Thursday, April 19 marked the lease signing, insurance paper updates and floors installed for the new Salle D'Asaro Fencing Club in the South Bay! This will be our permanent and a premier fencing club for the Beach Cities. The address:

                        Salle D'Asaro Fencing Club
                        1450 228th Street  - Unit # 1
                        Torrance, CA 90501

        Classes are for all ages and all levels of experience.

Michael D'Asaro was a member of the 1996 US Men's Sabre Team to Atlanta. Since retiring after the games he has coached numerous National and International competitors in all three weapons. "He is one of the elite coaches in the country and the fact that he is opening a club in this area is huge benefit to the community".

He currently has fencers on the national teams of 4 countries and is a US National Coach of Wheelchair fencing.

For information on fencing class schedule and prices, please contact Michael at (310) 714-5407 or michael@salledasaro.com.

Monday was a Salle D'Asaro filled day in Anaheim at the US Summer Nationals winding up with a Gold Medal for Taylor Walsh, 17, in the Div. 2 Woman's Saber event. Taylor had a great first round pool going 5-1 losing only to teammate Madalyn Macarr. After the first round Maddie was seeded 2nd and Taylor 7th. Two fencers from the same pool seeded into the top 10! Neither girl lost a bout, or was even close. Until they met again to make the top 4. Taylor came out the victor this time beating Maddie 15-13. Nobody had come that close to her all day on her way to the gold medal bout where she defeated Jenifer Nolab from Boston 15-10 to win the event. Maddie took 5th. Two women in the top 8 of a national event. Not to bad for a club that's been open 2 months!

All this on the heels of a 3rd place for Lydia Fabry in the Vet 50 Women's Saber category earning her a spot on the Veterans World Team. And followed by a second place medal for Francesca Fedorovsky on Friday's Y-12 Women's Saber event.

Stay tuned for more hardware updates.
GO TEAM D!!!!!!!!!

All US Summer National Fencing Results can be found here: http://usfencingresults.com/jul-sn/