2007-2008 Season

The Youth Development Series was conceived in May of 2007 and - after some surprisingly intensive work by volunteers from the Foundation, Scottish Fencing and our ever helpful sponsors Allstar UK held its first event in December of the same year.

Organising a new event is not hard - but trying to shoehorn 4 linked events into an already packed calendar without impacting on anyone else was a challenge (to say the least).

The first season of the newly branded Allstar UK sponsored Youth Development Series took in four rounds:

• Round 1 - St Thomas of Aquin's RC School - Edinburgh (December '07)
• Round 2 - Wallace High School - Stirling (January '08)
• Round 3 - High School of Glasgow - Glasgow (March '08)
• Round 4 - Dollar Academy - Dollar (April '08)

Each round catered for u14 - o16 fencers in all three weapons - and Round One even attracted Scottish National Ranking points for selection to the Junior Home Internationals in Stoke.

The goal of the YDS is not to build something for those who already compete up and down the country however - and we were delighted to have over a dozen fencers join Sottish Fencing just to compete in the series.

You're the folks this series is intended for and we hope you keep coming back again and again...