Mary Griffith is a long time member of the bout committee that helps to run USA Fencing’s large North American Cup Tournaments. On May 13th, she took to her blog to share her frustrations with the organization and to explain why she has had enough.
From http://marygriff.com/2012/05/13/burning-my-bridges/:
I’ve written several times before about how I got into working bout committee at USA Fencing national tournaments, about how annoying it was for both me and my daughters for me to be right there at the strip watching them compete. For them, I was a distraction; for me, watching them fence was uncomfortably stomach-churning—there was nothing I could do to help them except refill their water bottles and try not to bother them. When someone suggested that I help out with bout committee (BC), I jumped at the opportunity—it gave me something useful to do far enough away from my daughters’ strips to eliminate the stomach-churning, but still gave me access to plenty of information on how they were doing.
