Congratulations to you and especially her. Amazing achievementSome of you may recall that I used to coach a young Russian girl named Dasha who is a Saber fencer. She traveled to events around the US with my family over the past couple of years. Honestly she was too good for me to coach and I brought in other, better, coaches to help her.
I just got off the phone with her and I can't even begin to contain my excitement.
Dasha will be one of 3 Notre Dame women's saber fencers going to the NCAA Championships. At this point I don't know if she is going as the Alternate or as one of the 2 competitors. I just know she is going.
NCAA rules require that only fencers who win at least 20 bouts can qualify for the Championships. She easily did that. But NCAA also only allows a maximum of 2 fencer from any school to compete. Dasha is only a freshman. Notre Dame qualified 5 of their Women's Saber fencers to attend. But can only take 3 women's saber fencers, 2 to compete + 1 as an alternate, which is the maximum allowed. Dasha is only a freshman on the team but is one of those 3 fencers. We find out later this week if she is the alternate or one of the competitors.
FWIW, most of the teams cannot qualify 2 fencers, many of the teams cannot qualify even 1 fencer. Notre Dame qualified 5 for NCAAs but only 3 get to go. So the competition at this level is amazing. I know that one of the 3 is a 2 time ACC Champion. Another of the 3 is a member of the US World Team (1 step below the US Olympic team). The 3rd member is Dasha. So we wait until later this week to find out if she is a competitor or an alternate.
Below is Dasha with one of my dogs over her last school break. She will be back home with us for Easter. But she goes into NCAA quarantine tomorrow morning and stays there until after the competition.
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Good you are getting it fixed, looks like more cold coming.Great day for a furnace install. (Although it could have been much worse.) I'm already in my sweats and long johns. They'll be here at 8.
Eh, I can't say I'd ever costume up to the range (I also said I would never own a handgun, haha!), but so long as they're happy and not hurting anyone, then who am I to judge?I'm with chef here. People who show up to a public range to shoot in costume is weird.
Yep, watching it fall from my office now. Shame on me, I took this weekend's weather for granted.SNOW!!! SNOW!!!!
Chiraqi has snow right now.
Yup. Same here.Rain, snow, and ice all falling at the same time currently.
Snowing wa-aay out here too. Coming down pretty good. Not enough to matter for work, hope it stays that way since I'm off for 3 weeks.
The gods of generic avatars or maybe it was the lord's of laziness, rulers of those who don't put forth the effort to change their avatar. Either way, I'll get around to changing eventually.... probably..... maybeHey you gave you permission for a pink background on your avatar.
hey buddy! long time.....
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