We have the following events happening this weekend:

• Saturday 24/05/2025 – NSWSFL Foil Team Premiership – U14 Teams Round 1 @ SBHS Great Hall
• Saturday 24/05/2025 – NSWSFL U16 Ind Epee Round 2 (Pool + DE + Medal Ceremony) @ St Andrew’s Cathedral School

Please check the 2025 Results page for details on fencers, refs, mentors and start times:
https://sbhsfencing.com/2025-results/

Clipboard has been updated with the rolls for Saturday.

For all events, please aim to arrive 60 minutes earlier than your start time so that you can check in with the DT, get your name marked off the Clipboard roll with your coach, and warm up sufficiently before your first official bout. Get on the pistes early for warm up bouts before it gets crowded!

We wish our fencers all the best for this weekend!
Please contact me if there are any issues or questions.

Cheers,
Mr Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

We have the following events happening this weekend:

• Saturday 17/05/2025 – NSWSFL Epee Individual Premiership – U14 Pools Round 1 @ Barker College
• Saturday 17/05/2025 – NSWSFL Foil Team Premiership – U16 Teams Round 1 @ St Aloysius’ College

Please check the 2025 Results page for details on fencers, refs, mentors and start times:
https://sbhsfencing.com/2025-results/

Clipboard has been updated with the rolls for Saturday.

For all events, please aim to arrive 60 minutes earlier than your start time so that you can check in with the DT, get your name marked off the Clipboard roll with your coach, and warm up sufficiently before your first official bout. Get on the pistes early for warm up bouts before it gets crowded! Referees/helpers are to check in with the DT 30 minutes before the start time.

We wish our fencers all the best for this weekend!
Please contact me if there are any issues or questions.

Cheers,
Mr Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

We have the following events happening this weekend:

• NSWSFL Epee Individual Premiership – U16 Pools Round 1 @ SBHS
• NSWSFL Foil Team Premiership – U19 Teams Round 2 @ SICR
• NSWFA Intermediate AJ Rae Team Competition @ Sydney Beyond Fencing Club

Please check the 2025 Results page for details on fencers, refs, mentors and start times:
https://sbhsfencing.com/2025-results/

Clipboard has been updated with the rolls for Saturday.

For all competitions, please aim to arrive 60 minutes earlier than your start time so that you can check in with the DT, get your name marked off the Clipboard roll with your coach, and warm up sufficiently before your first official bout. Get on the pistes early for warm up bouts before it gets crowded! Referees/helpers are to check in with the DT 30 minutes before the start time.

For NSWFA events, the organisers are asking fencers to bring school photo ID and ensure your equipment meets the minimum safety standards for NSW competitions. Roll call cut off is strictly 30 minutes before the start time. More info can be found here:
https://nswfencing.org.au/public/schedule/events/72924-2025-ra-white-aj-rae-intermediate-teams

We wish our fencers all the best for this weekend!

Cheers,
Mr Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

From Bill Ronald:
“Hi Participant Schools personnel of the NSWSFL Epee League

After the Australian Fencing Federation finally announced the full details of the National Championship schedule (17 to 20/05/2025), we now have a very bad clash with the AFF Men’s Epee Individual and the second round of our U19 competition. Many of the top Schools League epeeists are involved in both.

Sadly the conflicts of events with our long-established program and dates continue to arise and are beyond our control. We are sorry for any inconvenience these changes will cause but they are made in the best interests of our schools’ fencers – the very reason for our league.”

The updated NSWSFL Epee schedule has the following changes/swap to avoid this conflict:

• T2, Week 3 (17/05/2025): U14 Ind 2 rounds of pools @ BARK
• T2, Week 5 (31/05/2025): U19 Ind pools + DE Finals @SACS

I have updated the Google calendar and will schedule clipboard events accordingly.

Please let me know if there are any issues or questions.

Cheers,
Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

We have the following events happening this weekend:

• NSWSFL Foil Premiership fixture – U19 Teams Round 1 @ BARK
• NSWSFL Epee Premiership fixture – U19 Individual Pools Round 1 @ SAC
• NSWFA Intermediate Roberta Nutt Individual Competition @ Sydney Beyond Fencing

Please check the 2025 Results page for details on fencers, refs, mentors and start times:
https://sbhsfencing.com/2025-results/

Clipboard has been updated with the rolls for Saturday.

For all competitions, please aim to arrive 60 minutes earlier than your start time so that you can check in with the DT, get your name marked off the Clipboard roll with your coach, and warm up sufficiently before your first official bout. Referees are to check in with the DT 30 minutes before the start time.

We wish our fencers all the best for this weekend!

Cheers,
Mr Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

Holiday training has been scheduled for the following sessions:

Wednesday 16/04/2025
3pm to 5pm: Squad Training

Wednesday 23/04/2025
12:30pm to 2:30pm: Development Training
3pm to 5pm: Squad Training

Coaching resources have been allocated and Mr Huynh will be supervising. We encourage our fencers to stay active over the holiday break for their physical and mental health, and for Squad Fencers to prepare for the upcoming competition season.

Please let me know if there are any issues or questions.
Cheers,
Mr Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

Hi Squad Fencers,

To participate in the NSWFA school competitions next term, you will need to pay for NSWFA membership ($30 this year) and complete the Google form (sent to your school email) so I can submit your entries for the events:

Please make sure you complete this task by Wednesday 16/04/2025 so I can submit your competition entry forms on the school’s behalf.

Please feel free to contact me if there are any issues or questions.

Cheers,
Mr Dat Huynh

Hi all,

The SBHS Fencing Supporters’ Committee Meeting has been scheduled for Thursday 10/04/2025 at 7:30pm online using Zoom.

The Zoom meeting link will be posted on ZSapp (Fencing Group) and sent to parent and student contact emails.

Please find the agenda attached below for your information:

I encourage all parents and supporters who want to know more about the program and wish to get involved with plans and events for this year’s season to attend. I look forward to seeing you then!

Please let me know if there are any issues or questions.

Cheers,
Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

Hi all,

We’ve had a busy start to the season with record number of returning fencers to our program. We welcome our newest fencers who are joining us for their first season.

Squad selection is ongoing this week as we conduct trials during the after school sessions. Thank you for your patience as we make changes and updates to the Clipboard schedule to accommodate the trials with limited coaching staff availability this coming Monday. We are aiming to have Squad selection finalised by the end of Thursday’s sports session.

The U16 Foil Friendly hosted at SAC on Saturday was a huge success – we used this event as a trial run for managing the upcoming competition fixtures next term (with thanks to Kevin Chen’s (’21) inaugural role as DT in training, under the valuable mentoring of Edwin Lapitan (SAC)). The event ran relatively smoothly with 35 fencers participating and 6 schools represented. Congratulations to our U16 Foil fencers who achieved outstanding results – highlights and shoutout to Jeremy Yan for placing 1st and Jentzen Lim for placing 2nd in the event. Full results can be found on the ‘Results’ page.

Regarding Fencing T-shirts – we are in the process of finalising the payment process as this item is organised by the Fencing Committee and not the High Store. Please do not contact the High Store to inquire about the Fencing shirt. We will post an update soon when the payment system is set up and ready for orders.

The Fencing Supporters Meeting will also be scheduled soon (aiming for 6pm Thursday in week 11) so please keep an eye out for updates during the week.

Thanks for your patience and support as we gear up for a busy season ahead. Please feel free to contact me if there are any issues or questions.

Best regards,
Dat Huynh
MIC Fencing

Hi all,

Edwin from St Aloysius’ College (SAC) has invited us to participate in a friendly U16 Individual Foil event this coming Saturday, hosted at SAC. Barker and St Ignatius are also invited. This event is planned to run from 8am to 12pm.

As we have not yet finalised our U16 foil squad selection, I am opening this up to all U16 Foil fencers who wish to participate on a first come first serve basis. This event is free and would be valuable experience for our younger foilists to get ready for competition season next term.

If you wish to fence in this event, please make sure you complete the Google form by Wednesday sport time (1pm) so that I can relay info to Edwin and organise coaches and staff supervision.

The google form link can be found here (only fill it in if you are an U16 Foil fencer):
https://forms.gle/e6i8X6FRnKqfANFv8

More information will be provided soon.
Please keep an eye on your student email for direct comms with selected students.

Cheers,
Mr Huynh