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GULFCOAST LIFTERS EXCEL AT 2008 SUNSHINE GAMES
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GULFCOAST LIFTERS HIT IT BIG AT THE 2008 USA WEIGHTLIFTING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Columbus, Ohio - The 2008 USA Weightlifting National Championships, an Olympic Qualifier, was held in the midst of the Arnold Sports Festival this past weekend, exposing a whole new audience to some of the strongest, quickest, most explosive athletes in the world of sport.

Team Florida Gulfcoast, a not for profit sports and lifestyle education program serving the youth and young adults of the Florida Gulfcoast communities, was well represented. Pat Judge, a former football player at Cardinal Mooney High School in Sarasota, won his first national championship in BIG fashion, finishing the meet with the heaviest lifts of the weekend...he snatched 162 kg ( 356.4 lbs) and clean and jerked 205kg ( 451 lbs) to total 367 kg ( 807.4 lbs), personal bests in each category. He was a perfect six for six, making every lift. Read more...



SEE TEAM FLORIDA GULFCOAST LIFTERS IN ACTION

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RESULTS FROM THE OLD SCHOOL OPEN

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TEAM FLORIDA GULF COAST AT THE
OLD SCHOOL OPEN


Pictured above: Shelton Gilyard, Jonathon Garcia, Ryan Borges, Jordan Borges, Sydney Borges, Emily Borges, Ryan Milmoe, Virgil Young, Jason Aun, Jessica Fides, Joyce Kaufmann, Samantha Kaufman, Allison Davis, Tim Hedley, Andrew Sweeney, and Brittney Benson.



Contact Team Florida Gulf Coast
325 Cattlemen Road, Unit B
Sarasota, Florida 34232
941-342-0454


 

President- Rich Lansky
Vice President- Dan Camargo
Sec./Mem. Chairperson- Jesse Reynolds
Treasurer- Amanda Cox
Athlete Rep.- Virgil Young
Athlete Rep.- Jessica Fides

MISSION STATEMENT

Team Florida Gulfcoast Weightlifting, Inc is a Sarasota-Manatee based not for profit sports and lifestyle education program that uses the drug-free Olympic sport of Weightlifting as a vehicle to improve the physical, psychological, and social well being of the Florida Suncoast's youth and young adults.

Our members range from 6 years old to 60 years old, with an emphasis on programming that makes a positive impact on the lives of young pople, teaching them lifeskills and building character at the same time as they improve their health and physical well being.

Members have gone on to represent the USA at international competitions around the world, have earned scholarships to the Olympic Education Training Center and the Olympic Training Center, and have gone on to become successful in their professional careers as teachers, coaches, clergy, healthcare professionals, law enforcement agents, firefighters, lawyers, physicians and professional athletes.

Come check us out and learn an Olympic discipline...even if you never choose to compete, the value of developing positive values like hard work, discipline, dedication and regular healthy activity will have a long lasting effect on your lives in all aspects of your life.