Alpha Fencing Academy

10/21/2026

🏆🔥 AN AMAZING WEEKEND FOR ALPHA FENCING ACADEMY! 🔥🏆

What a fantastic weekend at the Tennessee RYC/RJCC, October 17–18!

Our Alpha fencers delivered outstanding performances, bringing home 5 medals, 10 Top 8 finishes, and 2 new ratings! 💪⚔️

🥇 GOLD MEDAL
🏆 Haotian Cao – Cadet Men’s Saber
⭐ Earned his C26 rating!

🥈 SILVER MEDALS
🥈 Haotian Cao – Y14 Men’s Saber
🥈 Sven Yan Rimmele – Y12 Men’s Saber
🥈 Albert Chen – Y8 Men’s Saber

🥉 BRONZE MEDAL
🥉 Christopher Favo – Y14 Men’s Saber

🔥 TOP 8 FINISHERS
⭐ Haotian Cao – 5th, Junior Men’s Saber
⭐ Srita Pratika Bhaskara – 6th, Junior Women’s Saber
⭐ Christopher Favo – 8th, Cadet Men’s Saber
⭐ Srita Pratika Bhaskara – 6th, Cadet Women’s Saber
⭐ Skye Shang – 7th, Y14 Women’s Saber
⭐ Albert Chen – 7th, Y10 Men’s Saber

🎖️ SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS!

🔥 Haotian Cao – Gold, Silver, Junior Top 8, and a new C26 rating!

🔥 Christopher Favo – Bronze, Cadet Top 8, and earned his E26 rating!

👏 Congratulations to ALL our Alpha fencers who competed this weekend! Every bout, every victory, and every challenge is another step toward becoming stronger.

At Alpha, we don’t just celebrate medals. We celebrate dedication, hard work, and progress!

Special Thanks to Coach Luke and Michelle!!

We are proud of every one of you!

10/19/2026

WELCOME TO ALPHA, COACH LUKE! 🎉

We’re excited to welcome Luke as our new part-time Assistant Coach, working with our youth fencing classes!

Luke is a talented saber fencer competing at the Division I level this season. He is also a senior at Georgia Tech, studying biochemistry, with plans to pursue a career in chemical engineering.

Luke brings valuable coaching experience as the Saber Squad Leader of the Georgia Tech Fencing Club and as an Assistant Coach at the Fencing Academy of Denver.

We’re excited to have Luke join our coaching team and share his knowledge, experience, and passion for fencing with our young athletes!

Coach Luke! Welcome to the Alpha family!

10/19/2026

WELCOME TO THE TEAM, MICHELLE!

We are excited to welcome Michelle as the new Club Manager at Alpha Fencing Academy! 🎉

Michelle is a senior nursing student at Emory University and currently works part-time at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta as a Patient Care Technician. She also brings valuable experience in administration and customer service.

Michelle will be helping manage the administrative operations of our club and supporting our families, athletes, and staff to ensure everything runs smoothly.

We are excited to have her join the Alpha Fencing Academy family and look forward to the great things ahead!

👏 Welcome aboard, Michelle! We’re happy to have you on our team!

10/13/2026

10/07/2026

8 YEARS AGO… HISTORY WAS MADE! 🇪🇬

October 2018 — Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
At the Youth Olympic Games, Mazen ElAraby fought through an intense day of competition and earned a BRONZE MEDAL 🥉 — writing his name into history as the first Egyptian saber fencer to win an Olympic medal! 🇪🇬⚔️

And today, we celebrate another special occasion… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAZEN! 🎂🎉

From the fencing piste to the Olympic podium, you showed the world your talent, determination, and fighting spirit. 🥉🔥

Alpha Fencing Academy is incredibly proud of your journey and wishes you an amazing birthday and an even greater future ahead! 🌟

We hope to see you back at Alpha again soon!

Happy Birthday, Champion! 🥳🏆🇪🇬

10/06/2026

🤺 UNSTOPPABLE ON THE STRIP! 🤺

​Alpha fencers brought the HEAT to the Peachtree RYC/RJCC this weekend! Huge congratulations to our incredible fencers and their dedicated parents—your hard work, late nights, and relentless drive showed up in every single touch.
​Shoutout to our TOP 8 FINISHERS who
dominated their events:

​🥇 GOLD / 1st Place
• Justin Wang – Junior Men’s Saber (Earned B26!)

• Felicia Yang – Cadet Women’s Saber (Earned B26!)

​🥈 2nd Place

• Legh Hsu – Youth 8 Men’s Saber

​🥉 3rd Place

• Albert Chen – Youth 8 Men’s Saber
• Kareem El behary – Junior Men’s Saber
• Ivan Ye – Junior Men’s Saber (Earned C26!)

​🔥 Top 8 Medalists

• Christopher Favo – 5th, Youth 14 Men’s Saber
• Sven Yan Rimmele – 5th, Youth 12 Men’s Saber
• Mia Xue – 6th, Youth 10 Women’s Saber
• Ivan Ye – 7th, Cadet Men’s Saber
• Felicia Yang – 8th, Junior Women’s Saber

​Alpha is growing stronger every day, and we couldn’t be prouder of this team!
​Good luck to everyone in the coming tournaments, and stay tuned for upcoming news!!

09/26/2026

ALPHA SABER CHALLENGE #1 — COMPLETE!

Congratulations to all the fencers who competed and gave it their all !

A special CONGRATULATIONS to our winners! 🥇🥈🥉

Thank you to everyone who came out and made the Alpha Saber Challenge #1 an exciting day!

And remember… this is just the beginning! 👀🔥

ALPHA SABER CHALLENGE #2 — COMING THIS NOVEMBER!

We hope to see you all back on the strip!
See you in November!

09/22/2026

Alpha Saber Challenge 1 🏆

09/19/2026

CONGRATULATIONS, SKYE!

Alpha Fencing Academy is proud to congratulate Skye Shang on her outstanding Top 8 finish at the Lotus Cup RYC/RJCC in Y14 Women’s Saber!

What a great performance, Skye! Keep pushing, keep fighting, and keep believing. 💪

Good luck tomorrow in Y12 — go get it!

Once Alpha, Always Alpha!

09/12/2026

CONGRATULATIONS, ERIC YE!

Alpha Fencing Academy is incredibly proud to congratulate Eric Ye on winning the Silver Medal at the Air Force ROC!

Now in his freshman year at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Eric continues to show the dedication, discipline, and fighting spirit that have always defined him as a fencer and as a member of the Alpha family.

Eric, we will always be proud of you, your accomplishments, and the career you are building. We can’t wait to see what comes next!

Good luck in your next chapter, Eric! Keep pushing, keep fighting, and keep reaching higher.

Once Alpha, Always Alpha.

— Alpha Fencing Academy