Brentwood School hosted this year’s Junior Olympic Qualifier on November 9, 2025.

Fencers who placed in the top 25% of their event earned the opportunity to compete at the 2026 Junior Olympic Championships, which will take place January 9–12 in Kansas City, Missouri.

All medalists (pictured below) qualified for the 2026 Junior Olympic Championships. In addition, several fencers received automatic qualification in events that were not contested due to low entry numbers:

• Cadet Women’s Épée: Josephine Graziano (BHFC), Skyler Kennedy (SBFC), and Layla Raptis (Swords)
• Cadet Women’s Saber: Alessandra Shackleford (AGFC), Sabrina Johnston (SBFA), and Arya Panchal (SBFA)

You can view the full results here.

Congratulations to all our qualified fencers, and best of luck in Kansas City!

Twenty-three SoCal fencers qualified at the JO Qualifier on Saturday for the 2025 Junior Olympic Championships to be held on February 14-17 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Congratulations to all our qualified fencers and good luck in North Carolina!

Qualified fencers are listed below. For full results, go here.

Qualified Fencers – Men

Qualified Fencers – Women

SoCal medalists are listed below. For full results, go here. For past results check out our Results Archive.

SoCal Medalists

Ninety fencers from across Southern California made their way to the tennis courts at Calabasas High School on Saturday for this year’s combined Junior Olympic and Summer National Qualifier Tournament. Sixty-five fencers qualified for Junior, Cadet, Division II and Division III events at the Junior Olympics and Summer Nationals to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from July 3-12, 2021. In addition, 13 fencers earned new ratings.

Congratulations to all our qualified fencers and good luck in Philadelphia!

Qualified fencers are listed below. Full results can be found, here.

Qualified Fencers (updated 5/25/2021)

SoCal fencers returned from this year’s Junior Olympic Championships in Columbus, Ohio, with medals in five epee events: three individual and two team. The Swords Women’s Epee Team bested 16 other teams to bring home the gold, while the LAIFC Men’s Epee Team finished ahead of 43 other teams to earn the Silver medal in their event.

Congratulations to all our Junior Olympic medalists!

SoCal medalist are listed below. For full results, see here.

SoCal Medalists

The 2019-2020 Junior Olympic Qualifier was held on December 1, 2019 on the campus of Pasadena City College. Eighteen men and 10 women qualified for the 2020 Junior Olympic Championships, which will be held in Columbus, Ohio, February 14-17, 2020.

Essentially the National Championships for under-20 fencers, the Junior Olympics have been held every year, usually over the President’s Day weekend, since 1972.

Qualified fencers are listed below. For full results, see here.

Qualified Fencers - Men

Qualified Fencers - Women

One fourth of all the individual gold medals handed out at this year’s Junior Olympic Championships in Denver, Colorado (Feb. 15-18, 2019) were won by fencers from the Southern California Division.

The newly crowned Junior Olympic Champions from Southern California are: Mikaela Avakian (WCFA), who won the gold in Cadet Women’s Saber; Bryce Louie (LAIFC), who took first place in Cadet Men’s Foil, and Stephen Ewart, who won the Junior Men’s Epee event for the second year in a row!

Other medalist include Claire Beddingfield (LAIFC), who took 7th in Junior Women’s Epee, and Matthew Limb (AGFC), who finished 8th in Cadet Men’s Saber.

SoCal medalist are listed, below. Full results can be found here.

SoCal Medalists

Photos courtesy of Kathryn Atwood. If you have photos of SoCal fencers doing well that you would like to share, please contact web admin.

Graydon Schulze-Kalt (right, LAIFC) makes an attack against Julian Amico (UFA) in the Junior Men’s Foil event at the Junior Olympic Qualifier in Pasadena.

The Southern California Division’s annual Junior Olympic Qualifier was held at the Hutto-Patterson Gym on the campus of Pasadena City College on Sunday, December 2, 2018. Junior (under 20) and Cadet (under 17) fencers who finished in the top 25% in their events qualify for the Junior Olympic Championships to be held in Denver, Colorado, February 15-18, 2019. The Men’s Epee title at the 2018 Junior Olympic Championships was won by SoCal’s own Stephen Ewart.

Congratulations to all our qualified fencers and good luck in Denver!

Note: Several items were left in the gym after the tournament: 2 epees, 4 body cords, a mask cord, and a tool kit. Please contact Tigran Shaginian if you believe that any of these items may be yours.

Qualified fencers are listed below. For complete results, see here.

Qualified Fencers - Girls

Qualified Fencers - Boys

Stephen Ewart (Swords/Notre Dame) clinched the Junior Men’s Epee title on Saturday when he defeated number-1 ranked Junior Jonathan Piskovatskov in the finals. This is Stephen’s third gold medal from a national competition in just five months.

Two days after winning the bronze in Cadet Women’s Epee, Claire Beddingfield (LAIFC) captured gold in the Junior event. Claire’s victory marks the third year in a row that the Junior Women’s Epee title went to an LAIFC fencer (Kasia Nixon won in 2016 and 2017). Last October, Claire brought home gold from the Cadet World Cup in Klagenfurt, Austria, beating number-1 seed Eszter Muhari of Hungary in the finals.

The third gold medal went to the LAIFC Women’s Epee Team, who trounced their opponents in every match by a margin of 13 points or more.

Congratulations to all of our Junior Olympians!

SoCal medalists are listed below. Full results can be found here.

SoCal Medalists

Cadet Women’s Epee medalists. 3rd place: Claire Beddingfield (top row, 3rd from left). 6th place: Irene Yeu (bottom row, 2nd from left).

Olivia Chiang (left, AGFC) scores against Emily Yee (D’Asaro) in Junior Women’s Saber action at the 2017 Junior Olympic Qualifier in Thousand Oaks.

Twenty-nine SoCal fencers qualified for the 2018 Junior Olympic Championships at this year’s JO Qualifier at the Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks on Saturday. The Junior Olympics will be held in Memphis, Tennessee, on February 16-19, 2018. Good luck to all our fencers who participate!

Qualified fencers are listed below. Full results for the tournament can be found here.

Qualified Fencers - Men

Qualified Fencers - Women

Li Meinhold (left, Presidio) prepares an attack against Zachary Wharton (UFA) in Junior Men’s Foil.

Anacan Mangelsdorf (BHFC) lands a touch on the arm of Jai Shourie (LAIFC) in the Cadet Men’s Epee finals.

Theo Funk (Presidio) closes in on Case Avron (LAIFC) in the Cadet Men’s Foil event.

Ryan Tobin (LAIFC) takes a hit from Li Meinhold (Presidio) in the finals of Junior Men’s Foil.