2016 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS

The LHS-VHHS fencing team won the Conference Championship in Men's Epee and Men's Saber at New Trier High School yesterday.  We defeated thirteen teams from WI, IN and IL. This is in addition to winning the Varsity Dual Meet Championship and the Illinois State Championship over the last few weeks. This is an incredible ... More

Price Wins Gold Medal at Illinois State Fencing Championship

Remington Price of the Libertyville-Vernon Hills high school fencing team brought home the Gold Medal in the Men's Epee event at the Illinois State High School Fencing Championship this weekend at Glenbrook South High School.  Remy also won the Gold Medal in the JV Fencing Championship the week before.  Even more ... More

LHS-VHHS Wins Three Events at JV Championships

LHS-VHHS fencers dominated at the 2016 JV Championships this weekend winning medals in every event and bringing home three gold  medals, three bronze medals and two 8th place medals.  LHS-VHHS won more gold medals than any other school in the Great Lakes High School Fencing Conference. Remy Price, from LHS won the JV ... More

LHS-VHHS Dominates at Varsity Tournament

The LHS-VHHS fencing team turned in another strong showing by dominating in four out of six events at the North-South Divisional Dual Meet this weekend at the University of Chicago Lab School. Our Men's Epee team and Men's and Women's Sabre teams were undefeated and our Women's Epee team finished with a strong 4-1 ... More

Varsity Team Dominates at North Division Dual Meet

The LHS-VHHS fencing team is off to a strong start this season.  In addition to bringing home 10 medals at our first two open tournaments, our Varsity team won two events and came in 2nd in two events at its first Varsity tournament at Brookfield Academy this weekend. The Men’s and Women’s Sabre Teams each finished ... More

Team Wins 5 Medals at CMHS Tournament

Thank you to everyone who made the nerve-wracking drive to Waukesha in the snow storm on Saturday.  It was worth it.  The team did very well overall and brought home 5 medals in four events, including a Bronze Medal and four Top-Eight medals.  We also had 9 fencers finish in the Top 16 in their events. Our Men's Epee ... More

Stevenson High School Fencing Tournament Results

The LHS-VHHS Thundercats high school fencing team turned in a strong showing at their first tournament of the 2015 season at Stevenson High School this weekend.  The team brought home five medals in four different events. Men's Epee - 88 fencers Bronze Medal - Bringle Andrew 14 Stahnke, Elliot 15 Price, Remington 32 ... More

Pelech & Lemay to Fence at Junior Olympics

Two fencers on the LHS-VHHS fencing team earned the right to represent Illinois at the Junior Olympics at the JO Qualifier Tournament held at New Tier High School on October 31st. Brian Lemay, a junior at LHS, won the gold medal in the Junior men's saber event, and Lia Pelech, a freshman at VHHS, won gold medals in both ... More

Thundercats to Add Foil Fencing Team this Season

Thundercats Fencing will add both a men's and women's foil team for the 2015-2016 fencing season.  Novice fencers will be encouraged to try foil.  Existing sabre and epee fencers will also have the option to switch to foil if they wish. The decision to host a foil team is part of our long-term strategy to make Liberty... More

Thundercats Win 4 Medals and Title at JV Championship

The LHS-VHHS fencing team delivered a strong showing at the Great Lakes High School Junior Varsity Fencing Championships this weekend.  We fought 296 fencers from 14 high school schools from three states.  At the end of the day our fencers brought home 4 medals, 11 of our fencers finished in the top sixteen in their ... More