{"id":340874,"date":"2026-07-15T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340874\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T13:22:52","slug":"10-year-old-tampa-fencer-wins-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/340874\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old Tampa fencer wins national championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 In the inaugural Olympic Games in 1896, there were just nine sports included in the competition. Fencing was one of those sports, and it is still going strong today.<\/p>\n

The sport itself can be difficult to understand and certainly difficult to play, but the Tampa Fencing Academy<\/a> helps kids like Beata Jubilee get the hang of it.<\/p>\n

“First thing is to be confident because if you\u2019re not confident on the strip you\u2019re not really gonna do good and second thing always think strategically because if you don\u2019t think strategically because this is mostly a thinking sport it\u2019s more mental than physical,” Jubilee said.<\/p>\n

Jubilee seems to have it all figured out, and she’s only 10 years old! She started when she was seven, watching her older sister play it, so she ditched gymnastics and gave it a try.<\/p>\n

“I love making new friends because you can travel all around the world and make new friends. It\u2019s just so fun because I\u2019m a social butterfly and I always meet new friends at tournaments,” Jubilee said.<\/p>\n

She made some friends and perhaps some enemies earlier this year at the USA Fencing<\/a> Y10 Epee National Competition. She cleared pool play and direct eliminations and won the national championship. She is now the No. 1 ranked 10-year-old fencer in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I just tried my best and said, \u2018Don\u2019t stress it. It\u2019s OK if you don\u2019t get, like, first, first place.\u2019 But, surprisingly, I got first place,\u201d Jubilee said.<\/p>\n

“Her natural skills because she\u2019s a natural and the work that she does with us here stability, fencing is building character, building effort, building resilience,” Tampa Fencing Academy coach Enrique Claro said.<\/p>\n

Now, Jubilee is already filling up her trophy case. She went to the USA Fencing national championships<\/a> in Portland, Oregon last week and won a bronze medal in Y10 Epee, holding onto her spot as the No. 1 ranked 10-year-old fencer.<\/p>\n

After all these achievements, it’s safe to say she’s getting pretty popular in school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018No way.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018yeah\u2019 and they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh my gosh, Beata, you did so good.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Thank you,\u2019 and they said, \u2018We\u2019re gonna need to add this on your poster.\u2019 I was like, poster what?\u201d Jubilee said.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t just get a poster. Her parents made her a batch of Beata Bobbleheads!<\/p>\n

Now, Jubilee will keep training and get ready for the next jump up to Y12 competition when she turns 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m working on better strategies, maybe to do better fakes so I can lure in the opponent and take six and stuff, and yeah, just improve in fencing,\u201d Jubilee said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s the type of person that \u2014 I have this saying \u2014 whatever I throw at her, she catches it and says, \u2018What else you got?\u2019 OK, not once does she say, \u2018I don\u2019t want to go to fencing practice.\u2019 Not once does she say, \u2018I\u2019m tired,\u2019\u201d said James Jubilee, Beata\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

Beata is also on the dance team at school and plays piano, models, and acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 In the inaugural Olympic Games in 1896, there were just nine sports included in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[767,3076,1238,274,770,1236,1548,2200,2204,115,275,110,135,137,136,278,2032,835],"class_list":["post-340874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-community","tag-app-good-news","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-community-news","tag-florida-sports","tag-good-news","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-instagram-n13","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}