March Madness is not confined to Basketball…
The NCAA Fencing Championships are taking place right now at Penn State. I hope you filled out your fencing backet in time!
For live updates of the action, just click on this link: http://www.prisedefer.com/NCAA2009.html
Go Brandeis Fencers and my clubmates Daria Schneider, Dagmara Wozniak, Daryl Homer and Alejandro Rojas!!!!
The world’s fencing association (The FIE) just added Tianjin, China as a Grand Prix competition for us and women’s saber from June 5-7.
Since they had cancelled the Grand Prix in Algeria in the Africa Zone about a month ago, only European Grand Prix’s had been left on the schedule. There was a rumor that Dallas might become one, but looks like the change to the schedule is going to be this!
The change will also affect attendance at the other world cups since the two weekends leading up to this new tournament are competitions in Madrid and Italy and most countries don’t like to compete in 3 weeks in a row.
To my knowledge, this is the first men’s saber world cup held in China.
I’ve never seen a young girl with as much poise as Julia (pictured above) showed tonight as she delivered the keynote speech to several hundred adults gathered at the Sunrise Day Camp charity Gala.
Despite her young age, the young girl hero delivered a very compelling speech about the impact that camp Sunrise is making in children’s lives. She told the crowd, “You don’t want to get cancer, but if you do, having a place like Sunrise is great.”
Kraig Fox receiving the Sunrise Community Award
The Sunrise Day Camp is the only dedicated camp in the nation for children with cancer and their siblings to jointly participate. The money raised at the event will help send more children to the camp which that offers free attendance and is clearly making a huge difference in hundreds of children’s lives as evidenced by Julia.
Jason Rogers, Howie Schwartz and I attended the event and our fencing clinic was an auction item to help raise money for the camp. It sold to Marlena Ken and we can’t thank her enough for her donation and we can’t wait to see her and her son in the near future at our clinic!
The fundraiser was held at the Glen Cove Country Club in Long Island. Kraig Fox along with Karen and Marc Spector were honored for their efforts to raise money and awareness and they also helped provide some of the fabulous auction items.
Several interesting items (to me at least), I ran into several Brandeis alum including Vicky Epstein who use to fence (Told you fencers were everywhere!), the deserts were amazing and there was this most spectaculr picture of Jerry Garcia made up of tiny pictures from his career.(separate post on this later!)
Marlena Ken (center) who had the high bid on our clinic
Most importantly, really a powerful night that helped a good cause and am just in awe of young Julia! To learn more about camp Sunshine go to: http://www.sunrisedaycamp.org/
Desert! Mmmm
Jason. Rogers and I are at the sunrise camp fundraiser tonight. Our fencing clinic is an auction item for this camp that’s a special place for kids with cancer. I hope we can help them raise some more money tonight!
NBA athletes, ultimate fighting championship participants (really!), actors and celebrities have all ventured to the office of Joanna Vargas’s for her renowned facials…
And now so has one Olympic fencer…getting one for the first time!
I had no idea what to expect going in except that my friend Danica Lo told me to brace for the fact that the pore cleaning part might be painful.
My description will probably provoke laughter from anyone who gets these regularly, but my facial involved a lot of different creams, the equivalent of a vacuum cleaner for the face to remove dead skin, some serious pore cleaning and a massage of the face. The pore cleaning wasn’t as bad as I expected. Whew!
My face literally felt lighter once she was done!
To top it off, Joanna is a former foil fencer who use to train at the old Fencers Club with the late Olympic Coach Csaba Elthes. FENCERS ARE EVERYWHERE! (and don’t forget it!)
I got a basic facial since it was my first time, but Joanna’s newest facial, the Red Rose Purifying Facial is expected to be featured in Vogue in May. Here’s what one MTV editor wrote this week on her fashion blog after experiencing this facial – http://fashionbinge.blogspot.com/2009/03/bridal-beauty-binge-please-get-yourself.html
If you want to experience the facial that keeps the celebs coming back for more you can make an appointment at her website: www.joannavargas.com
Also, special thanks to my friend Sammie Becker who helped set up my complimentary experience! THANK YOU SAMMIE!
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