Divisional Youth League

We're not doing this either. We talked it over & decided that it would be a bad idea to jump into a giant youth league that doesn't work.

Our two biggest problems as a division are lack of population and finances. Epee & Foil are overrepresented in the division as a whole, with MFA mostly competing in Saber. The rest of the division has older students on the whole while we mostly have middle school & Y12 fencers. I can see us going to a tournament and having NOBODY to fence. Further, the proposed league fees would just kill us on rent & waste money from the parent's perspective.

I think we should work toward a division-wide youth league after we have functional local ones. At that point we can all come to the discussion table with hard data on what works and doesn't work for each Montana city.

Further, I would like to make baby steps toward one that encompasses the whole division. We should probably divide up into two youth leagues, one that encompasses Spokane, Missoula, & Helena, and another with Bozeman, Butte, & Billings. That way nobody has to drive an insane distance to compete regularly.