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Championships Galore!

Individual Fencers Earn Silver and Bronze at State Tourney

After attending an Upper School championship assembly on Wednesday, March 9, Epee squad fencers Sam Tkach ’12 (Little Silver) and Omar Sarhan ’12 (Ocean) were pumped up and ready to compete at the NJSIAA’s State Individual Fencing Championships on March 13.

Sam and Omar, along with 130 fencers from 51 New Jersey high schools across the state, headed to Montgomery High School on Sunday morning to compete for an Individual State Championship title. The event began with a round robin tournament. Although up against some very tough competition, Sam and Omar were among 15 of the best fencers to safely qualify for round two.

Once again, during the second round, Sam and Omar secured a place, this time in the nine-fencer final round. Amidst cheers and support from teammates, coaches, friends and parents, the boys joined a two-hour competition that had each fencer fence eight bouts a piece. The individual title went to Cooper Schumacher of Pompton Lakes High School with six wins. Right behind him, were Sam and Omar with five wins each, as they took silver and bronze for the day. Of all teams competing in the tournament, Ranney was the only high school throughout the entire championship to win two medals in the same weapon!

Both put in a truly outstanding performance that marked a splendid close to a very successful 2010-2011 winter season.


US Hosts Championship Assembly

Upper School students, along with the fifth and sixth grade class, gathered in the GPA on Wednesday, March 9, to honor both an athletic and academic Upper School team, each with unprecedented wins.

Following a brief welcome from Upper Head of School Paul Zanowski, who reflected on the importance of recognizing significant achievements and showing support for one’s peers, Director of Athletics Tom Moriau then introduced Ranney’s varsity fencing team — comprised of the 2011 NJSIAA Champion Epee Squad. Led in by the Ranney Panther, fencers Thomas Hearne ’12, Jake Bassinder ’13, Omar Sarhan ’12, Sam Tkach ’12, and Thomas Florek ’11 entered a gym filled with resounding applause.

After receiving a general description on the overall premise of fencing from Omar Sarhan, foil fencers Thomas Hearne and Jake Bassinder took to one side of the gym, while Omar and Sam Tkach took to the other side of the gym to show a captive audience how a typical fencing match would occur. Head of School Dr. Lawrence S. Sykoff then proudly presented the team with their state trophy and gave his own personal congratulatory speech.

Paul Zanowski once again approached the microphone, this time recognizing the school’s “Quiz Kids” — the Upper School Academic Team — as he invited its members to the floor. After competing in the BATE Tournament at Bloomfield High School, Ranney School’s Academic Team qualified for a 2011 National Academic Quiz Championship Tournament. The team, along with 200 schools from across the country, will compete in a NAQT-sponsored three-day national championship in Atlanta, Georgia over Memorial Day weekend. Once on the floor, team member Roey J. Hadar ’13, who also finished a top-scoring individual competitor at the BATE Tournament, described the competition. Meanwhile, the team showed-off its first place trophy.

On behalf of the prestigious honors mentioned above, the entire school was granted a dress-down day on Friday, March 11th. Congratulations to both Upper School teams on such outstanding accomplishments!
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