2023 New England WSO Championship

Our team competed at The 2023 New England WSO Championship at The American Heritage Museum September 23rd and 24th. With a roster of seven athletes participating across various sessions throughout the competition. From a coaching perspective it was probably one of the more relaxed competitions I’ve coached at.

Each of our athletes had goals that they wanted to breath life into while on the competition platform. As examples, Tom Farina wanted to break the New England record for his age and weight in the snatch and clean and jerk. He broke the snatch record at 47 kg but was unable to break through on the clean and jerk. Sarah Barlow also wanted to break some New England records in her age and weight categories and came through with a 50kg snatch, but wasn’t able to put it together on the clean and jerk.

Other goals going into the meet:

Nicolle Durkee: Wanted to attempt 90kg clean and jerk on the platform and was called for a sliught pressout but 90kg was a clean PR.

Josh Frank: Wanted to cut down to a 102kg lifter. As a bigger goal Josh has been working towards being in a lighter weight class and he was able to weigh in under 102kg.

Sonia Aumen: Had a goal to be more confident with her jerks and hit a 65kg clean and jerk while her 1rm is 67kg.

Mariah Zirkelbach: Had set a goal of having a great competition. She did just that with going 4 for 6 and being very close to her 1rm clean and jerk at 85kg.

Elsbeth Paige-Jeffers: Going into this meet life had been a bit chaotic, and didn’t even know if she would make it for weigh ins. So her goals were to have fun. She had fun and also came in first in the Open 71kg category.