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Samuel Ponticelli

1953
Illinois Fencers Club
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Win/loss statistics

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Victories - - - - 5 5
Losses - - - - 32 32
Win ratio - - - - 13.5% 13.5%
Pool victories - - - - 4 4
Pool losses - - - - 26 26
Pool win ratio - - - - 13.3% 13.3%
DE victories - - - - 1 1
DE losses - - - - 6 6
DE win ratio - - - - 14.3% 14.3%

Seasons start on August 1 and end on July 31.

Scores

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Easy wins† - - - - 1 1
Easy wins % - - - - 20.0% 20.0%
Close wins‡ - - - - - -
Close wins % - - - - 0.0% 0.0%
Close losses‡ - - - - 7 7
Close losses % - - - - 21.9% 21.9%
Big losses† - - - - 11 11
Big losses % - - - - 34.4% 34.4%

† Easy victories or big losses are 4+ touches in pools, 7+ in standard DEs, and 5+ in veteran or youth DEs.

‡ Close bouts are 1 touch or fewer in pools, 3 or fewer in standard DEs, and 2 or fewer in veteran or youth DEs.

Bouts with time expired

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Victories - - - - 1 1
Victories % - - - - 20.0% 20.0%
Losses - - - - 4 4
Losses % - - - - 12.5% 12.5%
Total - - - - 5 5
Total % - - - - 13.5% 13.5%

Events

2025-2026 2024-2025 2023-2024 2022-2023 Before 2022 All time
Events - - - - 6 6
Tournaments - - - - 6 6

Competition history

6 competitions, 37 bouts

IL.Div. Summer National Qualifer Tournament

Div II Men's Épée D1, DV2 May 1, 2021

Place 12 of 16 Seed 10 Not ranked Rating U Illinois Fencers Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 2:5 YI Stephen K. 4 - D19 1 Fencing Center of Chicago / Stevenson High School Fencing 3019 1510 3.6 2%
Pool
V 4:2 RICHARDSON Ray 11 - U 14 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 1195 1507 43.3 67%
Pool
D 2:5 HE Ethan Y. 15 - U 9 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 1883 1550 39.9 31%
Pool
D 0:5 NIKOLOV Peter 3 - D20 7 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2312 1510 15.7 10%
T16
D 5:15 NIKOLOV Peter 3 - D20 7 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2373 1705 89.0 19%

2020 IFC Div 2 & Y12 Tournament--3 Weapons

Div II Mixed Épée C2, DV2 March 8, 2020

Place 24 of 27 Seed 15 Not ranked Rating U Illinois Fencers Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 4:5 VERMAN Oleksandr 27 - U 18 Illinois Fencers Club 2500 1540 21.8 18%
Pool
D 1:5 MALLAVARPU Aarthi C. 3 - C19 3 Illinois Fencers Club - - - -
Pool
D 3:4 REINER Julius J. 6 - C19 2 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2598 1518 12.9 6%
Pool
V 5:0 FUMO David 22 - U 25 1549 1505 67.3 48%
Pool
D 3:5 PASTER Eli 19 - U 10 New Trier High School 2326 1572 23.3 14%
Pool
D 3:5 CASTELLANOS Rene E. 10 - D19 16 Fencing Center of Chicago 1999 1549 38.5 25%
T32
D 7:15 PASTER Eli 19 - U 10 New Trier High School 2698 1773 67.6 13%

2020 IFC Div. 3 & Y12 Tournament--3 Weapon

Div III Mixed Épée D1, DV3 February 23, 2020

Place 16 of 21 Seed 9 Not ranked Rating U Illinois Fencers Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 3:4 EAHEART Brennan C. 1 - D19 2 Homewood-Flossmoor High School 2500 1671 30.6 22%
Pool
D 3:5 WAGENIUS Per 17 - U 6 Deerfield Highland Park High School 2921 1641 15.9 9%
Pool
D 3:5 TACKE Christopher 21 - U 7 Northwest Indiana Fencing Club 2588 1625 23.5 14%
Pool
D 3:5 HENSEL Kaeleb 8 - U 14 2074 1601 46.4 27%
Pool
D 3:5 LEE Daniel J. 16 - U 11 Fencing Center of Chicago 2643 1555 15.2 8%
T32
V 15:11 AGARWAL Adheesh 12 - U 17 Illinois Fencers Club 1341 1716 221.5 66%
T16
D 7:15 CANCELO Jose 5 - E19 3 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2301 1938 164.7 35%

2019 IFC Dominick Epee Challenge with Team and Y12

Senior Mixed Épée A2, SNR May 19, 2019

Place 53 of 57 Seed 54 Not ranked Rating U Illinois Fencers Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 0:5 LENTINE Henry 22 - C19 8 Illinois Fencers Club 2500 1826 45.7 26%
Pool
D 3:4 NORCONK Claire R. 34 - D18 32 Three Swords Fencing Club - - - -
Pool
D 2:5 OH Kevin Y. 4 - A18 20 Hills Fencing Institute (H3) / University Of Michigan Fencing Club 2786 1780 22.6 7%
Pool
D 1:5 WOZNIAK Sebastian 15 - B18 11 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2937 1758 13.8 4%
Pool
D 4:5 CASTELLANOS Rene E. 40 - D17 37 Fencing Center Of Chicago 2066 1744 72.6 32%
T64
D 4:15 OH Kevin Y. 4 - A18 20 Hills Fencing Institute (H3) / University Of Michigan Fencing Club 2225 2079 363.2 44%

2019 IFC Div 2 & Y12 Tournament--3 Weapons

Div II Mixed Épée C1, DV2 March 24, 2019

Place 21 of 22 Seed 15 Not ranked Rating U Illinois Fencers Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 3:5 MILLER Joshua J. 7 - D15 8 Illinois Fencers Club / Deerfield Highland Park High School 2932 2289 94.6 22%
Pool
D 1:4 NESTEROV Andrew E. 10 - E19 5 Illinois Fencers Club 2419 2194 151.7 38%
Pool
D 3:5 WANG William 20 - U 12 - - - -
Pool
D 4:5 DINKINS Shuayb 17 - U 14 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2070 2043 156.8 49%
Pool
D 1:5 NIKOLS Costa 2 - C18 2 Fencing Center Of Chicago 2481 1886 60.0 21%
T32
D 10:15 RAZA Nadia A. 21 - U 12 Illinois Fencers Club - - - -

2019 IFC Div. 3 & Y12 Tournament--3 Weapon

Div III Mixed Épée D1, DV3 February 24, 2019

Place 13 of 18 Seed 17 Not ranked Rating U Illinois Fencers Club

Bout Score Opponent Seed Rank Rating Place Club Opponent
Strength		 Strength Change Win
Chance
Pool
D 0:5 LASKA Patryk 9 - E18 8 Illinois Fencers Club 2741 2500 403.5 42%
Pool
D 2:5 MILLER Joshua J. 3 - D15 5 Illinois Fencers Club / Deerfield Highland Park High School 2500 2097 234.7 37%
Pool
V 5:3 RICKERT Michael A. 10 - E17 10 Purdue Fencing Club-Purdue Univ. / Northwest Indiana Fencing Club 2373 1862 428.5 31%
Pool
V 5:2 GAVINI Manish 15 - U 18 1714 2290 138.1 72%
Pool
D 4:5 SVIRINOVSKYI Illia 4 - E19 3 2898 2429 139.6 30%
T16
D 3:15 CANCELO Jose 2 - D15 6 Windy City Fencing-Chicago 2500 2500 420.5 50%