North American Cup

Portland, OR / April 15-18, 2011

6 Medals:

2 Gold
3 Bronze
1 Final Top 8

Congratulations to Alliance medalists and national points winners!!!

Jonathan Piskovatskov - Gold/youth-10 , 15 place/youth-12
Ally Micek - Gold/youth-14 teams
Molly Hudson - Gold/youth-14 teams
Madie Antekeier - Gold/youth-14 teams , Bronze/youth-14

Sean Wilson - Bronze/youth-12
Robin Cheong - Bronze/youth-12
Farah Lee-Elabd - 5 place/youth-12

Matthew Cramerus - 9 place/youth-12

Francesca Bassa - 12 place/division-I

Ally Micek - 12 place/youth-14

Anton Piskovatskov - 12 place/youth-14

Barbara Vanbenthuysen - 12 place/youth-12 , 22 place/youth-14

Nicolas Wilson - 12 place/youth-12

Nico Popovici - 14 place/youth-12

Anna Van Brummen - 18 place/division-I

Michael Popovici - 21 place/youth-14

Aidan Antekeier - 21 place/youth-12

Robin Cheong - 26 place/youth-14

Molly Hudson - 30 place/youth-14

Darius Zacharakis - 32 place/youth-14

Alliance has done it again, during the Portland NAC and Division I National Championships our Alliance girls competed and won the Youth-14 Women’s team epee National Championships! The Alliance team consisting of Madie Antekeier, Molly Hudson, and Ally Micek took on the highly decorated LAIFC team consisting of Jennifer Horowitz (multiple-time national champion and currently ranked as the #1 Youth-14 women’s epee fencer in the United States), Katie Angen (national champion and currently ranked as the #3 Youth-14 women’s epee fencer), and Kasia Nixon (national champion and currently ranked as the #7 Youth-14 women’s epee fencer), an extremely strong team to say the least, but of course our girls were up to the challenge. They defeated the LAIFC team 45-42. Our girls showed incredible focus as they fought almost never giving up the lead in score for the entire bout. A major upset for LAIFC and an amazing performance from our up and coming youth-14 girls. Amazing job girls! Keep up the good work!

Alliance also had stellar performances from several of our promising youth fencers. Including Jonathan Piskovatskov winning the youth-10 men’s epee national championship, only losing one bout during the duration of the youth-10 championships! Amazing job Jonathan!

Congratulations to all Alliance coaches, who work hard every day to prepare our youth for these national events!