{"id":2292,"date":"2019-02-18T23:25:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2019-02-18T23:26:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T06:26:58","slug":"socal-fencers-snag-three-golds-at-the-2019-junior-olympic-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/socal-fencers-snag-three-golds-at-the-2019-junior-olympic-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"SoCal Fencers Snag Three Golds at the 2019 Junior Olympic Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two-time Junior Olympic Champion Stephen Ewart (holding trophy) on the podium with the other medalist from the Junior Men’s Epee event at the 2019 Junior Olympic Championships.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

One fourth of all the individual gold medals handed out at this year\u2019s Junior Olympic Championships in Denver, Colorado (Feb. 15-18, 2019) were won by fencers from the Southern California Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The newly crowned Junior Olympic Champions from Southern California are: Mikaela Avakian (WCFA), who won the gold in Cadet Women’s Saber; Bryce Louie (LAIFC), who took first place in Cadet Men’s Foil, and Stephen Ewart, who won the Junior Men’s Epee event for the second year in a row!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other medalist include Claire Beddingfield (LAIFC), who took 7th in Junior Women’s Epee, and Matthew Limb (AGFC), who finished 8th in Cadet Men’s Saber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SoCal medalist are listed, below. Full results can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

SoCal Medalists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
EVENT<\/th>PLACE<\/th>FENCER<\/th>CLUB(S)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Junior Men's Epee<\/td>1<\/td>Stephen Ewart<\/td>Swords \/ Notre Dame<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cadet Women's Saber<\/td>1<\/td>Mikaela Avakian<\/td>WCFA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cadet Men's Foil<\/td>1<\/td>Bryce Louie<\/td>LAIFC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Junior Women's Epee<\/td>7<\/td>Claire Beddingfield<\/td>LAIFC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cadet Men's Saber<\/td>8<\/td>Matthew Limb<\/td>AGFC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Junior Men’s Epee gold medalist Stephen Ewart with his coach from Swords Fencing Studio, Tigran Shaginian (wearing the coach’s gold).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Epee fencers Thomas Moore, Aaron Liang, Ryan Lee, Nathan Wang, and Stafford Moosekian at the 2019 Junior Olympics.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Photos courtesy of Kathryn Atwood. If you have photos of SoCal fencers doing well that you would like to share, please contact web admin.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One fourth of all the individual gold medals handed out at this year\u2019s Junior Olympic Championships in Denver, Colorado (Feb. 15-18, 2019) were won by fencers from the Southern California Division. The newly crowned Junior Olympic Champions from Southern California are: Mikaela Avakian (WCFA), who won the gold in Cadet Women’s Saber; Bryce Louie (LAIFC), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[287,138],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-featured","tag-junior-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}