Times are close of registration, E.D.T. (Same time as New York). Events are open only to Indiana Division members of USFA. (You may join at the venue.) This is a qualifying event for the Summer Nationals; there are no alternate qualifiers. Therefore, only those who intend to compete in the Summer National Championships should enter. You must meet USFA age requirements to fence at this tournament.

Automatic Qualifiers

A list of automatic qualifiers should be posted soon on the www.USFencing.org website. If you're on the list, you're already qualified!

Entry Fee:

• $10 First weapon/category
• $5 Subsequent weapons/category
• Fees double for those not preregistered by Monday, April 23

*"C" & Under event: Open only to fencers rated "C" and below.

• Top 3 or 25% rounded up finishers qualify for the Division II Summer Nationals.
• Top 3 or 25% rounded up rated "D" and below will qualify for Division III Summer Nationals.
• All veteran competitors qualify for Veteran events at Summer Nationals
• Fencers must be born 1993 or earlier, or be on the current Junior point list to compete.
• Note that this year all alternative qualification paths to D2 and D3 events have been eliminated: you can no longer qualify for these events by virtue of D1A, U19, or U16 qualifications. Thus, if you want to compete in D2 or D3 at Summer Nationals, you must compete in this event.
• There will be no separate D3 ("D" and below) competition, as it would no longer result in any extra qualifiers. Qualification for D3 will be solely through the "C & Under" event.

**Under 16: Open only to fencers who were born 1991 or later. Note that according to the USFA, if you were born after 1994 you will have to have Y14 points to qualify to fence in the U16 event at Nationals even if you were to have finished high enough to qualify in this tournament. Fencers on the Cadet point list automatically qualify. Fencers who qualified for the U19 event at Sectionals now automatically qualify for the Cadet event

• Top 3 or 25% qualify for Under 16 Summer Nationals.
  

**Youth-14: Open only to fencers who were born 1992 or later. Note that according to the USFA, if you were born after 1995 you will have to have Y12 points to qualify to fence in the Y14 event at Nationals even if you qualify based on this tournament. Fencers on the Y14 list automatically qualify.

• Top 3 or 25% qualify for Youth-14 Summer Nationals.
  

To qualify for the Youth12 and Youth10 categories this year you must be either on the appropriate point list, or have competed in a regional or super-regional youth tournament. The list of such tournaments is given on the www.usfencing.org website.

The complete rules for qualifying to national tournaments are located on the www.usfencing.org website (the athlete's handbook), and a summary is located here.

Close of registration for U-19 and Senior team events for Summer National Championships is the same time as for the "C" and under event. Indiana has never sent more than two teams per weapon to Nationals. We can qualify four teams. Clubs wishing to qualify a team must let me know via email, phone, or at the tournament by the close of registration. In the extremely unlikely event that we actually have to run the competition (e.g., if more than four clubs sign up), we will run it the following weekend, and registrants will be notified.

DIRECTIONS:

Directions to the Indiana Fencing Academy in Mishawaka, IN are located here.