There's some breakage of skin, but it's not too bad. There are several top-notch fencers in the Nashville area, including Stephanie Eim and Zoe Hawes. Eim finished second in the NCAA tournament as a freshman in epee for Penn State, which won its fifth straight national championship last season. Hawes competed in last year's World Military Games in the foil and she finished 18th in the NCAA tournament at Air Force in 1998. Murfreesboro's Pete Norris has fenced with Szarwark for the past two years and she gives him quite a battle.
Case has quite a bit of potential.
It's just a matter of honing it. Szarwark also plays tennis for Harpeth Hall, but her future appears to be with a sword instead of a racket. She has the skills to make it in the top eight at the World Championships. It depends how she deals with the stress. There will be 160 fencers with the same skill level.