WWD Fencing

May 31st 2025, at the WWD Championships

• Alan is stepping down as Chair.
• Unanimous vote electing new board members:
  George Peebles – Chair
  Kim Richards – Vice Chair
  Kevin Mar – Vice Chair
  Sylvie Troxel – Secretary
  Pavel Rozalski – Treasurer
• Financial report was that we roughly broke even this season. We strive to spend money on the best possible referees for all our events, leading to low profitability. But we still have approximately $18k in the bank to carry us onward.

• Attendees: Kevin Mar, George Peebles, Amanda Beaver, Rachel Peterson, Alan Geller Mike Reiter
• Status on JO Qualifiers
  • Events on AskFred
  • Epee at Kaizen
  • Saber at SAS
  • Foil at Rain City
  • 16 / 17 December
• Status of Battle / Coverage
  • Alan working on staff – Armorers, trainer hired; working on refs.
  • There will be some developmental refs as well
  • Alan will be the Bout Committee
  • T Shirts – pre-order only
  • Rachel to order prizes (coffee, french presses, etc)
  • BiS Medals
    • Alan has reached out to some people for a design
    • Mike volunteered to submit some designs
    • Mike to set up the medals once design is agreed upon
• Summer National Qualifiers
  • Alan will propose some dates for this
• Division Championships
  • Alan will propose some dates for this
• Probable Changes Next Season
  • JO Qualifiers may go away at the National Level
  • Some others may also go away
  • Part of the evolving National strategy for tournaments, qualification paths
• Getting people involved at Division level
  • Need to get representation
  • Need to have fresh faces

• WWD annual meeting held June 11,2023 at Salle Auriol.
• Dan Berke stepping down; Alan Geller stepping up to fill his role.
• USFA requires a uniform set of bylaws; we are adopting these.
• We have a Google group for emails.
• Next season, there will be multiple regional events.
• Finances – bank accounts updated; we are stable on funds.
• Board elections – added George Peebles as vice chair – same slate for everyone else. Unanimous voice vote

The meeting took place at Salle Auriol on 6/19/22

• Emerald city club has closed
• New mailing list available -link on division website
• USFA Calendar out for next season including Battle in Seattle, Seattle International Veteran’s Cup, RJCCs. No SYCs locally.
• Same slate of board members with new treasurer – Amanda Beaver
• Financial report: we made a small profit on BIS, and broke even in others, and lost a small amount on championship. We have money in the bank.
• Local tournament planning for next year to start after summer nationals
• USFA to crack down on hair enforcement

June 14, 2020

A recording of the meeting is available here.

• Conducted via video conference call
• 11 people in attendance at the start of the call
• March / April NACs canceled
• Summer Nationals canceled
• Division Qualifiers will not be held
• The WWD Championships have also been canceled
• Waiting to hear from USFA about plans for the next season
• Regional events for the fall are still TBD. USFA may allow organizers to cap event size to conform with local requirements. There will be some guidance on suggested sizes (e.g., if the guidance is 50 people, the event would be capped at 25 competitors)
• Leon Auriol Open has been transferred to Salle Auriol to run; it is likely to be postponed or canceled based on the planned September date
• Battle in Seattle – January – we will need to make provisional plans
• Clubs are looking into best practices for reopening, in accordance with USFA guidelines
• Considering coordinating club re-opening – we encourage clubs to discuss the guidelines amongst themselves
• There will need to be a waiver for people to sign that they understand the risk. Looking for a volunteer lawyer to draft this.
• Considering making use of a COVID safety video.
• Metro Tacoma has created a document for COVID safety and will make that available.
• Financial Report
  • All events were profitable
  • Profits to be reinvested in activities such as referee training
  • Planned expenses believed to be in line with available funds
• Annual Officer Election
  • Chair – Dan Berke
  • Vice – Kevin Mar, Alan Geller, Rachel Peterson
  • Secretary – Mike Reiter
  • Treasurer – Sylvie Troxel
  • No nominations via email
  • Opened to nominations: None made
  • Sylvie Troxel has announced that this is her last year so if people are interested for next year, please let the Board know

• The Division Annual Meeting was held at the Division Championships on June 9, 2019
• Discussed how people hear about local events
• Discussed Facebook and Instagram page
• Discussed the Division mailing list
• Suggestion was made for a division poster to be put up in clubs (we will do that)
• Also discussed web page, asked for volunteers to revamp the site
• Next season, we plan the usual mix of events
• Leon Auriol Open will be at SAS; after this year, Salle Auriol will run it. 
• JO qualifiers at RCFC after Thanksgiving 
• BiS at Rain City in January 
• D2/3 qualifiers at SAS in April
• Championship in June, location tbd 
• Regional events 
  • No Bladefest this year, but there will be an event at RCFC in September 
  • Others in Portland
  • 2 SYC
  • 5 RJCC 
  • Many RYCC
  • Others
• Treasurer – we have money, but less than in the past.  Made $6.28 total at LAO. Made money on the Battle. Smaller events like qualifiers and championships mostly break even. 
• Slate for officers: same as last year. No challengers.  All officers were re-elected by acclamation. 
  • President – Dan Berke
  • Treasurer – Sylvie Troxel
  • Vice – Alan Geller
  • Vice – Rachel Peterson
  • Vice – Kevin Mar
  • Secretary – Michael Reiter

Keyon, a fencer and coach at MTFC, recently suffered a bad fall and had to undergo emergency surgery. MTFC is running a benefit tournament for him on May 25th. Please try to attend to help out a fellow fencer!!
https://askfred.net/Events/moreInfo.php?tournament_id=43622