Virginia Div 2025 DIV II/III (VET) and Y14 SN Qualifiers
Registration closes April 23, 2025 — in about about 1 month
Online Payment Required To Register
VA DIV MEMBERS ONLY! VA Division qualifier for USA Fencing National Championships - Y14, Div II and Div III (and Vet)! Held at Elite Fencing Academy in Springfield, VA on April 26th.
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This is the 2025 VA Division qualifier event to the USA Fencing Y14, Div II & III National Championships during Summer Nationals (6/28 - 7/7) in Milwaukee, WI. You must complete your registration AND pre-pay all entry fees by Thursday, April 23rd, 2025 at midnight. Sorry, no exceptions will be made on or after April 23rd, 2025.
All Y14 events are CURRENTLY scheduled for 9:30AM
All Div 2/3 events are CURRENTLY scheduled for 1:30PM.
Once registration closes on April 23rd at midnight, we will determine which events will be held and make any necessary changes to the start times based on total number of registrations and strips required.
- Events with three or fewer PAID registrations after the close of registration WILL NOT BE HELD. All fencers with PAID registrations for those events will automatically qualify.
- ONCE THE REGULAR REGISTRATION PERIOD HAS PASSED, WE CANNOT PROCESS ANY REFUND REQUESTS.
- Some of your fencers may already be qualified for SN and will not need to compete in this event. Please read this article from USA Fencing to figure this out!
Virginia Division Members Only!!! A member can declare a Division affiliation based on his or her residence, the location of the school that the member is attending, or the location of the club that the member will represent in USA Fencing competitions. Each year a member must declare the Division affiliation for that membership year. That Division is then the one from which the fencer must qualify for the USA Fencing National Championships and the Junior Olympic Fencing Championships.
Number of Qualifiers for Junior Olympic Fencing Championships and USA Fencing National Championships from Division Qualifying Competitions (25% rule)
# Competitors 1 2 3-12 13-16 17-20 21-24 25-28
# Qualifiers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
[BOD, October 2003]
Important note: Fencers must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents of the United States. Any fencer who is a citizen or permanent resident, who has also represented another country in the last three years, in any FIE (Senior or Junior) and/or Union International de Pentathlon Monderne (UIPM) event, and who has not yet been granted permission to represent the USA by USA Fencing and the FIE is not eligible for any USA Fencing National Championship competition, individual or team, including division qualifying competitions. A foreign fencer who is in the United States on a visa is NOT eligible to fence in any National Championships, individual or team, or associated division qualifying competitions. If an athlete has a Green Card, a copy of this card should be brought to the event as part of check in.
Finally, registration for this tournament automatically grants consent to the above statements from the Virginia Division of USA Fencing, LLC, without recourse or question.
Preregistration opens on 1/4/2025
Preregistration closes on 4/23/2025.