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Welcome to the home page of the Saint Joseph's Fencing Academy. Take a look at What's New in our web.

History

St. Joseph's Fencing Academy (SJFA) was founded in 1982 by an ex-Josephian, Jeffrey Lopez who graduated in 1973. It was then the only fencing club in a local school. His vision and foresight, coupled with the assistance of his strong team of coaches (who all hailed from Saint Joseph's Institution) allowed him to reach his goal of making SJFA  one of the best fencing clubs in Singapore. The Saint Joseph's Fencing Academy was initially called the Saint Joseph's Fencing Club. In 1990, a decision was made to change the name to the present St. Joseph's Fencing Academy as it was felt that this more adequately represented the achievements and the aspirations of the Academy and it's Coaches. To date, SJFA  has trained countless National, age group as well as SEA Games medallists Practically every single Under Twenty Foil Champion from the past 20 years has hailed from SJFA. and 3/4 of the present Foil National Cadet Team and 1/2 of the Foil National Squad are ex-Josephians. With a steady flow of young potentials and careful grooming by the coaches, the club has has established itself as the undisputed Foil National Under-20s champions, fencing against some Junior Colleges, University, Singapore Armed Forces and National fencers. In this vein, SJFA  will continue to strive to inculcate the values fencing has to offer: discipline, determination and dedication among others, and will also continue to educate Josephians in the ideals of both man and God, never forgetting the guiding Lasallian spirit which has gotten us so far.

What's New

The following is a list of recent additions to our web. Whenever we publish a paper, write a report, update our training schedules, or add anything else to our web, we'll put a notice here. Every month we'll remove the oldest items. The most recent changes are listed first, and each item is linked to the page with the updated content.

20th July 2003

bulletWhat is fencing?
bulletCoaching Team section
bulletMeet the members of SJFA
bulletSchedule of SJFA for the month of August
bulletCompetition reports finally on the web and made public for the first time
bulletArchives on the SJFA alumni

4th Aug 2003

bulletCoach David is now a father! Meet him and his new son Jacob at their baby shower party on 27th Jul. Photos available here [1,2].
bulletFM Summer Masters was recently concluded on 3rd Aug. SJFA boys Came out tops in the U-16 category. Read about their exploits here.
bulletPlans are underway to send in five SJFA teams to the National Pesta Sukan Team Championships. The teams will consist of 5 generations of Josephian Fencers who have graduated as far back as 1992. To be part of this event, simply submit your names to Chief Admin, or simply come down to Clementi Sports Hall on 31st Aug to be part of this historic effort. 

20th Aug 2003

bulletThe Minime Competitions at Funan IT Mall saw SJFA's young talent fight their way into the finals despite tough odds from experienced and national sparing fencers. Click here for the committee's report on the event.
bulletNew Articles section is now up. Click here to go to Archives to see it.

 

 

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