This year is shaping up to be a very exciting year for GRAFA at summer nationals. GRAFA will be represented by 14 fantastic young fencers at the Summer National Championships at San Jose, CA in July. 8 of 8 fencers who competed have qualified for 13 events at summer nationals. GRAFA extends it's congratulations on some excellent fencing from some very talented fencers as they head out to summer nationals this summer.

We would also like to wish our young 10 to 12 year old fencers good luck as they head out to Regional Youth and Summer National Qualifiers next weekend.

GRAFA wishes to congratulate one of it's club members, Rada Sarkisova, on her acceptence into the University of Notre Dame. Rada will be fencing on the woman's foil Varsity team. We wish Rada all the best in her college studies and fencing career.

GRAFA would like to congratulate all of our fencers who participated in the "In Like a Lion" tournament hosted at Liberty Lakes Fencing Club in Howell MI on Saturday March 8th! Well done Connor and Daniel Davis, Estelle and Henry Woloszyn, Sarah Filby and Claire Squibb!

Y-10 Event
Connor Davis – Gold
Estelle Woloszyn- Silver
Sarah Filby- Bronze

Y-12 Event
Henry Woloszyn- Bronze
Daniel Davis- Bronze

Y-14 Event
Henry Woloszyn- Bronze

Information on the 4th in the very popular series of GRAFA camps for 07-08 is now online . These fill up fast so make sure to reserve your spot soon.

We would like to invite everyone to our annual Christmas party on Friday December 14th from 6pm to 9pm. We will be providing food, drinks and entertainment, but if you are able, we would appreciate it if you could bring a dish to pass. Angela Sarkisov will be coordinating the food arrangements, so if you have any questions or need to contact her, you may contact her at 915-5608.

We are proud of all of our GRAFA fencers making their way to Local, National and International competitions. Good luck to all of our fencers in the upcoming National Cup in Dallas in the middle of November and the Cadets World Cup in Cabries, France.

Congratulations to Dan Vredenburg on earning his "C" rank at the Remenyik by placing 15th out of 80 fencers in the Mens foil event. Dan is only 14 years old and is one of the rising stars in Michigan fencing. Way to go Dan! We are all very proud of you!!!Dan also placed 11th in the recent Division III National Championship in Tucson, Arizona. Congratulations and good luck in your future competitions!!!

Congratulations to Dayana Sarkisova on placing 5th out of 111 fencers from 12 countries in the Cadets World Cup in Budapest, Hungary. On the same weekend Dayana competed in Bratislava, Slovakia in the Juniors World Cup and placed 21st out of 136 fencers losing the bout for the top 16 to last years Junior World Champion Fenny Creiss from Hungary.