Illinois Division Summer National Qualifiers

The Venue is Patten Gymnasium, on the North end of Northwestern University's campus, at 2407 Sheridan Road, Evanston IL. On the corner of Lincoln and Sheridan. There is limited parking in Parking lot 109, abundant parking in the Parking Garage connected to the Ryan Fieldhouse, and plenty of street parking. The entrance will be the side service door via parking lot 109. There is no seating provided in Patten Gymnasium and spectator space is limited, so please plan accordingly. The Facility is fully climate controlled and water filling stations available. There will be no concessions, or equipment vendors on site. There are food options within walking distance.

Event Date: April 7h

Event Fee Schedule:

Regular Fee Close of Registration April 1st $30 per event

Late Fee Close of Registration via Walk-in $40 per event.

All payments may be made via Cash, Check, or CC (no AMEX). Payments will be collected at check-in.

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Events Scheduled:

Y14 Women's Foil 9am

Y14 Women's Saber 9am

C & Under Senior Men's Div 2 & 3 Qualifier Epee 9am

Y14 Men's Epee 10:30am

C & Under Senior Women's Div 2 & 3 Qualifier Foil 10:30am

C & Under Senior Women's Div 2 & 3 Qualifier Saber 10:30am

Y14 Men's Saber 12noon

C & Under Senior Men's Div 2 & 3 Qualifier Foil 12noon

C & Under Senior Women's Div 2 & 3 Qualifier Epee 12noon

Y14 Men's Foil 1:30pm

Y14 Women's Epee 1:30pm

C & Under Senior Men's Div 2 & 3 Qualifier Saber 1:30pm

Preregistration opens on 02/22/2024.

Regular Fee Preregistration closes on 04/1/2024.

Summer Nationals and the July Challenge information can be found here: https://www.usafencing.org/summernationals2024

Summer Nationals and the July Challenge will run from June 28th to July 8th in Columbus, Ohio.

We are only able to use information found in the USA Fencing member database. Found here: https://member.usafencing.org/search/members Any issues regarding the status of your membership (including Division Affiliation, Rating, Birth Years, etc) please contact members services at USA Fencing ASAP. They can be contacted at: information@usafencing.org

You must be a representative of both the Illinois Division and a represent the United States. This is a qualifier to a US National Championship and only eligible for fencers that represent the United States.

Age Categories for 2024 National Championships & July Challenge & Associated Regional & Division Qualifying Competitions Only

Division II

Born 2010 or earlier

C, D, E or U

Division III

Born 2010 or earlier

D, E or U

Youth 14

Born 2009-2012

Day of notifications, please contact Dennis at DWKolakowski@Gmail.com

Events where only one fencer has registered, the fencer must pay the related fee and be physically present at the close of registration for that event.

A Valid USA Fencing Membership (Either Competitive or Access) is needed to compete. You can join or renew your membership here: https://member.usafencing.org

Venue will open 1 hour prior to the first event's close of registration. Events will close registration at the listed check-in times. Please arrive early enough to check-in, warm-up and be ready to start by the close of registration deadline. There will only be on strip equipment check.

Relevant Information from the Athletes Packet:

"2.6.3 Determination of Divisional Qualifiers

Division qualifiers are determined by the qualifying information for various event types. For more information, see Table 2.6.3.1"

"1.2 DIVISION AFFILIATION

A member can declare a division affiliation based on their residence, location of the school that member is attending or location of the primary club that the member will represent in USA Fencing competitions. Each fencing season, a member must declare the division affiliation for that membership year. That division is the one from which the fencer must qualify to the USA Fencing National

Championships. The member may request a change in division if they move to a new geographic location (permanent residence or school) or select a primary club which is located in a different division, and notifies the National Office in writing of the new address and division change request."

"2.6 GENERAL QUALIFYING INFORMATION

2.6.1 Division Qualifiers

Division qualifiers are competitions in which a specified number of fencers, based on their results, qualify to the USA Fencing National Championships and the Junior Olympic Championships.

Division qualifiers are restricted to members of the division for the following events: Y14, Div II and Div III (USA Fencing National Championships) and Cadet and Junior (JOs). Veteran fencers can qualify for USA Fencing National Championships via Division II or Division III division qualifiers. Division qualifying tournaments cannot be mixed gender competitions. Fencers who have earned national points are the only athletes who will be skipped over in the results to determine qualifying athletes. Athletes who have already qualified via a regional path will not be skipped over.

Fencers must be U.S. citizens or Permanent Res- idents. Athletes that have represented another country in the last three years at FIE level competitions (Veteran/Senior/Junior and those athletes that represented another country in the Cadet World Championships) are not eligible to compete in a National Championship, unless the athlete has been officially approved by the FIE to represent the USA. 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.``

Full Athlete Packet can be found here: https://www.usafencing.org/athlete-handbook

As this is a qualifying event, we cannot estimate the number of fencers that will register at the door and therefore cannot estimate duration of events(s).

"2.6.4 Combined Division II/Division III Divisional Qualifier Example

Below is an example of how to determine qualifiers for Division III when the division holds only one competition to determine qualifiers for both Divi- sion II and Division III.

A Division II/III qualifying competition has the following entries:

Number of C fencers = 8

Number of D fencers = 12

Number of E fencers = 11

Number of U fencers = 15

Total number of Fencers = 46

Total number of Division II qualifiers = 12 (based on 46 total C, D, E, and U fencers)

Total number of Division III qualifiers = 10 (based on 38 total D, E, and U fencers)

How to Determine Qualifiers:

• List the fencers in order of their finish.

• The first 12 qualify for Division II and Division III if classification eligible at the start of the event.

• Then count the number of D, E and U fencers. In this example, there are 38 such fencers. The 25% of that group equals 10, the number of fencers who can qualify for Division III Nationals only.

• Starting with the first fencer after those qualified for Division II (in this example, 13th place); count off the next 10 D, E or U fencers who have not already qualified by other paths. These (10) D, E, or U fencers are qualified for Division III. Any C fencers in this range are skipped, but not counted against the 10, because they are not eligible to fence Division III."