American Record-Breaker & Qualifier competition in
POWERLIFITING & SINGLE EVENTS
Hosted by the
AMERICAN DRUG-FREE POWERLIFTING FEDERATION
Early Saturday morning, March 31st, 21 exceptionally strong athletes verged upon The Macomb Salvation Army facility to wreck havoc within the A.D.F.P.F. American Records Book. The options included: POWERLIFTING competition (made up of 3 individual events: the SQUAT, BENCH PRESS & DEADLIFT with the final result being a total of the best of 3 attempts in each event) and/or SINGLE EVENT competition (the athlete selects one or more of any of the 3 individual events. Three of the 21 athletes were women who amazingly established 19 AMERICAN A.D.F.P.F. Records. The men did equally well by setting 54 American A.D.F.P.F. Records. As per the requirements of the A.D.F.P.F. 10% of the participants were drug tested.
The lifters came from Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois. Many of the competitors were WIU alumni some who had competed within the drug-free structure throughout their college years. The youngest lifter was Matthew Taylor of Macomb who at the age of 14 established 4 A.D.F.P.F. American Records in the Teenage 1 Category (limited to ages 14 & 15). Matt’s record lifts included a squat of 198.25 lbs; a bench press of 99 lbs and a deadlift of 209.25 lbs for a 507 lb record-setting Total. The oldest lifter in the meet was Macomb’s Donnie R. Wynn who set 4 A.D.F.P.F. American Records within the Masters’ Category. His results included the following: squat=286.5 lbs; bench press=281 lbs & deadlift=330.5 lbs for a record-setting Total of 898.25 lbs. Donnie is one of The Salvation Army weight room coaches.
Four of the competitors are current WIU students: Kathleen Barclay, Keith Kowalski, Joe Nudo and Ryan Woodward. Seven competitors were WIU Alumni: Jim Bultemeier (Scales Mond, IL), Lisa Mangold (Lakewood, WI), Daren Phelps (Moline, IL), James Rowland (Macomb, IL), Laura A. &. Michel Waller (Lake in the Hills, IL).
BEST female lifter in both UNEQUIPPED & EQUIPPED Divisions was LISA MANGOLD. Placing 2nd & 3rd Best female Lifters in the UNEQUIPPED Division were KATHLEEN BARCLAY & LAURA WALLER. The BEST LIFTER in the UNEQUIPPED Men’s Division was WIU’s Ryan W. Woodward from Geneseo, IL. A clean sweep for 2nd and 3rd place Best Lifters were WIU Alum’s Michael Waller and Daren Phelps. The winner of the Best Lifter award in the EQUIPPED Division was Christopher Forestier of Canton, IL. Placing 2nd & 3rd as Men’s Best Lifter in the EQUIPPED Division was Joe Nudo (Tinley Park, IL) and “Cozy” Cozine (Winfield, IA).
Taking the BEST SQUAT in the meet’s UNEQUIPPED Division was DAREN PHELPS of Moline. Macomb’s JAMES ROWLAND had the 2nd Best Squat with MICHAEL WALLER 3rd and RYAN WOODWARD 4th.
BEST BENCH PRESS of the UNEQUIPPED Division went to Iowa’s NOBLE “COZY” COZINE with RYAN WOODWARD 2nd and BRENT HENRY of Canton, IL 3rd followed by MICHAEL WALLER.
The BEST DEADLIFT of the UNEQUIPPED Division went to WIU’s RYAN WOODWARD. MICHAEL WALLERS was 2nd followed by WIU’s KEITH KOWALSKI and JAMES ROLAND in 3rd & 4th places.
WIU’s Biology Department was represented by the outstanding lifting of Dr. Matt Bonnah who won the 100.0 kilo Class with a total of 755.0 lbs. For lifting specifics including American Record performances, please see the attached meet results.
As an American Record-Breaker and a Qualifying opportunity for International Competition, the meet was a huge success. The American Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation is the U.S. Affiliate to the WORLD DRUG-FREE POWERLIFTING FEDERATION. To qualify for international POWERLIFTING competition the lifters must meet or surpass qualification scores. The following powerlifters qualified to compete on the U.S. Team traveling to the 2007 POWERLIFTING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS held in GRANGEMOUTH SCOTLAND on November 17th (UNEQUIPPED Division) & 18th (EQUIPPED Division):
Unequipped Division: Kathleen Barclay, Lisa Mangold, Laura & Michael Waller, Ryan Woodward and Brent Henry.
Equipped Division: Lisa Mangold, Chris Forestier and Joe Nudo.
All the athletes who participated in the competition qualified for the 2007 SINGLE EVENT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS to be held in MONTESILVANO, ITALY on October 12th (SQUAT competition), 13th (BENCH PRESS competition) & 14th.(DEADLIFT competition).
Much appreciation to all who helped make this meet a success including the outstanding support of The Macomb Salvation Army, Bill Duncan who opened the meet in prayer, Judges, spotters/loaders and scoring table workers who made this competition possible.
On April 14th the Weight Room in The Macomb Salvation Army will host an ODD LIFT competition. The athletes are currently preparing for the competition; time to be posted later.