Hometown:

San Angelo; currently stationed at Randolph AFB, San Antonio

Date of Birth:

Sept. 8, 1956

Occupation:

United States Air Force; Master Sergeant in the Services Career Field

Current Wt. Class:

198 lb.

Email Address:

Worldbench_501@yahoo.com

Best Lifts:

Records:

Biography:

I grew up in Bartow, Fla., the county seat in Polk County; an area known for producing world class athletes. As a natural athlete I excelled in sports on and off the field. I attended Bartow Senior High School, where I lettered in several High School sports and garnered two Fla. State High School weightlifting titles in 1974 and 1975 (275 c & j and 315 bench press at 155 body weight). I received an academic and athletic scholarship to South Carolina State College in Orangebug, S.C., but was unable to realize my dream of playing in the collegiate football ranks, due to an injury that still plagues me to this very day. After a year of healing up I started back with serious power training while in school to win several South Carolina State titles and placing in the top five in the National Colligates in 1979. At this point I had lost my athletic scholarship because of the injury and was working part-time to put myself through school. I competed in numerous bodybuilding shows thourghout the Southeast from 1975-1990 winning serveral local, state and regional tiles along the way. I majored in Physical Education with a minor in Biology and graduated on time, then on to work as an educator in the public school system for a few years before enlisting in the United States Air Force.

I have packed on some pounds over the course of the last 17 years when I competed as a light 165-pound lifter. My stats as a 165 pounder were: 6% body fat, arms-18 inches, chest-46 inches and waist 29 inches. But as a full fledge 198 pounder: 10% body fat, arms 19.5, chest -50 inches, and waist 33 inches. I could move some big numbers in any movement in the gym; leg press-1500lbs for mid range reps, dips-300 lbs. for 5 reps, incline bench press 450 for 4 reps, squat 800 for 3 reps., bench 500 for 3 reps and deadlift 720 for 3 reps, seated shoulder press -315 for 5 reps; this all done weighing 200 pound in my early thirties back in the late 1980's.

I have no future plans to compete in the next few years, but the lifting bug might hit me soon...

A Powerful Memory:

My favorite meet was in 1994 when I was deployed to live for five months in field conditions at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey in support of Operation NORTHERN WATCH prior to the 1994 USPF Nationals, I traveled through most of Europe to get back to my home base at Soesterberg Air Base, NL (Netherlands) to get approval to travel back to the USA to lift in the nationals. I went head to head against two former national and world champions (Sly Anderson and George Herring); the placements went down to the last deadlift, I went on to win another world title in Sweden.