Where are they now: Fairfield stars continue to shine!

Lee London and his mom Diane.  Lee earned his “C” rating in saber while fencing at Fairfield.  Although he got injured at almost every major national tournament, he greatly enjoyed competing with our team.  Lee went to college to become a pilot and is now a professional pilot and is married.

Dorothy Hubbard went on to fence varsity epee at
Duke University and she earned her “A” rating

John-Henry Crawford (fenced at Fairfield for 5 years) studies cello at The Curtis Institute in Philadelphia:
"This year has been a whirlwind of classes, rehearsals, coachings, lessons, and the occasional bite to eat. Curtis does a great job of salvaging every drop of time available from each student to bring out their best, musically speaking.  Curtis has a "Learn by doing" philosophy, so students get to squeeze oceans of musical activity into each day. For me, this has been slightly more complicated because I am still finishing up high school in addition to Curtis; however, its safe to say that the best is yet to come because after high school I can focus 100% on music."

All the best!
-John-Henry Crawford

Philip Hand attends La Tech, Doug Smith is a cameraman for films in the Shreveport area, Josh Steed attends La Tech

Luke Addison attends Virginia Tech

Payne Hennigan (fenced foil and epee with Andy for 7 years) will be attending Boston College beginning 2010-2011 academic year. 

Christian Harrison is attending Baylor University.  Christian traveled from Tyler, TX every week for fencing classes.
 

Diana Hock will be fencing varsity foil at the Airforce Academy

Amanda Foy is attending Tulane University

It's my second year in the Tulane Honors program with a double major in math and Spanish. I'm fencing with Tulane and occasionally NOFC, and I'm the drummer for a local band called Curie.

Michelle Khare is attending Dartmouth

Chris Hirsch now attends Louisiana Tech

Philip Hand is at Louisiana Tech and Michael Phillips is at Stanford University

 

Courtney Everest fenced epee and foil.
She is now attending Hendrix College in Arkansas.  She
  spent a year studying in Bulgaria and just returned from a semester in India.

Andrea Lin studied saber at Fairfield and is headed
to the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia
which was chartered in 1693.

My name is Noam Platt. I am currently a student at Louisiana State University, studying architecture, doing internships and working towards graduation. I started fencing with Andy Shaw in the 7th grade at Southfield School along with many of my friends.

what fencing has done for me:
When a duel occurs, and you look the other person in the eye right before the referee yells "fence!" you discover something about yourself. Your engagment in an age-old form of combat, even if its just for sport, lets you look inside your soul and discover who you really are, and what you can become. Fencing has given me physical and mental confidence to evaluate and take on life's many challenges. It has enabled me to compete at a national level at many tournaments, where countless relationships have been formed. I have gained friendship, trust, and maturity through studying the art of fencing.

John Burford learned to fence with Andy while attending Southfield School in the 7th grade. He now fences on the Princeton University Epee team.   (John is kneeling far right.)

William Hock, a starter on the U.S. Air Force Academy foil team shown during the 2008-09 season. William started fencing at Fairfield while attending Caddo Middle Magnet.

Elise Ackley dominated the women in our division with multiple titles. She now attends Millsaps College.

Daniel Ewing won the State Highschool Epee title 3 times and also won multiple division titles. He is now the co-captain of the Centenary College Fencing team