The Year So Far.

It's been a massively busy year in terms of competitions. These competitions have ranged from Club Competitions, Regional, National and International competitions - it's been a really big year for my team, and I couldn't be more proud!
I even got back into competing myself. 

Some of the team who competed at Battle of the Bar 2022

This year we've had Bettina compete at her first competition and absolutely smash it - winning both Open and Juniors with a number of NW Records. This performance then led to a bench only win in the All England's, as well as being picked to represent the North West in the Inter Regional Competition. The year will be rounded out pretty nicely with a Bench Only performance at the Commonwealth in New Zealand this December.

We had a team go out to compete at Raw Strength in March, including Joe, Victor, Dennis and Christina. Which led to a Gold medal for Joe, Dennis and a British qualification for Christina! 

March saw Dennis and Christina compete at Raw Strength which then led to British Single Lifts in the ABPU with Dennis winning his weight class and Christina finishing third. Both of them went on to compete at Bench Worlds in September and both winning Gold Medals.

While on the topic of bench only, we also had Sheina Kaye compete in British, Worlds and Euros bench. 
Sheina did amazingly well to even turn up at Worlds Bench after being in hospital for a week just before it. 

The early summer saw an introduction to compete for Sophie and Joe in a Club Competition held in Raw Strength. Both have gone on to make massive Personal Bests since and it was a great competition. 

ABPU British was next - which saw Katie McGurk, Christina, Dennis, Hodgy and Piotr all competing. They all did incredibly well and hit competition PBs along the way. 

Later in the Summer we had a big turn out at Battle of the Bar, which included my first return to the platform in 2.5 years. I'm pretty happy with my own performance there, to be honest. 
The picture at the top is from Battle of the Bar. 

We then had a small team go out to compete at Raw Strength in September, Sophie, myself and I also handled coach Beata. Sophie got a nice 2nd place finish in the 57s, Beata got 1st place and 2 Northwest records and I got a 1st place and a few PBs. 

The next big one is Northwest Championships for myself, Sophie and Beata followed by Bettina's bench only in the Commonwealth in early December and then a big ABPU qualifier the weekend after.
​ A lot of competitions and a lot more left to do this year!

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Another big announcement is that myself and James Kennedy have been appointed as the University of Liverpool's Powerlifting Team Coaches. We're aiming for a strong turn out at British University Championships in 2023, as well as a big turnout in terms of new lifters getting into powerlifting via the Uni team. 

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It's been a busy year! But as always feel free to get in touch regarding coaching, powerlifting or the University team.