Two Local Atlanta Athletes Gear up for Upcoming U.S. Fencing Championship.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2004 World Cup Gold medallists and 2004 Olympic O·lym·pic adj. Of or relating to the Olympic Games. Olympic Adjective of the Olympic Games Adj. 1. Olympic - of or relating to the Olympic Games; "Olympic winners" 2. hopefuls, Sada SADA Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance SADA Seasonal Affective Disorder Association SADA South African Dental Association SADA Standard Advanced Dewar Assembly SADA Solar Array Drive Assembly (aerospace) and Emily Jacobson Emily Phillipa Jacobson (born December 2, 1985, in Dunwoody, Georgia) is an American sabre fencer. Background Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson, a member of the 1974 U.S. , announced today that they will be competing in the saber event in the U.S. Fencing fencing, sport of dueling with foil, épée, and saber. Modern Fencing The weapons and rules of modern fencing evolved from combat weapons and their usage. Championships in their hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" of Atlanta, Georgia Georgia, country, Asia Georgia (jôr`jə), Georgian Sakartvelo, Rus. Gruziya, officially Republic of Georgia, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,677,000), c.26,900 sq mi (69,700 sq km), in W Transcaucasia. . The U.S. Fencing Championship will take place April 23-26 at the World Congress Center. Top fencers from all over the world will compete. In addition, the U.S. Olympic fencing team will be named at the championships. For the first time in Olympic history, women's saber will be an official sport. Sada and Emily Jacobson should be shoe-ins. The Jacobson sisters started practicing saber as children and were some of the first females to be involved in the sport. At 21, Sada Jacobson Sada Jacobson (born February 14, 1983), from Dunwoody, Georgia, is an American fencer. Background Jacobson is a daughter of David Jacobson (who many at the Nellya Fencing Club call DJ), a member of the 1974 U.S. is the first American First American may refer to:
The youngest Jacobson sister Jackie is also a fencer as are Sada and Emily's mother and father. The sisters followed in their father's footsteps. Dr. David Jacobson fenced at Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was and was a member of the 1974 U.S. Men's Saber Fencing Team. The whole family is eager to have the U.S. Fencing Championship as well as the Titan Games held in their own backyard this Spring. The Jacobson sisters will also compete in the Titan Games, June 18-20, a multi-sport event A multi-sport event is a competition in which athletes compete in a number of different sports. The first modern multi-sport event organised were the Olympic Games, organised by the International Olympic Committee (est. 1894) for the first time in 1896 in Athens, Greece. featuring a number of combat sports including fencing. "We are so thrilled thrill v. thrilled, thrill·ing, thrills v.tr. 1. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly. 2. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture. to finally be able to compete in front of our friends and family. They have heard us talk about our competitions and travel so much. Now they can see its for real," said Emily Jacobson. 2004 US FENCING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FINALS SCHEDULE
START COMPETITION
DATE TIME LOCATION EVENT PHASE
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Room C MEN'S FOIL-
FRIDAY APRIL 23 6:00 PM 306-308 Individual FINALS
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Room C WOMEN'S EPEE-
FRIDAY APRIL 23 7:30 PM 306-308 Individual FINALS
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Room C WOMEN'S EPEE- Gold Medal
SATURDAY APRIL 24 3:30 PM 306-308 Team Round
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Room C WOMEN'S SABER-
SATURDAY APRIL 24 5:00 PM 306-308 Individual FINALS
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Room C Gold Medal
SATURDAY APRIL 24 6:30 PM 306-308 MEN'S FOIL-Team Round
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Room C WOMEN'S SABER- Gold Medal
SUNDAY APRIL 25 5:00 PM 306-308 Team Round
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Room C MEN'S SABER-
SUNDAY APRIL 25 6:00 PM 306-308 Individual FINALS
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Room C MEN'S EPEE-
SUNDAY APRIL 25 7:00 PM 306-308 Individual FINALS
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Room C WOMEN'S FOIL-
SUNDAY APRIL 25 8:30 PM 306-308 Individual FINALS
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Gold Medal
MONDAY APRIL 26 1:00 PM Hall C-3 MEN'S EPEE-Team Round
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Gold Medal
MONDAY APRIL 26 2:00 PM Hall C-3 MEN'S SABER-Team Round
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WOMEN'S FOIL Gold Medal
MONDAY APRIL 26 3:00 PM Hall C-3 TEAM Round
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All events will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center The Georgia World Congress Center or GWCC is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million ft2 (130,000 m2) and hosts more than a million visitors each year. , 285 Andrew Young Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American civil rights activist, former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, and was the United States' first African-American ambassador to the United Nations. International Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30313 For more information, log on to www.usfencing.org. Editors Note: For a photograph of Sada & Emily Jacobson please visit http://www.thesupergroup.com/fencing/ Cut line for photo: Sada and Emily Jacobson are ranked number One and Two in the World in the Saber event of Women's Fencing. They announced in Atlanta that both will compete in the U.S. Fencing Championships in their hometown of Atlanta. The competitors made the announcement at the McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant near their home in a room that features prints of fencing events dating to the 1700s. |
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