Palm Desert Open at College of the Desert
November 11 - 12 2006
Registration closes November 8, 2006
Online Payments Not Accepted
The second annual Palm Desert Open promises to be an exciting tournament in the Pacific Coast Section Senior Circuit. This year, sabre is included. For women, only results of womens' competitions count for senior circuit points.
Registration closes November 8, 2006
Wright Gymnasium at College of the Desert
43500 Monterey Avenue, Palm Desert, CA USA
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Online Payments Not Accepted
The second annual Palm Desert Open promises to be an exciting tournament in the Pacific Coast Section Senior Circuit. This year, sabre is included. For women, only results of womens' competitions count for senior circuit points.
Note This is a Old AskFRED event. Registrations and results are all correct, but some other data could be missing.
The second annual Palm Desert Open promises to be an exciting tournament in the Pacific Coast Section Senior Circuit. This year, sabre is added. For women, only results of womens' competitions count for senior circuit points.
If you need to reach someone during the tournament, call
Leslie Taft (760) 218 1343 or Midi Cox (858) 922 8112.
Please plan to register at the tournament. You can get the registration form at the tournament website:
http://www.desertfencingacademy.com/palmdesertopen/
and click on "Register Now" at the top for the entry form.
Events Scheduled:
Senior Women's Epee 11:00 a.m. Sunday, November 12
Senior Women's Foil 11:00 a.m. Saturday, November 11
Senior Women's Saber 1:00 p.m. Saturday, November 11
Senior Mixed Epee 9:00 a.m. Saturday, November 11
Senior Mixed Foil 9:00 a.m. Sunday, November 12
Senior Mixed Saber 1:00 p.m. Sunday, November 12
Preregistration opens on 10/01/2006.
Preregistration closes on 11/09/2006.
Full information about the venue, hotels and shuttles (both from the airport to the hotel and hotel to the venue) can be found on the tournament website.
The Palm Desert Open is served by the Palm Springs Airport. A free shuttle between the airport and the host hotel and between the hotel and the venue is offered for fencers who have completed their entries. With your entry information, the shuttles between the hotel and venue can be scheduled for fencers by competition; additionally we will have the information needed to arrange the airport shuttles.
The host hotel for the tournament is the Palm Desert Holiday Inn Express. This hotel is full. Lower priced hotels are 20 minutes away in Palm Springs or Cathedral City. You can use any search engine to find them, or http://www.sidestep.com/hotel/ to search all of them.
There is plenty of free parking at the venue.
The gym is fully airconditioned. On the weekends there is a flea market/swap meet in the college parking lot with interesting items for sale and excellent food.