Every year Absolute Fencing hosts an essay competition as a part of the All Academic Team Recognition. They give out a total of $10,000 in scholarships - two $4,000 scholarships and two $1,000 scholarships. There is an overall application which includes things like your GPA and an essay. This year I was awarded one of the $4,000 scholarships for my essay. You can read my essay, and the other winning essays on the “Meet the Teams” page (you will need to scroll alllllllll the way down to find the Scholarship Recipients section).
So USA Fencing hasn’t posted on their social media yet … they are busy posting about the Olympics and Team USA. Once they do post I’ll boost it like crazy. If you use Instagram you should follow them for awesome Olympic coverage. You can see cool stuff like Snoop Dog hanging out with the women’s saber team. Also you should follow me on Instagram too, I’m not hanging out with Snoop but I get up some cool stuff also.
The opening ceremonies of the Olympics starts tomorrow and men’s saber is Saturday morning. Here is a USA Fencing article about the format of fencing at the Olympics. And here is the USA Fencing Olympic and Paralympic Hub with bios on the athletes and a schedule of events - scroll to the bottom of the page to see the schedule.