OLL Fencing Service Project - 3/15/15

Hello All,

Our OLL Fencing Team Community Service Project is Scheduled for Sunday, March 15, 2015.


This is a required activity for all the fencers on the team. We will spend March 15th at the Super Stop & Shop located at the BJ's Plaza in Wappingers on Route 9, from 10:00am to 2:00pm. 


We will gather before 10:00am and collect food for St. Columba Food Pantry located in Hopewell Junction. The food will be delivered by us to the food pantry right after we pack our cars. We will need several parents with pick up trucks or vans to help deliver the food. The fencers will help deliver and unload all the food at the St. Columba food pantry afterward.


I will supply a sign up schedule for the team. Fencers can sign up for 2 hour shifts. Either from 10:00 to 12:00 or from 12:00 to 2:00pm.  They can also stay the entire 4 hours if they need the volunteer hours for the National Honor's Society. 


Please put this activity on your schedule! Hopefully, we will have a successful day. The fencing team has raised over $2000 dollars of food for local food pantries each year. Plus we won the overall best community service project for OLL sports teams for the past 2 years! So let's do it again! If you have any questions, please email me.


Thank you,
Dana Bortz
For Shannon & Alex 

Week of 2/16/15 and end of season dinner date announced

Good afternoon Everyone,

 

As we finish up our regular season, I would like to take this opportunity to first let everyone know how great of a season we had.  We finished the season with our boys epee team and girls foil team in 2nd place in sections, our girls epee team in 4th place and boys foil team in 5th place.  We as well had 3 all section fencers, congratulations to Sarah Acevedo, Chris Amalathas and Nina Acevedo.

 

This coming week we will be having practice on Tuesday but will not be having practice on Thursday due to honor band rehearsal in the cafeteria.

 

Also, coming up in March, once the incoming freshman for next year have officially been registered we can begin having open gyms, this will give us the opportunity to welcome new team members and begin their training.

 

Our end of season dinner is set for Saturday March 21st at 6:00 at Copolla's on route 9 in Poughkeepsie which is the same place as last year.  I will get more details in the upcoming week regarding the dinner.

 

We will be continuing with every Saturday fencing at Peekskill Fencing Center from 11:30 - 2:30 this is a great opportunity to improve on your skills and stay in shape for next season.  We are also looking at having a meet with Chappaqua in April, more details will follow on that as well.

 

Again, thank you everyone for a wonderful season, we would like to say this is not the end but the beginning of better things to come.

 

Sincerely,

 

Shannon and Alex

Week of February 9

As we prepare for another snow filled week, I would like to take the time to first let everyone know how very proud we are of our team.  We have had a great season and even though our Super Saturday tournaments are done, we will continue with our regular weekly practices through February.  

This coming Wednesday, we will be having a meet against Storm King School after school at Lourdes in the small gym. Please be sure to bring all your gear to school that day as well as your team shirts and socks.  The meet will begin approximately at 3:00 so please be sure to head straight to the gym after school to help set up.

 

We will also be continuing practicing every Saturday at Peekskill Fencing and this includes in the off season, as we have said before almost every team we faced in the league fences all year long so please try to join us as much as you can.

 

We have also been given permission to hold open gyms at school for fencing, at which time we will be welcoming any incoming freshman who may be interested in fencing with us next season.  It would be great to have our experienced team at theses open gyms to welcome and help teach our new members about fencing.

 

In the upcoming week hopefully I will have dates for you regarding our service project and our team dinner.

 

Enjoy the snow and stay safe and warm,

 

Shannon and Alex