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xTxMANx said:
is fencing hard to get into??? My school almost had a team, but then said that they couldnt afford it. I think I would enjoy it.
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^^ Paging fencersmom... Your assistance is needed! :cool:

EDIT: Christcorp beat me to it :smile:
 
Ask the ALO

For USNA, BGOs are provided guidance on what each sport's coach is looking for in an athlete. I would imagine that USAFA provides something similar for ALOs.
 
matt:

baseball would have been really difficult to walk onto this year. we recruited a LOT of freshmen, and plus the team's never been really good anyway.... i asked this question after basic and pretty much figured out that it would've been extremely difficult, at least this year, to be a walk on
 
HNeedle said:
matt:

baseball would have been really difficult to walk onto this year. we recruited a LOT of freshmen, and plus the team's never been really good anyway.... i asked this question after basic and pretty much figured out that it would've been extremely difficult, at least this year, to be a walk on
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Thanks. That's what I thought as I was reading the preview for this year. I play 2B, and it looks like the second-baseman is a sophomore and there are two freshman behind him.
Thanks for the info though. Oh well, not playing baseball would probably be best for my GPA :biggrin:
 
For anyone interest in IC sports on this forum (Class of 2013 and beyond). You can go to the academy website under the athletic section. They have an athletic player profile that you can fill out for the different sports. Take the initiative an fill it out and contact them. What do you have to lose. Plus, you'll get your answers 1st hand.

You've heard me say this many times.
The ANSWER is ALWAYS NO if you DON'T ASK!!!!

"Unless the question is; "Do I really have to pay taxes????" LOL!!! :frown: But I think you get my point.
best of luck. mike.....
 
I'm here!

Fencing has both recruits and walk-ons. Everyone will fence at the local tournaments (Falcon Open was on Super Bowl weekend), but there is fence-off for the traveling team. Everyone had to try out for the team but there was a month or so of conditioning before the try-out. As far as I know,all of the recruited fencers made the team. There are some female cadets with little/no experience who were able to land a spot, but I believe all the males had experience, some considerable. I believe most of the traveling fencers had experience at the club level and most hold ratings under the US Fencing Association rules. As I recall there were 100 or so who went to the initial try-out and conditioning. Also, I heard that fencers have the highest cumulative GPA of any of the IC athletes but I am not sure that is really true.

They practice 'most every day from about 2:30-6:30 (or so; I'm not sure of the exact times).

Both fencing twins recently qualified for the NCAA regional qualifiers which are in California (Stanford) first w/e in March. Interestingly, there are two sets of twins on the USAFA fencing team: mine and a pair of female twins from Hawaii.

If you have more questions, please pm me.
 
Fencers at our school are the smartest kids. We usually think of them as the Math team and science club sport. When Indoor track, before practice started, we would see them in the foyer spread out with their books doing homework. I wouldn't argue with the fact that they have the highest GPAs.
 
The 2 high schools I was most familiar with (Mine when I was younger; and my Kids most recently) didn't have fencing. The recent high school; the ones my kids went to, barely had enough students for anything. Plus, the nearest school for competition was 50 miles away, with the 2nd closest school 170 miles away. Plus, they even changed the soccer season until spring so football and soccer didn't compete for players. Then again, football players in their senior year, usually played Iron Man Football. (Played offense AND defense). When you want to play the best, it's hard in a low populated area. Iron man isn't because they were SUPER players; although there were some great all state and nationally recognized players. Iron man was because the talent pool wasn't very large. My son played 4 positions on the football team. I remember one game where 8 of the seniors; out of a 48 minute game; had an average of 3:40 seconds not on the field playing. My high school was real simple. Inner city New Jersey and New York City. We tried to keep knives, guns, chains, and other weapons out of the school. Yea,,,, we're gonna give these kids a sword (Foil). LOL!!! Oh yea, forgot to mention that there was no real correlation in my kid's high school between athletics and academics. Of the 17 IB students in the senior class, 12 of them played one or more sports. 2 of them were recruited athletes to college. Of the rest of the athletes, many took one or more AP class. Yes, we did have some stereotypical "Jocks", but the majority of jocks were your normal "B" student or above. However; of the TOP 5 ranked students in the senior class; the TOP 2 (Tied for #1) were a track and field athlete and a football player. The other 3 in the top 5 ranked also played Soccer and/or swimming. I'm really glad this subject sort of come up, because there's a lot of people with the beliefs of the typical athlete stereotype. Luckily, we are talking about the air force academy where a top 10 university in the country DEMANDS that their applicants/cadets be involved in athletics. Before and during the academy. So it helps promote that athletes can have a brain.
 
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My status online has been candidate and application complete since jan 23rd or so..
2 days ago I overnighted paperwork on my knee surgery and I just got my SAT results back today..1920..a full 200 better than my best overall score..

I hate waiting
 
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