Topic: Please Introduce Yourself

[Dave Almeida]

Name: Dave Almeida
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Occupation: University Student
Location: CT, USA
Team: None
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Originally powerlifting
Years involved in weightlifting: The past 2 in powerlifting, the past 2 months             in weightlifting
Athletic achievements: Only some acheivements in baseball, none in weightlifting, yet =)
Role in weightlifting: Soon to be competitor
Coaching/educational credentials:
Favorite weightlifter: Ilya Ilin, Dimas, Kakhiashvili, Marcin Dolega
Interests other than weightlifting: Baseball

[Tim Scanlon]

Name: Tim Scanlon
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Occupation: Science Researcher
Location: Perth, Australia
Team: None
How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Lifting weights and gradually evolved to weightlifting.
Years involved in weightlifting: Good few weeks now. I've always power cleaned, but now learning the rest.
Athletic achievements: Amateur footballer.
Role in weightlifting: Hope to compete once my technique improves.
Coaching/educational credentials: None
Favorite weightlifter: The little chinese girl that C&J'd my deadlift at the olympics.
Interests other than weightlifting: Gym, golf, guitar, piano.

[Bob Feeney]

Name:
Age:
Gender: M

Occupation: Firefighter

Location: Philadelphia,PA

Team: Ironsport Gym(Highlandgames)

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: I left powerlifting because I just always wanted to learn olympic style weightlifting, and I never regret leaving powerlifting

Years involved in weightlifting: 18 months, I guess

Athletic achievements: none to speak of. I did win a local deadlift meet, years ago,lol

Role in weightlifting: beginner

Coaching/educational credentials: none

Favorite weightlifter: Joe Dube

Interests other than weightlifting: highland games, firefighting

Other information you would like to share:I love my gym

[Shawn Thomas]

Name: Shawn Thomas
 Age:34
 Gender:M

 Occupation: Strength & Conditioning Coach own & operate IFC Personal Training Centre, also part of the CrossFit Community (CrossFit South Surrey)

 Location: South Surrey B.C. Canada

 Team: Barbarian Weightlifting Club - Head Coach & competitor

 How did you get involved with weightlifting:In 2000 I took the lev. 1 CAC weightlifting course to apply oly-lifts to my athletes I was coaching. 4 years later I started my own training centre and weightlifting club.

 Athletic Achievements: numerous team and individual accomplishments competing in football, rugby, kickboxing.

 Coaching/Credentials: Certified Strength & Cond. Coach, Medical Exercise Specialist and Weighlifting Coach (CAC) Course Instructor for Lev.1 module

 Favourite Weightlifters: Guy Greavette, Dimas, Evgeny Chigishev, Milen Dobrev

 Other Interests: Politics, reading etc.

[Peter Preis]

Name: Peter Preis

Age: 24

Gender: m

Occupation: finishing school, ice hockey player

Location: Graz, Austria

Team: KSV

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: friend of mine showed me some lifts

Years involved in weightlifting: 4 years (6 months of serious oly lifting)

Favorite weightlifter: Dimas

Interests other than weightlifting: ice hockey

Other information you would like to share:

[Rowan Lean]

Name: Rowan Lean
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Occupation: IT
Location: Sydney, Australia
Team: DFS weightlifting

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?:

I was an Ice hockey player looking for extra conditioning/strength so i enlisted the services of a trainer who is a weightlifting coach.. he got me hooked on it.

Years involved in weightlifting: only been doing it for about 5 months so far! (was an ice hockey player for 11 years )

Athletic achievements: State player for ice hockey, inline hockey - weightlifting nothing yet, but a pathetic 185kg total PR @ 77kg bodyweight

Favorite weightlifter: Le maosheng, li hongli - these buggers are awesome to watch

Interests other than weightlifting: ice hockey, sports in general.

[AaronBell]

Name: Aaron Bell
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Occupation: IT
Location: Southfield, MI
Team: n/a

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?:
I was doing a lot of powerlifting and I met a weightlifting trainer at the gym and got hooked on it

Years involved in weightlifting: about 6 months, powerlifting before that

Interests other than weightlifting: played ice hockey for 13 yrs, MMA fighting

[Andy Dick]

Name: Andy Dick

Age: 24

Gender: M

Occupation: Strength and Conditioning Graduate Assistant/hopefully a coach soon

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Team: Unattached

How did you get started/involved in weightlifting?: Was exposed to power cleans when I was in high school.  I always really liked doing them.  I learned about olympic lifts through college courses and USAW certs.  After undergraduate I decided I wanted to start weightlifting because I enjoyed it so much.

Years involved in weightlifting: 1 year of serious training

Athletic achievements: None to really mention, participated in wrestling, soccer, through out college and dabbled a little in track and field in college

Role in weightlifting: Just starting out haven't competed yet.  Teach olympic lifts and variations to athletes.

Coaching/educational credentials: Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), USAW Sport Performance Coach and Club Coach, Masters Degree in Human Performance

Interests other than weightlifting: wrestling, movies, church, chillin