Tag: weightlifting
Laura Koeppel is head coach of the girls weightlifting team and has built a team of 22 lifters, up from eight in its inaugural season last year....
Come this Saturday, Nicole Simonis and three Chenango Valley students - senior Shannon Kane, sophomore Ranata DeGennaro and eighth-grader Liza Hillegas - will attempt to pick up more weight than they ever have before. They will compete in the USA Powerlifting Women's National Championships, a competition open to women of all ages, in Miami.
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The Spruce Creek High School Hawks have won all five state titles since the Florida High School Athletic Association started sanctioning the sport in 2004. They will go for No. 6 on Saturday, February 14th in New Port Richey....
When Florida's high-school athletic association announced that girls weightlifting would hold its first state championship in 2003 -- and became the only state in the country to do so -- many observers wondered how many girls would show up....
Maureen Clary, 52, can lift in excess of 230 pounds - nearly 100 pounds more than her body weight. She is the top-ranked masters woman champion in the 148-pound division....
Maura Shuttleworth broke the Minnesota state record in her weight class last November when she bench-pressed 180 pounds, and she’s set her sights on the national women’s record of 214 pounds, which she hopes to break within the year....
Kaysie Junco knows how to pull her own weight, and then some! She is a leader in the only state to sanction female high school weightlifting - so far....
Kayla Palmberg's efforts helped the Boca Raton High School Trojans win the women's weightlifting competition over four other Palm Beach Schools. Florida is becoming a national leader in opportunities for female high school weightlifters....
At McGuire Air Force Base, Airman 1st Class Angela Candage is the number one ranked weightlifter in her weight class. In March, she will be competing at the Arnold Classic....
Team USA Weightlifter Melanie Roach lifted a total of 193 kilograms (425.5 pounds) in the women's 53kg division on Sunday, an American record, but she finished in sixth place. ...
