USAWA

By Eric Todd

Well, the 2021 postal series is all wrapped up. The results are all in and tallied, so it is time to reflect on the postal series for the year.  We had a total of 35 lifters participate in at least one leg of the postal this year.  That compares to 39 in 2020 (which I attribute to covid due to the postals being about all we could compete it), 29 in 2019 and 28 in 2018.  I could go further back and might at some point, but you can see 35 was a pretty good turnout for us.  We offer a special recognition for those who compete in all 4 legs known as the Grand Slam Champions.  This year that title goes to the following lifters: Abe Smith, John Carter, Randy Smith, Dave DeForest, Nick Frieders, Barry Pensyl, Dave Hahn, Anthony Hose, Denny Habecker, Eric Todd, Chris Todd, Bill Clark, Lance Foster, Sylvia Stockall, RJ Jackson, Beth Skwarecki, Phoebe Todd, and Janet Thompson. Here are the overall postal series top lifters for 2021:

Women’s top 5

Men’s top 10

What if find remarkable is that the top 6, and 7 of the top 10 men’s lifters come from Clark’s Gym.  They have put together a heck of a year.  I look forward to what 2022 brings.  Good job to all of our postal lifters.  We need to keep this great series moving forward!

By Eric Todd

The record list is now updated through the Gold Cup.  Please take a look at it and be sure your records are correctly recorded.  You will need to make me aware of any corrections within 90 days of 1-4-22 in order to receive credit of them.  Once again, a huge thank you to our records director, John Strangeway, for taking on this task for the benefit of us all.

By Eric Todd

I have had a few questions in regard to the record list of late and wanted to make you all aware of some features that give you, the lifter, a little more autonomy when perusing the record list.

1-While it used to be that we just had the record list where you had the lifts in alphabetical order.  While not difficult to navigate, it is a huge list and can be a little overwhelming at times.  We still have that option, but when Johnny took over as records director, he added a “record grid” option which is similar to how Chris Bass records the IAWA records.  Here are the steps one would take to access the record grid option:  First, download the file.  At the bottom left of the excel spreadsheet, there are two tabs.  The first is “record list”, the second is “record grid.”  Click on the “record grid” option to access it.  Once you are on the record grid, click “enable editing.”  That allows you to navigate the record grid as you please. At the top of the spreadsheet, you will see a cell that says “lift” with a cell directly to the right of it with the name of a lift.  Mine says “vertical bar-2 bars 2”.”Click on the lift itself, and you will see a list of all of the lifts in alphabetical order for you to choose from.  To the right of that, you will see a cell that says “sex” where you can choose from the male records for the lift or the female records for that lift.

2-You also have the capacity to sort the record list in any way you see fit once you have downloaded it.  Download the file.  Click “enable editing.”  At the top of the spreadsheet, you will see a label for each column with an arrow next to it.  I often want to see a list of my records or those of my kids.  So, I would click the arrow next to lifter.  I would then choose the option “sort A to Z.”  This then sorts the entire record list in alphabetical order by lifters last name.  So, at that point, I would scroll down to the T’s and find my name or the name of my children.  And I would be able to see every record we hold all together in one place.

Hopefully these directions make sense and allow you a couple more options when looking over the record list.  Please reach out if you have any questions about this.