1413 Fairfield Avenue,
Shreveport, La 71101
(318) 227-7575
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Welcome to Fairfield Avenue School of Fencing
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Jimmy Noetzel (left) congratulating Michael Dickson at the 2009 Youth-10 Saber Championships

The Fairfield Avenue School of Fencing is dedicated to training fencers in a supportive and respectful surrounding.

We encourage our students to achieve the highest level of success that they desire.

We aid our fencers in defining and redefining their goals during their evolution.

We believe that a good fencing club's duty, among others, is to provide a challenging athletic atmosphere in a physically and emotionally safe environment.

We're not just teaching fencing. We are teaching sportsmanship, caring, problem solving, stress management, the development of intuition and self esteem.

All equipment is supplied free. Call us to schedule a private lesson or just drop in for our Junior Program.

1413 Fairfield Avenue, Shreveport, La 71101

(318) 227-7575 :: Email Andy Shaw


 
Fairfield Fencer of the Year
Congratulations Kyle Berney  - Fairfield Fencer of the year for 2011
 
Photo coming soon
 
 


 

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Recent Highlights

2012 Louisiana State High School Championship Results


Waverly Hock wins LA State High School foil title again 15-8

Connor Bass takes silver medal in saber.

Kyle Berney takes the bronze in saber.

Sabrina Mashburn and Sarah Jayne Driskill
both take bronze in LA State High School Epee title match.

Hammond Lake takes the gold in foil


Emily Pierce wins 2011-12 Louisiana State High School Epee Title
for 3rd time in a row!



 

 

Ark-La-Miss Regional Junior Olympics 2010 - 2011 Results

 Fairfield had 51 fencers entered in 85 events.

21 of our students will go on to compete for a national ranking at the U.S. Jr. Olympics in Dallas over the Presidents' Day weekend in 29 events  (those who are heading to the nationals are in red)

 

Dalton Baker 8th saber, 5th saber Home School
Montana Baker 7th foil Home School
Connor Bass  Q 6th saber, Q 3rd saber Magnet HS
Nate Beck 6th epee, 14th epee Magnet HS
Kyle Berney 13th foil, Q 3rd saber, 13 saber Magnet HS
Carter Brown 20 foil Southfield
Terry Buckley 8 foil Home School
Witt Caldwell 12 foil Loyola
Hayden Craig Q 5foil Loyola
Vangie Crosby 12 foil Magnet HS
Wesley Davis 10 foil Loyola
Chris Dawson Q 4 saber, Q 3 epee, 6 foil Louisiana Tech
SarahJayne Driskill Q 3 epee, 10 epee Magnet HS
Gregory Ewing 9 epee Centenary
Cade Feliciano 16 foil St. Joseph
Danny Felty 15 saber, 10 foil Magnet HS
Kent Felty 18 foil Southfield
Gerhardt Funk Q 5 epee Centenary
Matthew Gieseke 19 foil Magnet HS
Alex Gras 11 saber Loyola
John Hawley 12 saber Loyola
Waverly Hock Q 1 foil, Q 2 foil Magnet HS
Tessie Horan 7 epee C Middle Magnet
Samantha Hunt 10 epee Magnet HS
Christian Johansen Q 3 foil, 7 foil Airline HS
Jakarri Kent 15 foil Youree Middle
Chris Johnson 5 foil, 8 epee,  Magnet HS
Madeline Khare Q 4 foil Magnet HS
Michelle Khare Q 1 foil Dartmouth College
Andrea Labor 4 saber Centenary
Delaney Lake Q 3 foil, Q 3 foil Magnet HS
Hammond Lake Q 2 foil, Q 2 foil, Q 4 epee, 6epee Magnet HS
Henry Lin Q 2 saber, 9 saber Magnet HS
Jackson Little 7 epee Captain Shreve
Aidan Long 11 epee Magnet HS
Grace Long 8 epee Southfield
Sabrina Mashburn 6 epee, 9 epee Southfield
Phillip Mathis 8 saber, 7 saber, 8 foil, 9 foil Magnet HS
Eleni Mijalis Q saber, Q 2 saber Magnet HS
Zac Mills Q 1 epee, 7 epee Loyola
David Newtown Q 2 epee, 16 epee, 9 foil, 14 foil Magnet HS
Emily Pierce Q 2 epee, Q 1 epee Magnet HS
Gil Platt 13 epee Southfield
Brendan Pumphrey 10 foil C. Middle Magnet
Evelyn Rimer 12 epee Loyola
Laura Sorkey Q 4 epee, 9 epee Magnet HS
Austin Toys 10 saber C. Middle Magnet
Isabelle Vea  4 foil Magnet HS
Bregon Webb Q 3 epee, 10 epee, 5 saber, 6 saber, Magnet HS
Abby Weinberger Q 2 foil, 10 foil Magnet HS
Alden Woods Q 5 foil, 9 foil, 11 epee, 7 epee Magnet HS


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Where are they now?

 

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.



Michelle Thomas and Mrs. Thomas at Jr. Olympic qualifiers
 

 


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


Hannah and Bradford Johnson both trained at Fairfield and now they are both at the University of Tulsa.
Their dad, Neil Johnson took the photo.
 

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


Kira Colvin won the Ark-La-Miss Under 17 Saber title while she attended Magnet

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. 


Mark Miller is attending Purdue University

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

 
 
Anvesh Kompelli is attending Hendrix College

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

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Insun Chong is attending Duke University
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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.

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

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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.

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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.)

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Abbey Stockstill, the valedictorian of her senior class in High School, at the University of Pennsylvania. She drove from Monroe, Louisiana each Saturday for saber lessons and ended up a qualifier for the US Junior Olympics. She is the first student from Neville High School to enter the Ivy League.
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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.

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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

 
Patrick Mooney is a student at LSU. H e learned to fence with Andy at Southfield School and went on to win 5 Jr. Olympic titles in our division.

Clara Caruthers is a student at Stanford University. She studied with Andy while attending Caddo Middle Magnet and she was the Cadet Foil champion for the Arkansas, Louisiana & Mississippi region.
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Remembering Ben Pounds
BenPounds01small.jpg Fairfield Fencing's Ben Pounds lost his life in a traffic accident in 2008. Ben, who had been working at Libby Glass, was a saber fencer who was instrumental in digitizing a significant portion of the archives for the Museum of American Fencing.   His kindness and generosity will always be with us.

 

 


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Fairfield Avenue School of Fencing
1413 Fairfield Avenue, Shreveport, La 71101
(318) 227-7575
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