On Saturday 3 August, seven Newington boys travelled to Brisbane for the Australian Schools Fencing Championships, a competition open to the top two ranked teams in each state.

Over the weekend Newington competed in both the Senior Boys Sabre and Senior Boys Foil events receiving excellent results overall in a very strong field. The Sabre team made up of Boston Fawkes (9/ME), Jayce Carrano (11/MA). Brendan Creswick (11/JN), Alex Mei (11/JN) were ranked 3rd place in their division, while the Foil team made up of Alex Mei (11/JN), Adam Chew (10/MO), Max Nicola-Woods (11/MA) won the bronze medal.

Special thanks must be extended to Mr Paul Woods and Mr Simon Jin for supervising and coaching the boys.

 Max Schultz (12/PR)