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PHOENIX, Ariz. —  Just breathe. For Heartlyn Tabangay (Midwest Fencing Club), it was all about breathing and taking it one point at a time. 

The Division II Women’s Saber National Champion talked about “doing breathing exercises. I'm trying to just focus on one point at a time. Because when you're down, like losing and pools, it's easy to get very confused and like, gosh, getting down yourself beating yourself up. You know, breathing has really helped me a lot and just staying focused.”

Tabangay has big goals going into next season as she celebrates her national title today and is hoping for more international tournaments on the cadet circuit going into next season. As she said “fencing is a major part of my life,” and she wants to see what she can do next.

Daniel Chirashnya, the Y-14 Men’s Epee National Champion, alluded to just how much work he has put into fencing to get this medal “I've been working towards it for so long, so many hours and days. And so it just feels great to finally get it.”  

On his journey to gold, he made quite the comeback in his final bout after being down 9-14, he said “I was just trying to get the next touch and doing what my coach was trying to tell me to do. Just take it slow, one at a time, and I guess it just went my way.”

Arush Talasila, Division III Men’s Foil gold medalist and National Champion, was just so appreciative of everyone supporting him “I'm very grateful for all my coaches, my friends, especially my mom, driving me all over the place for fencing practice and just always dedicating herself to me.”

Talasila had a fairly large cheering section through his gold medal bout and acknowledged “at one part it was kind of like it gave me some pressure, but on the other part, it was just amazing.”

 

Day 7 Results

Div II Women’s Saber

Gold Medalist and National Champion: Heartlyn Tabangay (Midwest Fencing Club)

Silver: Mirka A. Ramirez (South Bay Fencing Academy)

Bronze: Aria Hammerstrom (Nellya Fencers)

Bronze: Haojiao Xiong (Cardinal Fencing Club / The Fencing Center)

5th: Jaslene Lim (PDX Fencing)

6th: Olivia Dai (Bergen Fencing Club)

7th: Melissa Chiang (Zeta Fencing)

8th: Emily T. Xu (Miracle Fencing Club)

Div II Women’s Epee

Gold Medalist and National Champion: Nour Azmeh (Olympia Fencing Center)

Silver: Zoe Wang (Cavalier Fencing Club / Denver Fencing Center)

Bronze: Claire Lee (Arena Fencing Academy LLC)

Bronze: Fei Li (Cavalier Fencing Club)

5th: Kaitlyn Zanga (Apex Fencing Academy)

6th: Andrea H. Munoz (No Fear Fencing)

7th: Judy Gao (Medeo Fencing Club)

8th: Anusha Kumar (Elite Fencing Academy)
 

Div III Men’s Foil

Gold Medalist and National Champion: Arush Talasila (Rain City Fencing Center / Salle Auriol Seattle)

Silver: James Snell (Parkland HS JROTC Fencing Matadors)

Bronze: Brian Kim (Space City Fencing Academy)

Bronze: Owen C. Lynch (Golden State Fencing Academy)

5th: Samuel Li (Rain City Fencing Center)

6th: Brendan Lee (Tim Morehouse Fencing Club)

7th: Eric Shao (Star Fencing Academy)

8th: Ryan Park (Elite International Fencers Club)

Veteran Team Women’s Saber

Gold Medalists: Fierce Femmes (Jasmina Denner, Eileen Foley, Yelena Kalkina, & Julie Seal)

Silver: Victorious Secret (Leigh Altman, Clare Deming, Laura Johnson & Kate Sierra)

Bronze: The MFC Team (Frauke Berman, Elisabet Chiarelli, Natalia Oblonsky, & Sharon Gordon)

Veteran Team Men’s Foil

Gold Medalist: Fencers Club (Frets Olivares, Philippe Bennet, Marek Wyszynski, & Roustam Pimoutkine)

Silver: Wildlife Fencing (Nathan Anderson, Kwangsuk Chung,Peter Habala, & John Kissingford)

Bronze: Sunshine Lions (Leo Popokh, John Lawrence, Rolando Suarez, & Nestor Grajales)

Y-14 Women’s Foil

Gold Medalist and National Champion: Sara Amr Hossny (South Brooklyn Fencing)

Silver: Caterina Fedeli (Epic Fencing Club / SCAD- Atlanta Fencing)

Bronze: Lavender Lee (Top Fencing Club)

Bronze: Kaitlyn Tan (Star Fencing Academy)

5T: Chloe I. Chen (Elite Fencing Club)

5T: Ella Calise (Tim Morehouse Fencing Club)

7th: Joy Zhaoyi Liu (Golubitsky Fencing Center)

8th: Emma Yang (Star Fencing Academy)

Y-14 Men’s Epee

Gold Medalist and National Championship: Daniel Chirashnya (Academy Of Fencing Masters)

Silver: Ari Silvers (Windy City Fencing-Chicago)

Bronze: Caleb Eskridge (Alliance Fencing Academy)

Bronze:: Nicholas Iarikov (New York Fencing Academy)

5th: Dylan G. Kats (New York Fencing Academy)

6th: Andy Zheng (Guanyi Fencing Academy / Twin Cities Fencing Club)

7th: Jake Lo (Swords Fencing Studio)

8th: Karol Karnas (Fencing Center Of Chicago)

Y-14 Men’s Saber

Gold Medalist and National Champion: Daniel Holz (Premier Fencing Academy LLC)

Silver: Nazir Primus (Peter Westbrook Foundation / Fencers Club Inc.)

Bronze: Eric Kwalwasser (Stamford Fencing Center, LLC)

Bronze: Connor Chung (Tim Morehouse Fencing Club)

5th: Noah Lee (San Diego Fencing Center)

6th: Rayn Patel (Capital Fencing Academy)

7th: Rohit Kalpathy (Globus Fencing Academy)

8th: Howard Li (LA Fencing Academy of Pomona)

 

See the complete results on Fencing Time. 

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