29 March 2024

The Last Fence?

23 May 2018

You knew the fencers would not give up the headlines to all that graduation hullabaloo without a fight.  Two fencing parents Kathryn Chambers and Robert Smyth report on the last salvos of another record-setting season, and as you might expect, our young competitors did not fall at the last fence!

Our Conlethians were all on the piste again two weekends ago at the Irish Youth Open. We have three newly crowned Irish champions from the event. Claudio Sosa won both the U14 and U17 categories in foil, Myles Moriarty-Smyth won the U10 foil category and Luke Sherlock won the U14 mixed épée.  Claudio, Myles and Luke also won the Pembroke Fencing Club’s best fencer trophies for their categories.  James Moriarty-Smyth finished second in the U14 foil and Matthew Sherlock third in the U10 foil.

We are also thrilled to announce that Myles Moriarty-Smyth has been awarded an Adrian Lee & Partners Fencing Scholarship for  2018/19.  He ended this‎ season ranked No.1 in Under-10s Mixed Foil both here and in the North. He amassed a record 210 points for his age group, taking Gold in all competitions on both sides of the border. Aside from winning Pembroke Fencing Club’s Best Fencer Award for Under-10s, he also ended this season ranked joint 6th in the Boys U-11s category of  the UK’s prestigious Leon Paul Junior Foil Series.

 

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And last Friday, the St. Conleth’s Fencing Club annual competition took place in the school sports hall. The aim of this competition is to put to test the skills of all the fencers in the school, and there was certainly  stiff competition to see who came out on top!  The 2018 champion was Claudia Sosa (2nd Yr); in  second place was Luke Sherlock (1st Yr) and in 3rd, Matthew Sherlock (4th Form).  There was a nice mix of 2nd years, 3rd years as well as a couple of 4th formers competing on the day. Other 4th formers also fenced it out in old fashioned style… that is, without electric equipment!   There was also the poignant moment captured on film below, when Michael Li, Conlethian fencing god, handed the Captaincy over to Stephen Rocket.  Well done Michael on captaining St. Conleth’s during a tremendous period of growth and best of luck to Stephen taking us even further!

 

 

 

by Charles Latvis

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