Buccaneer Blades Fencing Club

06/15/2026

Day 2 of the Show Me State games- Epee day:

BBF fencers continued to fence great and have so much fun! Congratulations to all for aome great bouts and camaraderie. :)

Special shout out to Delaine Herl for taking 1st place in Veteran epee and earning his E26!

Other notables pirates include:
Kylie Boutin - 3rd Y14 epee

Delaine Herl - 3rd Unrated SXE
David Giocolo - 3rd Unrated SXE

Delaine Herl - 1st VXE
John Hock - 2nd VXE
David Giocolo - 3rd VXE

06/13/2026

Day 1 of the Show Me State games is finished and BBF pirates fenced amazingly!

Shout out to Kip Watson for taking first in unrated senior foil and earning an E26!

We're also proud of:
Nicholas Boss - 2nd SXF
Lucas Brown - 3rd SXF

Kip Watson - 1st Unrated SXF
Matthew LeJeune - 2nd Unrated SXF
Abby Foust - 3rd Unrated SXF

Ronan Brodeur - 2nd Y14MS
Owen Fallert - 3rd Y14MS

06/01/2026

Congratulations to Lucas Brown winning the 2026 titanium foil and going 17-1 for the day! Also shout out to our other pirates: Thomas Kokker, Richard Stanton, Liam Oakes, Abby Foust and Jey Lucero for pushing through the single hardest fencing tournament we've ever heard of! 😁😁

05/22/2026

You will never get today's practice back. So it's not whether you spent time, but if you will have something to show for the time spent.

05/04/2026

04/20/2026

We had a great tournament this weekend with so many amazing fencers from all over! We love seeing so many old friends from around the St. Louis, Kansas and Indiana divisions as well as meeting new friends! Thank you everyone for helping us celebrate our legendary armorer, Don Bone! This weekend, our tournament achieved an A2 senior mixed epee, a C2 senior mixed foil, a D1 senior mixed saber, D1 vet epee, and E1 vet foil and E1 women's foil.

Special shoutouts to our medaling pirates:

Carter Hayden - 2nd SMF (earning a D26)
Cordelia Strathman- 1st SWE
Coach Chris - 3rd Vet foil
Sawyer Hicks - 3rd Y12S
Maximus Crews - 3rd Y12S
Seth Wilson - 2nd SMS
Lucas Manning- 3rd SMS (earning E26)

04/10/2026

Anyone in the Wentzville, Francis Howell or Fort Zumwalt school districts want some help getting this started? BBF would love to support the effort with USA Fencing!!

New turnkey afterschool initiative connects students to local clubs and the Olympic and Paralympic pathway.

04/01/2026

Buccaneer Blades Fencing Club will be hosting its 7th annual Don Bone Classic tournament on April 18-29th, in honor of our esteemed armorer for his amazing 91st year!

We'll be hosting senior mixed, senior women's and VET events for all 3 weapons! Beautiful pirate themed mugs will be given out for 1st place for all senior events, and bottles of our favorite rum or whiskey for all vet events! 😁😁

We hope you can come out and enjoy some fun and a great tournament!

https://www.askfred.net/tournaments/466cd1b0-afdb-4cfd-8e83-cce5234eb42f

03/25/2026

In fencing, we talk a lot about touches, ratings, and results. We talk about footwork and blade work and tactics. We talk about mental resilience and about inner discipline. What we don’t talk about nearly enough is reputation — and yet, reputation is one of the most powerful forces shaping a fe...

03/24/2026

Congratulations to so many great fencers at our Join the Pirate's Crew tournament over the weekend! Congratulations to our friends at Heartland Fencing Academy, The Fencers Academy, Fence St. Louis, Evansville Fencing Academy, Mizzou and more for coming out and fencing with us!! We are so proud of our pirates for fencing great!

Special shout outs to Libby Bell for taking 🥇 and earning her E26 in women's foil! JB Mette reearned his E26 in senior mixed epee to earn his Dread Pirate rank in the club! l. Carter Hayden took 🥈and reearned his E26 in senior mixed foil. Liam Oakes took🥉and earned his E26 in senior mixed foil. Coach John Christian took 🥉 to reearn his C26 in epee. Halen Morris took 🥉to reearn alhis E26 in senuor mixed saber. Also congratulations to Grace Waterman and Sarah Brenton for earning their Buccaneer ranks in foil and saber as well!

We are so proud of all our fencers!! There were many great moments and great fencing. 😀😃 congratulations to everyone and we look forward to seeing you all again soon!

SMF:
🥈 - Carter Hayden
🥉- Liam Oakes

SWE:
🥇- Cordelia Strathman

SWF:
🥇- Libby Bell
🥈- Clara Conroy
🥉- Abby Foust and Grace Waterman

SME:
🥉- John Christian

SWS:
🥉- Sara Brenton

Y12MS:
🥉- Jo Hicks

SMS:
🥉- Halen Morris