Celeste High School had 37 students participate and compete at a powerlifting meet this year (11 girls, 26 boys).  “From the practice meet we had at the beginning of January to the end of the season, the average improvement on their totals went up by 104.5lbs, which is an incredible amount of improvement for roughly a 2-month period of time.  We are proud of each of our student athletes for all of their accomplishments and how they represented Celeste,” stated powerlifting coach, Blair Elliot.  For regionals, we had 6 girls make it and 13 boys (only 2 schools in our region qualified more guys).  At the regional meets, we had 2 girls and 5 boys qualify for state (along with 3 other guys medaling in the top 5).  Our boys earned enough team points to finish 2nd in the region out of 31 schools and set 6 regional records.

Girls Regional qualifiers and winners: Carley Wren, Riley Almand, Preslee Minter (2nd place), Jahdai Sanchez, McKayela Lyday, Kennedy Compton (2nd place)

Boys Regional qualifiers and winners: Connor Thomas (4th place), Case Reisor (1st place), Sebastian Ortega (4th place), Tristan Slaton, Nick Michka (1st place Regional Total), Grady Ford, Nolan Blackmon (2nd place Regional Bench), Tristan Nichols, Ronnie Russell, Wyatt Noack (1st place Regional Squat, Regional Total), Aiden Giles, Julian Olivares (2nd place Regional Bench, Regional Total), Cash Ottwell (4th place)

At the state meets, Nolan Blackmon and Wyatt Noack finished in the top 5 which gave Celeste an overall finish of 15th out of 87 schools (the amount of team points tied for 9th).  The following students qualified for state:

Girls State Powerlifting qualifiers: Preslee Minter and Kennedy Compton

Boys State Powerlifting qualifiers:  Case Reisor, Nick Michka, Nolan Blackmon (4th place), Wyatt Noack (2nd place) and Julian Olivares

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