Nationals and medal #1 for Mason Speta

Congrats on Mason  for her Silver medal in D1A today at Nationls ,2012 .

Good luck in Juniors in a few days.

WCF Y and Open at the club - Cam Woods the Champion

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Great day at the WCF Youth and Open events.
More then 75 fencers showed up at Y 11, Y 14 and the Open event.
WCF fencer Cam Woods / on the pick/ won the Open and received $ 100 equipment gift sert .

Good Job to All of the fencers

Summer Nationals,Reno/ Andrea Benatar / Tsanko Hantov

Day 6 and  one more medal.
This time in Y 10 girls.
At hers first ever Nationals, Andrea Benatar placed in the final  and got hers  best result ever..

"I am realy happy for Andrea,Tsanko Hantov said. She was realy ,fealy focused and was fencing realy smart.Great job and great result for her and the club. Concrats.."

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Joe Taylor and Coach Tsanko Hantov

Day 5 and medal # 4 in Reno / Summer Nationlas 2011/ for WCF

Super day for Y 12 boy Joe Taylor. Joe  got a Bronze Medal at  his age groupe.
Great event for the young man.
Congrats to Joe and his familie.

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Junior W Team, Coaches Tsanko Hantov & Iliya Mechkov

 Day 4 at Summer Nationlas  and medal # 3 for the club

Long day for the Junior Team. Great event for all 3 of them and  :SILVER MEDAL.

GREAT JOB GIRLS!!!!!!

Mason Speta , Becca Rose and Eva Niklinska  with coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov

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Mason Speta and coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov at Nationals

Day 3 at Summer Nationals ,Reno 2001 / NAC for Cadets/ and  2-nd medal for Windy City Fencing.
Briliant performance for Mason Speta. Silver medal in Cadets. 15/14  at the final bout after 5 doubles... wooooooow.
"That was Mason's best day ever, Coach Tsanko Hantov said. Solid  fencing at the whole event. She neaded a litel bit of luck for the final  touch, but hei, can't ask for more........"

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Nationals 2011, Tsanko Hantov and Harrison Macrea

 After great day in Juniors ,Harrison Macrea got a medal in Cadet mens epee. Great result for Harry.
He  had to fence 8 DE  bouts  to catch the podium position.
The young man fenced realy ,realy good and lost  only to the guys that placed first and second after all.

On the photo coaches Iliya,Tsanko and Harry.

GREAT JOB HARRY
GREAT JOB WCF

WCF and Coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov on the way to Nationals

 June 30 ,2011

WCF fencers , coaches  Tsanko Hantov  and Iliya Mechkov on the way to Reno ,ready for Summer 2011 Nationals .
The club is sending 26 fencers to compeat in Reno in the next 10 days. Fencers  from the age of 9 to 20 will take a part of the bigest event of the 2010/2011 season.
"I think, coach Tsanko Hantov said, that everyone is ready. We had a great year. All of the kids realy worked hard. We tryed to do it right. Everyone was doing SYC, NAC , Pre-Nationals camps in Chicago and Houston. Lets see what will happend, but I am just positive about it...GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF US "

A few days before the leaving ,the club had a big GOOD LUCK PARTY with all of the fencers and parents.

GO WINDY CITY..

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WCF coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov have run Pre-Nationals camp

Five days intencive fencing camp was run from the WCF coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov. Around 15 fencers from WCF, MCFC, EDL and ISUFC participated at the event.
This was first week  of the two Pre-Nationals weeks for the club.
Tsanko and Iliya have run a lots of footwork, drils,conditioning and bouts.
 The fencers had a lots of fun and a great work out.
Next steap is Houston Mega Camp with Alliance Fencing Academy.
Good luck to all of the fencers.

WCFencing June 18 Tournament

WCF and the coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov are organising the WCF Summer Tournament.
The  events  will be : Y 10, Y 12 and Open Mixed epee.
Come out and join us .
Registration is ave. on Askfred.
Good  Luck to all.

Mason Speta and Tsanko Hantov on the way to NY

WCF Gold Team member Mason Speta  was invited  form NYAC together with   the top 12 High School women epee fencers to fence in a round robin to a DE of 8. Then direct eliminations until they will crown the champion.

The  club is honored to send Mason and coach Tsanko Hantov to New York.

Good Luck Mason

Coach Tsanko Hantov and the WCF at the May 22 tournament

More then 50 fencers compeated at the WCF 2011 Fall Tournament.
Coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov were very happy with the results.Great event for All Y12, Y14 kids as well at the one compeating at the Open event.
David Shindell finaly got his ''C".

On the pics Tsanko Hantov,Iliya Mechkov and the medalists.
For all of the results click here

New Team sweatshirts have arived

2011 WCF team  enjoying the new team sweatshirts.

On the pictures the 2011 Gold team and the coaches Iliya Mechkov and Tsanko Hantov wearing the new  warm up equipment and having fun  :-)

Join Windy City Fencing for a competitive pre-nationals epee camp. June 13-17, 2011

Windy City Fencing , Peoria Fencing Academy and the coaches Tsanko Hantov,Elsayed Emara and Iliya Mechkov will run a competitive camp in Chicago at Menomonee club / home of Windy City/.
Every "C" and up epee rated fencer is welcome to be part of it.
For more info click here.

Summer Session Fencing beginners classes starts soon.

Summer Session will  run June 20 - July 29 at Menomonee club.
This classes  will provide a great introduction to fencing and a forum for more advanced training. We’ll make this class fun as well as educational.Taught by  Tsanko Hantov and  the Windy City coaches.
Click  here  for registration.
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BRONZE TEAM ready to compeat

Bronze Team Windy City Fencers and coaches Tsanko Hantov and Iliya Mechkov ready to  compeat at  the end of  the week.
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Beginners Fencing Camp in Hinsdale , Illinois

Head  coach Tsanko Hantov is running a beginners camp in Hinsdale , Il together with  The Community House of Hinsdale.

The camp  will be from July 11 till July 14 from 9.30 am till noon.
Ages 8 and up.
For  more  info  and how to sing  up click here.

WCF Y 14 Men's Epee Team In Portland

Y14 Men's Team  made  coach Tsanko Hantov very happy getting  silver medals at  the  NAC in Portland.
Click here for the Team results.

Tsanko Hantov and Windy City Fencing featured on VIASPORT

Bulgarian sports website VIASPORT has a nice feature article on Windy City Fencing.  Coach Tsanko Hantov talks about his history in the modern pentathalon, running the club, as well as his wife, who is also a professional athlete.

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