At the Philadelphia Invitational hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, North Carolina Fencing faced off against Sacred Heart, Haverford, Drew, Fairleigh Dickinson and Northwestern Universities.

On the woman's squad, former All-American Fencer Brianna Osinski has been vying for the 3rd starting position with another squad mate.  During the Philadelphia Invitational, Brianna posted 2 wins.

"This was the first competition that I did better than my squad mate.  She and I have been alternating for the 3rd spot on the starting team."

Brianna's second win gave the UNC Women's foil squad an undefeated 9-0 score against Fairleigh Dickinson University.

"Since the summer when I worked with Coach Jon Charles at the All-American Fencing Academy, I've been working on my tenacity.  I finally yelled during an attack and I realized how much extra 'oomph' it gave my lunge.  It just gave me so much more energy behind my touch."

Women's Carolina Fencing came out with 4 wins and 1 loss against No. 4 Northwestern University.  It was the 23-4 win against Drew University that clinched the 1,300th win for Head Coach Ron Miller.  The actual win came from Senior Allie Mead in the epee squad.

All-American Fencing's Head Coach Gerhard Guevarra and Paul Hovey are also both former UNC Fencers that were under the direction of Coach Ron Miller.

The All-American Fencing Academy recently hired two new coaches, Sam Moore and Maya Cameron.

Coach Sam Moore hails from Southern Pines and is also a coach for the Sandhills Community College.  Originally a fencer from the New England area, he bring a wealth of experience to the All-American Fencing Academy and will start a new teen and adult foil class to relieve the growth of the current teen/adult classes led by Coach John Page.

Also bringing more talent to the All-American Fencing Academy is Coach Maya Cameron.  Coach Cameron comes to Fayetteville as an Army spouse and is a former coach and fencer from Gold Blade Fencing Center in Texas.  She will be at the helm of the new teen and adult epee team at All-American Fencing.

All-American Fencing Academy squared off against Apex Fencing Academy in the annual All-American/Apex Fencing Scrimmage.  Youth, teen and adult fencers participated in 3 different events.

"This is a good midway tournament for our fencers," says Head Coach Gerhard Guevarra. "We're halfway through the tournament season; we've done one or two high level tournaments in the fall and several in-house intramural tournaments.  This scrimmage with Apex is a good ego check and warm up as many of our fencers return from a winter break and we prepare for 2-3 more high level tournaments and North Carolina Championships."

This year, the annual scrimmage was held at the Apex Fencing Academy in Cary, NC.  3 events were held, including a youth foil, teen/adult foil and a teen/adult epee tournament.  All-American Fencing did not have participants in the teen/adult foil event.

US Army Captain, Francis Cicchini, and First Lieutenant Steve Lee led the way for the All-American epee fencers.  This was a defining moment for the All-American epee fencers as their first tournament under new All-American Fencing Academy epee coach Maya Cameron.

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