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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fencing is not that hard to get good at and it is one of the easier sports to check the box with for college [/quote]

Can you just stop? It is obvious you have a personal issue with fencing. You magically appear on DCUM with any mention of the sport to find a way to diminish it or anyone associated with it. It's not for everyone. Clearly it's not for you or your DC, which means you or your DC have invested little if any time in understanding it, which means you have zero knowledge to speak on it, which means you are adding zero value with respect to OPs question. Move on. This is getting old.[/quote]

Stats don’t lie . 30 percent chance for a high school fencer to compete at college level. Lol[/quote]

Just because you are competing at the college level does not mean that you are "good". There are plenty of fencers on collegiate rosters who are not on the national points list (not ranked) or who are rated B or below. Not all collegiate teams are competitive. Not all fencers on a given powerhouse team are competitive. The most competitive programs only recruit a handful of fencers each year. The rest of the fencers are walk-ons that are there as training partners and are likely never going to fence any NCAA competitions. For example, Columbia and Notre Dame have huge rosters relatively speaking. Most of those fencers won't get to compete at a single NCAA tournament. Correct, it is not that hard to walk on to a team once you're already admitted to the school. Correct, that inflates the percent of high school fencers able to fence at the college level. [/quote]

This is a fair and balanced response. The other people attacking the PP was uncalled for. [/quote]

The PP posted repeatedly denigrated the sport, said it took no athletic ability to fence, and that college fencing was a "joke."  It would seem that this ill-informed opinion, repeatedly expressed for no reason, was what was "uncalled for."[/quote]

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