Hailee Lollar, a senior at Foothill High, won in the 58 kilogram (127 lb) weight class in the Olympic Snatch and Clean and Jerk at the Don Wilson Golden West Open. The Don Wilson Open is a Pacific Weightlifting Association (PWA) sanctioned event. PWA is Northern California’s local weightlifting committee of USA Weightlifting. It covers California from south of Fresno to the Oregon border and includes ten western counties of Nevada.
Lollar a relative new comer to the sport blasted the competition with a final lift of 64 kilos (140.8 lbs) in the Olympic Snatch and 78 kilos (171.6 lbs) in the Clean and Jerk setting the record for school age and junior divisions. Those two lifts combined gave a total of 142 kilos which is also a new record. Hailee Lollar trains at CrossFit Redding with Coach Bryan. “No small feat!” says Bryan Schenone, Head Coach of the Redding Barbell Club, located inside Crossfit Redding. “Hailee has been training hard and it has paid dividends!” Hailee is currently ranked 2nd Nationally, in the Junior 58K Class.
With this accomplishment under her belt Lollar qualified to compete at the American Open December 2nd-4th in Mobile, Alabama and then onto the USA Weightlifting Junior Nationals January 27th-29th in Chicago. Lollar comes from a family of athletes. Her father, Lance Lollar, a local chiropractor, was a nationally ranked mountain biker in the early nineties. Her family, as well as Coach Bryan, will be traveling with her to the American Open and for the Junior Nationals.
“Weightlifting is difficult and can be frustrating, disappointing and defeating. A lift that you successfully completed 100 times before in training can become the weight of the world crushing down on you at competition. Training consists of the same movements day after day at heavy uncomfortable loads,” commented Coach Schenone. At CrossFit Redding and Redding Barbell Club, many athletes like Lollar take this in stride, at times they can be seen laughing and even texting in between lifts.
For the full results: http://www.lifttilyadie.com/Results/11GldWst.htm
-from press release
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