APA  Great Lakes Regional Championships

Powerlifting
Name	State	wgt	div	cat	Sq 1	Sq 2	Sq 3	B 1	B 2	B 3	Sub	DL 1	DL 2	DL 3	Total
Maureen Levanti	IL	121.8	123	T2	-160	170	190	90	100	-105	290	150	165	180	470
Nick Crafton	MO	145.6	148	T2	225	250	-275	135	-150	-150	385	315	-355	-355	700
Chad Hay	IL	154.2	165	O	290	310	330	-240	-250	250	580	280	335	375	955
Katie Levanti	IL	164.2	165	W-jr	280	305	315	130	-140	-140	445	240	265	280	725
Eric Stone	IL	173.6	181	T3	430	485	515	250	300	-320	815	395	440	455	1270
Jeffery Van Etten	IL	181.6	181	O&S	315	335	345	230	-260	-260	575	370	395	420	995
Gabriel Allen	MO	181.4	181	T2	225	-275	-275	-225	225	-245	450	350	405	425	875
Nathan Gentges	MO	176.4	181	T2	-455	-455	-455			0		0			0
Bruce Sadler	MO	187.2	198	T2	335	375	-400	215	-230	230	605	420	465	-480	1070
Mike Levanti Jr.	IL	209.8	220	JR	405	-450	-475	315	330	-350	735	450	475	500	1235
Joshua Hurdle	MO	204.8	220	T2	230	245	-260	135	155	-170	400	220	275	300	700
Dennis Schar	IL	214	220	O&S	-580	-580	-580	0							0
Rob Hernandez	IL	238.2	242	O	585	-650	-650	-425	425	-460	1010	585	640	660	1670
Mark Stevens	IL	240.8	242	M 2	545	600	0	55	0		795	565	615	-630	1360
Al Baehr	IL	257.4	275	O	450	525	555	-415	415	-435	970	630	680	700	1670
Amy Morrow	IL	*	Unl	W-S	315	340	370	150	165	-170	535	315	350	365	900
Benchpress
Name	State	wgt	div	cat	Sq 1	Sq 2	Sq 3	B 1	B 2	B 3	Sub	DL1	DL 2	DL 3	Total
Steve Harring	IL	162.6	165	S				275	300	-325	300				300
Walter Anczerewicz	IL	195.4	198	M5				250	-285	-285	250				250
Mike Levanti	IL	219.8	220	M3				340	360	-370	360				360
Mario Debenedetti	IL	234	242	S				420	450	-475	450				450
Joe Leineberg	IL	271.6	275	O				410	450	-475	450				450
Push/Pull
Name	State	wgt	div	cat	Sq 1	Sq 2	Sq 3	B 1	B 2	B 3	Sub	DL 1	DL 2	DL 3	Total
Stacie Sakai	IL	121.4	123					125	135	-145	135	205	225	240	375
Alex Hernandez	IL	182.4	198	O				315	350	-365	350	405	445	480	830
Eric Bruno	IL	193	198	S				250	265	280	280	315	365	405	685
Deadlift
Name	State	wgt	div	cat	Sq 1	Sq 2	Sq 3	B 1	B 2	B 3	Sub	DL 1	DL 2	DL 3	Total
Stacie Sakai	IL	121.4	123	WO							0	205	225	240	240
Jim Metzger	IL	197.6	198	M2							0	500	530	-550	530
Jonathan Stevens	IL	233.4	242	O							0	490	545	560	560

    I was invited by Eric Maroscher to run this meet at the venue he provided. A high school gym, equipped with a monolift, an oakie deadlift bar, and any combination of weights a person could want. My host even provided 1 ¼ lb plates in case someone needed them to break a record. Eric Maroscher and the Maroscher Powerlifting team set this venue up with great pride and enthusiasm. I am indebted to them for the efforts they put forth.
   What makes a meet work is the volunteers. And we had some tremendous volunteers. For starters Dave Amdur and Paul Young showed up to serve as spotter/loaders. Joining them was a friend of Jeff Van Etten’s. Top that off with Amy Morrow’s oldest son Michael Morrow. And we had a fantastic team who caught a few bars in the nick of time to save the lifters. After he had bombed Dennis Schar joined the team …WHAT CLASS! What an outstanding job they did.
  Our judges were DeEdwin Shaw, Lynn Kartel, and my wife, Penny Broeg.
  We had 3 teams represented; though none of them entered as teams. This was too bad as the competition would have been tremendous.
  One team that really impressed me was Team Levanti. The Levanti Team consisted of Katie Levanti, Maureen Levanti, Mike Levanti Jr. Mike Levanti, and Chad Hay. The Levanti Team added a whole new meaning to “the family that pulls together”.  All left trails of state and regional records.
  We also had a team of 16-year-old young men from Sedalia MO. These guys had plenty of heart. And it would be great to see more of them in the future. I love seeing our nation’s youth so involved in something as positive as Powerlifting these days. This group included Nathan Gentges who unfortunately could not register a squat and bombed. Gabe Allan, Bruce Sadler, Nick Crafton, and Joshua Hurdle.
  Finally there were 3 members of Maroscher Powerlifting Team moving the heavy iron. This is a fantastic up and coming team. Well represented by some of the most talented and most polite people I have ever met. Members of the Maroscher Powerlifting Team included Jim Metzger, Mario Debenedetti, and Amy Morrow who truly showed us how to move heavy iron and look pretty doing it.
  Hopefully these three teams will come together again to do battle on Burlington Iowa turf.
  I think the highlight of the day was big Al Baehr who came in still under the weather from a nasty cold or flu bug. Al still was not looking too good. Yet set PR’s across the board. Al had told me a couple days before the meet that his big goal was to total 1600. He got that total with his opening deadlift! Al went on to pull a MONSTER 700lbs for the last lift of the day. This was a tremendous day for someone healthy, let alone someone who almost cancelled out of the meet because he was sick.
Many thanks go to those who sponsored this meet; Milano’s Bakery who provided plenty of hi energy snacks, Crain’s Muscle World who provided gift certificates for the lifters, Eric Maroscher and Maroscher Powerlifting team who invited me to run the meet in the school, and of course Rich East High School for providing the venue.