The fifth annual Amazon Open will be on Sunday, June 8, 2008 at DC Fencers Club in Silver Spring, MD. This year there will be an Open Women's Sabre event in addition to the Open Women's Epee. At last year's tournament, fencers from all over the east coast came to compete in an exciting Group A2 competition. Once again, there will be prizes for the top four places, provided by Absolute Fencing, medals down to 8th place, and a medal for the U fencer with the best result.

Open Women's Epee will close registration at 9:00am. Open Women's Sabre will close registration at 2:00pm.

Preregistration is available through AskFRED. Please help the tournament organizers by preregistering if you intend to come. Tournament fees ($30.00 per event) cannot be paid online; they will be collected on the morning of the event.

The annual Tune-Up Open will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 21-22, 2008 at DCFC's Forest Glen Fencing Center.

On Saturday, June 21, Open Mixed Epee will close registration at 10:00am. On Sunday, June 22, Open Mixed Foil will close registration at 10:00am and Open Mixed Sabre will close at 1:30pm.

Preregister at AskFRED.

Below is a list of the rated referees (from the Fencing Officials Committee web site) who are members of Capitol Division. Referees are tested and certified at levels 1 through 10, 1 is the highest level.

Jim Adams: Foil-6, Epee-3
Shoshana Agus-Kleinman: Foil-8, Epee-7, Sabre-10
Peter Barton: Foil-2, Epee-1, Sabre-5
Andrew Crowder: Foil-6, Epee-6
Jose de Olivares: Epee-5
Robert DelGaizo: Foil-4, Epee-4, Sabre-5
Joe Dzikiewicz: Foil-8, Epee-8
Andrew Holbrook: Foil-4, Epee-5, Sabre-9
Jonathan Holbrook: Foil-5, Epee-5, Sabre-10
Laura Johnson: Sabre-6
Marvin Lowenthal: Foil-9, Epee-8, Sabre-10
Don Malnati: Foil-8, Epee-10, Sabre-10
Jessica Mayerovitch: Foil-8, Epee-7, Sabre-8
Eric Moret: Foil-5, Epee-5
Byron Neslund: Epee-8
Larry Pinkus: Foil-7, Epee-6, Sabre-6
Michael Samblanet: Foil-9, Epee-9
Lewis Sloter: Foil-6, Epee-5, Sabre-7
Mary Anne Walker: Foil-8, Epee-6

Division Chair: Jim Adams (jimadams61@yahoo.com)
Vice-Chair: Robert King (rf.king@verizon.net)
Secretary: Bettie Graham (SecretaryCapDiv@yahoo.com)
Treasurer: John Hyslop (gjhy@starpower.net)

Congress Representatives:

Raymond Finkleman (fencer@fencer.com)

Club Representatives:

Marguerite Salvatore, DCFC (ellorts@gmail.com)
David Livengood, CCFC (david_livengood@msn.com)
Greg Ihrie, UMD (eggr59@hotmail.com)
Larry Pinkus, NIH (PinkusL@csr.nih.gov)

19.  Lobanenkov, Ilya V. 
22.  Kaull, James T. 
25.  Duncan, Corwin 
53.  Wormack, Anthony W.

80.  Wiggins, Daniel S.

29.  Wiggins, Daniel S. 
48.  Flanagan, Seth

18.  Souders, Peter F. 

2.   Kaptain, Emiliano A.
11.  Josephs, Michael I. 
57.  Jorgensen, Peter R. O. 
64.  Srere, Reed K.

22.  Srere, Reed K. 
33.  Emanuel, Galen J.

8.   DC Fencers Club 

3T.  Holmes, Katharine
9.   Asher, Valerie 
19.  Giblin, Christina  
31.  Stephenson, Anne D. 

1.   Holmes, Katharine

5.   Wiggins, Elizabeth

23.  Oliver, Maddie 
26.  Leval, Jacqueline

8.   Lainoff, Lillie O.

14T. Emanuel, Mary K.

4.   DC Fencers Club