State Championship Power Lifting

Congratulations goes out to the Football team who went to Kenton High School this past weekend and finished 3^rd  out of the 24 qualifying schools at the State Power Lifting Championship.   The Power Lifters had a strong showing by lifting 13, 055 Pounds.  Thirteen Thousand Pounds was also a team high for this year’s team.   This was Sidney’s second year of Powerlifting under second year Football Coach Dan Cairns.  The team has showed nice progress over the last two years improving its 4^th place finish at the State Championships last year and increasing its total team weight by 500 Pounds.  It also marked the first time this year that the team did not win a meet.   The team had been previously undefeated in local and regional meets this year but lost out to perennial State Powers Kenton High School and Brookside High School.   Brookside H.S. is from the Cleveland area which also happens to be the school where Dan Cairns was at prior to Sidney H.S.  and where they had won several State Championships under him.

“Overall I was extremely happy with our performance”   said Dan Cairns.   We got better every meet this year and showed improvement from last year to this year with our team total and team finish.   We have closed the gap a little bit more with Brookside and Kenton and showed them that we were not a one year fluke and that we are here for the long haul.   We opened some eyes last year and knocked on the door this year.   Next year we hope to knock that door down. 

Top 3 Teams in the Boys Big School Division State Championship was;

1. Kenton H.S. – 13,620 Lbs.
2. Brookside H.S. – 13,560 Lbs
3. Sidney H.S. – 13,045
4. Marysville H.S. – 12,455
5. Beaver Local H.S. – 12,380

Top finishers for the Yellow Jackets were:

Alex Adams finished 8^th in the 185 Lb weight class

Mark Ahrens – 4^th in the 175 Lb weight class

Bruce Bell – 11^th in the 185 Lb weight class

Aric Eppley – 6^th in the 155 Lb weight class

Wes Eppley  - 12^th in the Unlimited weight class

Brendon Erb – 1^st place in the 225 Lb. weight class

Dustin Greggory – 12 in the 225 Lb weight class

Justin Griffis – 5^th in the unlimited weight class

Aace Johnson – 6^th in the 250 Lb weight class

Jay Lee – 10^th  in the Unlimited weight class

Austin McVety – 10 in the 155 Lb weight class

Dany Neth – 3^rd in the 145 Lb weight class

AJ Shoffner – 12 in the 135 Lb weight class

Arie Tompson – 6^th in the 185 Lb weight class

Nic Waters – 2^nd place in the 145 Lb weight class

Jordan Young – 4^th in the 135 Lb weight class.

A few of the highlights of the meet were:

• Brendon Erb  - State Champ in the 225 Lb weight class with a total of 1,360 Pounds.  Erb also took 1^st place in the Dead lift with a personal best of 555 pounds. 

• Dan Neth – 3^rd place finish to go along with first place in the dead lift with a lift of 420 pounds in the 145 Lb weight class.

• Defending State Champion in the 250 Lb. weight class, Tyler Jonas – failed to even place because of missing all 3 attempts at his opening weight in the dead lift, despite a promising start to the day.

Congratulations also goes out to the Girls Power Lifting Team who finished 2^nd out of 8 qualifying schools at the Girls State Championships.  This was also a step forward for the girls powerlifters who finished 3^rd in last years State Championship.   Sidney Girls Coach Darin Applegate echoed the sentiments of boys coach Dan Cairns.   He thought the team made progress every week and took a huge step forward from where they were last year as a team. 

Top 5 Teams in the Girls Division Big School State Championship was;

1. Alter High School
2. Sidney High School
3. Loveland High School
4. Lincoln West
5. Sandusky

Top finishers in their respective weight classes for the girls were:

Allison Cavinder who finished  3^rd in her weight class

Jessica Griffis – 2^nd  in her weight class

Jessica Hand – 4^th in her weight class

Kearstin Holsopple –2^nd in her weight class

Sasha Hoover – 3^rd in her weight class

Tiffany Lambert – 6^th in her weight class

Stephanie Miller – 5^th in her weight class

Kristen Roby – 1^st in her weight class

Kyla Stratton 4^th in her weight class.

A few of the highlights of the meet were:

• Kristen Roby – State Champion in her weight class as well as having the top bench, squat and dead lift in her entire group.
• Kearstin Holsopple – had the top squat her weight class
• Allison Cavinder had the top bench in her weight class

Once again Congratulations goes out to the entire SIDNEY POWERLIFTING  TEAM, for a great showing this year at the state Championships.