1413 Fairfield Avenue,
Shreveport, La 71101
(318) 227-7575
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Fairfield Fencing's Ben Pounds lost his life in a traffic accident in 2008. Ben, who had been working at Libby Glass, was a saber fencer who was instrumental in digitizing a significant portion of the archives for the Museum of American Fencing. His kindness and generosity will always be with us.
Emily
Horan, Melissa Alost, Isabelle Vea and Katie Wiener all have just graduated
from Southfield School where they are were introduced to fencing. Emily,
Melissa and Isabelle plan to continue fencing at Magnet while Katie will fence
at Loyola in the 2008-9 season.
Abbey Stockstill, the valedictorian
of her senior class in High School, at the University of
Pennsylvania. She drove from Monroe, Louisiana each Saturday for saber
lessons and ended up a qualifier for the US Junior Olympics. She is the
first student from Neville High School to enter the Ivy League.
Daniel and Joseph Yates are both freshmen at Magnet High and
learned to fence as youngsters 6 years ago with Andy Shaw. These brothers
have additionally won awards in music and art.
Chris
Johnson (Magnet High foil, saber, and epee fencer) posed with left-hander
Hunter Wert. Hunter learned to fence at the Winter Garden Fencing Academy near
Orlando, Florida. Hunter lives there and in
Shreveport as her dad is a Prop Master in the film industry. Hunter is
training to do just the same as her dad. She has just turned 14.
Former
Magnet High saber champion, Sam Hunt (left) is an electrician in Shreveport. Mark
Miller is a senior at Magnet who specializes in saber. Brendan Pumphrey
is a 3-weapon fencer who started fencing in the 3rd grade while at Riverside
Elementary. Hewill be at Caddo Middle Magnet in the fall.
Christina Collins is Fairfield's Fencer of the Year for 2008. She won
3 gold medals at the 2008 Ark-La-Miss Division Championships and US
National qualifiers and swept the Women's Saber titles en route to
earning her "E" rating. Christina is the first middle school fencer to
earn her rating in this division.
Sarah
Jane Driskill will be an 8th grader at Middle Magnet in the fall of 2008
specializing in epee. Fellow Middle Magnet fencer Phillip Mathis fences
saber.
Matthew
Collins will be a junior at Magnet High and has been fencing epee for 6 years. He earned an E rating at a tournament in Baton Rouge in the Spring of 2008.
Mischa
Farrell fences foil and epee and owns her own architectural firm (MISCHA
FARRELL, ARCHITECT) in Shreveport talking to Neil Johnson (one of her clients
from Neil Johnson Photography) Neil is Hannah Johnson's dad.
Omar
Skalli, born in Morocco, is a physiology professor at LSU Medical
School. He learned to fence epee and foil at the Racing Club de France in
Paris and went on to fence in Bonn, Germany and the University of Geneva in
Switzerland. From there, Omar headed to Chicago and finally to
Shreveport.
Dr. Mark Brown and his son Carter. Dr. Brown is a pediatric
surgeon and Carter is a member of the Southfield School Fencing Team. Both
fence saber and foil.
Patrick Albert learned to fence during the 7th grade at Southfield
School with a broken arm....he now fences saber with a healthy arm as a
senior at Magnet High. He intends to fence for the Centenary Fencing Team in
the fall of 2009.
John Burford has just graduated from Magnet and is headed to fence
epee with the Princeton University tigers this fall. He has fenced with our
club since the 7th grade.
Bobby Thornton is a highly skilled 3-weapon fencer who earned his Bachelor's degree from Texas A & M. After receiving his MBA from LSU, Bobby is now developing customer-tracking software for a Casino-software company in Shreveport.
Emily Pierce defeated Howell in the first round
of the 2008 Junior Olympics. Howell went on to win the silver medal in the
Cadet Women's Epee. Photo by Rick Pierce
Our fencers "sweep" the Cadet Men's Saber category for
the 2004 Jr. Olympics (l to r) Addison
Lacy (GOLD), Jason Irish (SILVER), Philip Hand (BRONZE), John Burford
(BRONZE)
Philip Hand (left) and Michael Phillips at the Jr.
Olympics. Philip was the Under-17Junior Olympic Saber champion and Michael was
the Under-17 and Under-20 Junior Olympic
Epee champion.
Fairfield Avenue School of Fencing
1413 Fairfield Avenue, Shreveport, La 71101
(318) 227-7575
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Dana Takach's senior picture represented photographer Daryll Chitty's work for the magazine's photography issue.