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Annual Lift-A-Thon

By: Jordan Pasalaqua

This year's Lift-A-Thon will be this Friday at Madison High School in the weight room. It will start at 5:00 to 7:00. The fundraising will be going towards getting weight room equipment and apparel for the school.
The teams participating in this year's lift-a-thon are:
Team 1- Colin Byers, Zach Dowd, Nick Wardrop, Derek Zirkle, and Clay Smith
Team 2 is Ken Cline, Aiden Thompson, Alex Dragas, Alex Parmertor, Noah Sample, and Shane Huber
Team 3 is Caleb Fiorello, Pat Baldree, Adam Grierson, Steven Ludwick, and Seth Fedel
Team 4 is Mark Primer Alex Blackie, Matt Myers, Marshall Vaughn, Manny Dominguez, and Nathan Novak
Team 5 is Max Starke, Chris Kosek, Owen Myers, Dominic Zirkle, and Al Ortiz
Team 6 is Dominic Conforte, Jonas Pinta, Will Weema, Thomas Welch, William Garbacz, and Brayden Johnston
Team 7 is Cameron Luster, Cam Caito, Jacob Fisher, Jacob Land, Zach Simcic, and Cole Tanner
Team 8 is Cody Obradivic, Seth Schrock, Michael Colaneri, Zach Reynolds, Ben Harrison, and Marcel Welch
Team 9 is Jacob Glass, Eddie Jones, Alex Rowe, Michael Woody, Hunter Nadzan, and Eddie Rodriguez.
People who are injured and can not compete are Tyler Watson, Hunter Walker Shane Magda, Anthony Geething, Cade Wakim, Noah Corbett, and Trevin Florian.
Last year 4 boys broke records and got their name but on the boards for squat power, squat speed, clean power, and clean speed. For Squat Power Cerne squatted 495, Mark Primer squatted 425,  J. Thomas squatted 405 and for Squat Speed Norris squated 385.
For Clean Power Mark Primer cleaned 315 and for Clean Speed Caswell cleaned 295. The boys who are still in the number one spot on the board are Howard who benched 365 in 2011 and for Bench Speed T. Law who benched 335 in 2009. Squat Power was Szabodas who squatted 500 in 2005 and for Squat Speed was Nick Law who squatted 435 in 2015. Clean Power was P. Kuntz who cleaned 325 in 2011 and for Clean Speed was Vince Primer who cleaned 305 in 2015.