A Women's Epee Champagne Challenge will be held on Sunday, October 16, at DCFC's Forest Glen Fencing Center.

The Open Women's Epee competition will close registration at 10:00am.

Preregister at AskFRED.

A Champagne Challenge will be held on Sunday, October 30, at DCFC's Forest Glen Fencing Center.

The Open Mixed Epee competition will close registration at 10:00am.

Preregister at AskFRED.

A Youth Sabre Challenge will be held on Saturday, November 5, at DCFC's Forest Glen Fencing Center.

The Youth-10/12 competition will close registration at 4:00pm. The Y10 & Y12 events may be separated if there are sufficient entries. The Youth-14 Mixed Sabre will close at 6:00pm.

Preregister at AskFRED.

A Youth Epee Challenge will be held on Sunday, November 6, at DCFC's Forest Glen Fencing Center.

The Youth-10 Mixed Epee competition will close registration at 10:00am. The Youth-12 event will close at 12:00pm. The Youth-14 Mixed Mixed Epee will close at 3:00pm.

Preregister at AskFRED.

The Capitol Division qualifiers for the Junior Olympic Championships will be held on Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13 at DCFC's Forest Glen Fencing Center. The qualifiers are open to Capitol Division Members ONLY. Citizenship requirements apply. U20 fencers must have been born between 2003 and 2009, inclusive, or be on Cadet national point list. U17 fencers must have been born between 2006 and 2009, inclusive, or be on Y14 national points list. If those on points list have trouble preregistering, email the organizer.

The registration fee is $10.00 plus $45.00 per event entered if preregistered. If not registered on AskFRED by the November 5 deadline, $10.00 registration fee plus $90.00 per event.

The foil and sabre qualifiers will be held on Saturday, November 12. The epee qualifiers will be held on Sunday, November 13.

Register at AskFRED.

The Capitol Division Executive Committee is committed to increasing the number of rated referees within the division.

To support this goal, the Committee has voted to reimburse any Capitol Division member's referee clinic fees and testing fees if they pass the written test and practical exam and successfully earn a referee rating. Travel and hotel expenses are not reimbursable, only the fees for the clinic and test. Verification of the rating earned and documentation of the testing fees should be sent to the Division Treasurer.

In addition, the Capitol Division will reimburse the $35.00 membership upgrade fee for new referees (and those who have just turned age 18).

For the 2021-2022 season, the Capitol Division is pleased to make international competition travel grants of $400.00 available to individual fencers who are members of the Division. These grants are being made to fulfill our mission, as outlined in our bylaws, to assist Divisional fencers to reach their full potential in fencing. These grants are available to reimburse expenses related to competing in cadet, junior, and senior US Fencing designated international competitions and at Veteran World Championships and to attending those same competitions as a member of the official US Fencing delegation.

Fencers are eligible for one grant per season. Grants are available for expenses not fully reimbursed from other sources.

In order to receive these grants, eligible fencers should submit the Capitol Division International Competition Grant Application to the Capitol Division's Developmental Committee with copies of all the relevant receipts. Reimbursements for expenses will be disbursed by the Treasurer of the Capitol Division.

Deadlines for filing applications for the 2021-2022 season:

June 15, 2022 for cadet, junior, and senior grants
November 30, 2022 for veteran grants

Application and receipts should be e-mailed to capdivgrants@gmail.com or mailed to:

Valerie Asher, Developmental Committee Chair
5702 Roosevelt Street
Bethesda, MD 20817

For the 2021-22 season, the Capitol Division is pleased to make developmental grants of $300.00 available to the member clubs. Member clubs are eligible for developmental grants every other season. These grants are being made to fulfill our purposes and objectives as outlined in our bylaws, in particular our missions to support, enhance and develop the sport of fencing and to assist Divisional fencers to reach their full potential in fencing. These grants should not be used for ordinary club expenses such as rent or US Fencing membership; rather the clubs should use these funds to enhance the experience of Divisional fencers in the spirit of our bylaws. One grant will be available to each club.

The list below gives a few examples of ways that these funds could be used. This list includes suggestions, but the committee is open to other uses:

• to upgrade and improve fencing equipment
• to cover the expenses of a coach to travel to an event when the individual fencers being coached are unable to fully cover those expenses
• to cover transportation costs, such as a van rental, that would allow a group of fencers to attend a competition
• to fund an individual fencer who is passionate about fencing but is not able to afford to travel to significant events such as RYCs, SYCs or NACs

In order to receive these grants, the club representative should submit a proposal on the Capitol Division Developmental Grant Application to the Capitol Division's Developmental Committee. The proposal will be submitted to the rest of the Executive Committee. If the proposal is approved, the club representative should submit receipts for the expenses covered by the grant and a check will be sent to the member club.

The grant application form and receipts should be e-mailed to capdivgrants@gmail.com or mailed to:

Valerie Asher, Developmental Committee Chair
5702 Roosevelt Street
Bethesda, MD 20817

The deadline for grant application is June 15, 2022.

July 2020 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
July 2020 Capitol Division Membership Meeting Minutes
July 2019 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
July 2019 Capitol Division Membership Meeting Minutes
July 2018 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
July 2018 Capitol Division Membership Meeting Minutes
August 2017 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
August 2017 Capitol Division Membership Meeting Minutes
January 2017 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
August 2016 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
August 2016 Capitol Division Annual Meeting Minutes
January 2016 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
July 2015 Capitol Division Informal Exec Committee Minutes
July 2015 Capitol Division Annual Meeting Minutes
July 2014 Capitol Division Informal Exec Committee Minutes
July 2014 Capitol Division Annual Meeting Minutes
August 2013 Capitol Division Informal Exec Committee Minutes
August 2013 Capitol Division Annual Minutes
November 2012 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
September 2012 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
July 2012 Capitol Division Exec Committee Minutes
2012 Capitol Division Annual Meeting Minutes
August 2011 Annual Meeting of the Membership
August 7, 2011 Executive Committee Meeting
August 14, 2011 Executive Committee Meeting

Below is a list of the rated referees (from the US Fencing Referee Database) who are members of Capitol Division (2022-08-04).

The Referees’ Commission has realigned referee ratings to match requirements for local, regional and national events. Moving away from the current ratings of P for having passed exams in a particular weapon, and the 10 – 1 scale — with the lower number representing the higher level of the referee — the new rating scale is:

P – Passed the appropriate exams for that weapon
L2 – Beginning referee working at local level events
L1 – Referee with demonstrated competency to work higher level local events
R2 – Referee with demonstrated competency to work at regional level events
R1 – Referee with demonstrated competency to work higher levels at regional events
N2 – Referee with demonstrated competency to work national Level events
N1 – Referee with demonstrated competency to work highest level national events

Note: R1 rated referees are eligible for selection to referee at national events, depending on tournament needs.

N2 and N1 ratings will be awarded during the annual Referees’ Commission meeting.

Chairperson

Nick Ferrara (nf.capdiv@gmail.com)

Vice-Chairperson

Arnold Wynn (arnold@wynnempire.com)

Secretary

Bettie Graham (eddie31@rcn.com)

Treasurer

Fen Tamulonis (robofen@gmail.com)

Members at Large:

Valerie Asher (vaasher@aya.yale.edu)

Elliott Clinton (elliott@capfencing.com)

Raymond Finkleman (fencer@fencer.com)

Representatives of the member clubs

Phil Keefer, CAPITAL (pekeefer@outlook.com)

Matthew Moore, CCFC (mdmoore23@gmail.com)

Byron Neslund, DCFC (bjn225@nyu.edu)

Galina Rakityanskaya, INVICTA - (galinarinvicta@gmail.com)

Jill Feldman, NAZLYMOV - (jill_feldman@hotmail.com)

TJ Safai, ROYALFA (tsafai@yahoo.com)

Sean Fitzgerald, TERRAPIN (president@umdfencing.com)

Hunter Higgison, GWFC (hhiggison@gmail.com)

Malcolm Patterson, RFA (mdpatterson@gmail.com)

George King, NCFC (ncfcsaber@gmail.com)