of Sport Local Grant in 2021, we’ve been able to run our comps, training sessions, and special community events, using the state of the art scoring equipment which the grant provided – streamlining scoring, timing and refereeing, and giving fencers experience with the systems they'll encounter in higher level comps. 

Thanks to support from Katoomba and Upper Blue Mountains Community Bendigo Bank Branch this year, we’ve been able to buy a laptop to run the competition software Fencing Time, giving fencers a high-quality competition experience and also allowing members to learn the software and expand their skills.