State Power Invitational

[time2punt]

North Bullitt HS won the State Push / Pull Power meet today defeating, among others, both Trinity and St. X!

[tdyballgame]

North Bullitt HS won the State Push / Pull Power meet today defeating, among others, both Trinity and St. X!

 

Is this something that is only for football players or are teams like wrestling, track and so forth power lift?

[JCVD]

It's a club sport. All students, both athletes and non-athletes can participate. Generally the majority are football players though.

[JCVD]

Forgot to add congratulations. Great job.

[jolmstead]

Congratulations!

 

What events does this competition entail? Seems like it could be good conditioning motivator. Are there any such clubs in NKy?

[JCVD]

Powerlifting teams are club sports done thru the high schools. Any school can have them.

 

Push/Pull meet is bench and Deadlifts. There are some meets that have squats and cleans. There are also some that have curls as an event, which makes zero sense to me.

[LongTimeReader]

North Bullitt HS won the State Push / Pull Power meet today defeating, among others, both Trinity and St. X!

 

Congrats to North Bullitt!

[ThrillVille Cardinal51]

I wish CovCath would get involved with this kind of stuff. A little extra weight room motivation can't be a bad thing.

[ThrillVille Cardinal51]

Also, Congrats to North Bullitt!

[tdyballgame]

I wish CovCath would get involved with this kind of stuff. A little extra weight room motivation can't be a bad thing.

 

Agreed! Covcath has some monsters down there. I would think they would be very competitive.

[Sweeperboy]

Push, pull, power???

 

This sounds like one of those Monster truck events at the Cinti Gardens...

 

BTW, Congrats to North Bullitt:thumb:

[tdyballgame]

Out of curiosity, is this the final State power meet? What schools have won this say over the last 5 years?

[Voice of Reason]

Is there a link to results? What did the leaders lift in each event?

[nochristmastree]

Trinity's JV team won their division. Madisonville was runner up. I am unaware of any other activity that acknowledges a JV State champion.

 

Varsity: North Bullitt, Trinity, ( I don't recall third), St. Xavier.

 

The event began at 7:30AM with weigh-ins and ended at 5:30PM with the last trophy presentation! The actual meet started around 10:00AM and ended at 3:00PM. It took two hours for tourney folks to tabulate the scores.

It was $10.00 for each contestant and $5.00 for fans. 6 and under were free :-).

 

Participants come and go. Trigg County, Manual, Ballard (few in numbers) used to compete. Yesterday, Holy Cross, Spencer County, Bullitt Central, North Bullitt, Bullitt East, Montgomery County, Madisonville, Fort Knox (also fields the only girls team in the area, I understand there is one other in the state) Trinity and St. Xavier competed.

[nochristmastree]

The season began with official team lifting the first week of October.

 

Trinity participated in three events leading up to the state meet. They lifted against St. Xavier 2/9. They travelled to Spencer County 2/16. They participated in the Holy Cross "Sport" meet in which the clean, the curl, and bench press were contested on 2/23. St. X competed against Trinity, held an intrasquad meet, and then competed yesterday.

 

DeSales and Holy Cross only permit football players. St. Xavier currently does not allow football players to lift. Former Head Coach Mike Glaser feared his players could injure themselves. It will be interesting to see if Coach Wolford changes this policy.

 

Trinity had over 100 come out, including the football players once their season ended. The team was split into competitive and non-competitive groups.