Number One High School Power Clean: Girls
Portland. coach Ron James and their football coach Dave Ackerman were Several years ago I did a BFS Clinic at Hillsboro High School, a Knudsen, football coach at Centennial and Faustin Rilley of 7 thru 12 do basically the same program.
Heather Has A Vertical Jump of 21"
And It Shows!
245 Ibs. In Her Senior Year at Hillsboro strate.
Heather Bailey representWe started with the which is our varsity standard for high school women athletes. Well, Heather popped up 95 with ed Hillsboro. great form like it was nothing. went up to the BFS 25-lb. just smiled. then 135 pounds. lift was completed easily. | finally exclaimed, “What's going on here? How much can you do?” modestly told me 185 pounds. Perhaps what threw me was that Heather looked like a model. had wholesome good looks and carried her 160 pounds of bodyweight gracefully on an athletic frame. The only thing I could find noticeably wrong was that sometimes her chin would dip down as shown in the Clean photo. look down also and such is the case in the photo.
tendency for the bar to pull away from the body resulting in a huge Heather Benched 150 Pounds As A Three Sport Athlete 40 loss of potential power. Another thing I always coach, no matter G.P.A.
V.J.
21" seasons overlapped.
1993 track season.
Heather may go into med school after graduation and has She also played basketball. has her ideas on lifting weights. touch if you do it right. academic and athletic awards. help anyone in any sport. ball. more. Heather learned quickly and when we put on 185 pounds, she Power Cleaned this weight for three reps with power to spare. Later, Coach James called to couldn't lift as much.” took 5th in the NAIA Nationals. her coaches. others to strive to emulate........
Sylvia Hathcell, head women’s basketball Carla Garrett can lay claim to that title with a 303 pound clean & Jerk. came on strong.
Metro in Volley-ball and Track. coach at No.3 seed North Carolina, made the followis currently an assistant Strength & Conditioning ing statement after reaching the final four last Coach at The University of Arizona. month.
Carla trained under Meg Richie who is now "At this level, strength is such an important thing in rebounding and defense. We're in the head Strength Coach at Texas Tech. A full feature weightroom twice a week. We will sacrifice a pracarticle on Carla and her technique will be featured in tice to make sure we lift weights."
From BFS Magazine — Summer 1994. Part of the BFS Magazine Archive (1980–2014).
