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to the official site of the Pittsburgh Scholastic Fencing Conference, a high school fencing league in Western
Pennsylvania that operated for seven seasons and consisted of clubs from Allderdice, Bethel Park, North Hills and
Upper St. Clair High Schools. This site is intended to provide fencers, coaches and fans of the PSFC with a tribute
to the conference as well as results and statistics from its final season.
The PSFC was formed in 2002 when Allderdice, Bethel Park, North
Hills and Upper St. Clair decided to withdraw from the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Fencing Association and
form their own separate high school fencing league. (Allderdice left the PSFC following the 2007 season.)
It lasted until the end of the 2008 season, when it was determined that there were not enough teams to justify continued competition
and there was no legitimate chance for expansion.
The mission statement
of the Pittsburgh Scholastic Fencing Conference was to help the youth of the Pittsburgh area develop as student-athletes by
fostering the ideals of teamwork, school spirit and fair play through the promotion of interscholastic competition in the
sport of fencing.
Competition for
foil was conducted in two separate fencing conferences, one for boys and one for girls. (Epee competition
was conducted in one conference featuring co-ed teams.) All teams faced one another in head-to-head competition three
times during the regular season, and the team with the best record at the end of the season won the conference championship.
All matches were conducted on weekday evenings in the spring. They consisted of nine "round-robin" bouts between teams
of three fencers and one alternate. The first team to win five bouts won the match.
Thanks for taking a look at the site. Fans are welcome to get in touch with
their thoughts.
IN FERRO VERITAS!
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| Upper St. Clair's Sebastian Reigber (left) vs. Bethel Park's Brandon Botzer during the 2007 season. |
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| The Bethel Park girls' team celebrated its fourth PSFC Foil title in 2006. |
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In the News
PSFC PERMANENTLY SUSPENDS OPERATIONS- THE PSFC HAS
DECIDED TO CEASE OPERATIONS AS OF MAY 16, 2009. NORTH HILLS COACH AMBER DAVIS HAS STATED THAT THE NORTH
HILLS HIGH SCHOOL FENCING TEAM WILL LIKELY DISBAND AS WELL. BETHEL PARK AND UPPER ST. CLAIR WILL EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY
OF AFFILIATION WITH ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE.
TOBIAS STEPS DOWN: BETHEL PARK HEAD COACH
CHRISTOPHER TOBIAS ANNOUNCED ON MAY 12, 2009 THAT THE 2009 SEASON WILL BE HIS LAST WITH THE BLACK HAWKS. TOBIAS
COMPILED A CAREER RECORD OF 206-79 (.723) IN 13 SEASONS WITH BETHEL PARK, AND LED HIS TEAMS TO 11 INTERSCHOLASTIC
CHAMPIONSHIPS (INCLUDING 8 PSFC TITLES) AND 7 UNDEFEATED SEASONS (4 IN THE PSFC). BETHEL PARK COMPETED AS AN INDEPENDENT
HIGH SCHOOL TEAM IN 2009, FINISHING WITH A RECORD OF 5-1 IN BOYS' FOIL, 6-0 IN GIRLS' FOIL AND 1-0 IN CO-ED EPEE.
THE BETHEL PARK FENCING CLUB HAS NOT YET ANNOUNCED HIS REPLACEMENT.
2008 EPEE ROUND 3: A PERFECT FINISH FOR BETHEL PARK-
THE BETHEL PARK EPEE TEAM FINISHED UNBEATEN FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THREE SEASONS WITH VICTORIES OVER NORTH HILLS AND UPPER
ST. CLAIR ON MAY 23. THE HAWKS' 6-0 RECORD IN EPEE PUT THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON A PERFECT 12-0 SEASON IN PSFC FOIL
AND EPEE COMPETITION. FOR MORE ON THE FINAL ROUND OF EPEE COMPETITION, VISIT THE PSFC EPEE PAGE.
2008 FOIL ROUND 3: BLACK HAWKS FINISH UNBEATEN-
THE BETHEL PARK FOIL TEAM SWEPT NORTH HILLS AND UPPER ST. CLAIR IN THE FINAL ROUND OF 2008 FOIL COMPETITION ON MAY 8 AT FT.
COUCH MIDDLE SCHOOL IN UPPER ST. CLAIR TO FINISH UNDEFEATED AT 6-0. MEANWHILE, THE UPPER ST. CLAIR GIRLS MANAGED
TO DEFEAT THE BP GIRLS 5-3, BUT LOST THE SEASON SERIES TO THE BLACK HAWKS 2-1. FOR A RECAP OF THE FOIL FINALE,
VISIT THE SCHEDULE & FOIL STANDINGS/STATS AND FOIL MATCH RESULTS PAGES.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GOLD MEDAL WINNERS AT THE 2008 PSFC INVITATIONAL: DEVON VERNER (BOYS' FOIL),
SHELBY WELSH (GIRLS' FOIL) AND MICHAEL FARINA (CO-ED EPEE). FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF THE RESULTS, VIST THE PSFC INVITATIONAL PAGE OF THIS SITE.
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