2025 USAWA NATIONALS

SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2025

LOCATION : DALE HOLLOW LAKE STATE RESORT PARK & CONVENTION CENTER

5970 State Park Rd, Burkesville, KY 42717

WEIGH-INS:  SATURDAY, JULY 19TH @ 8 AM – 9:30 AM ,

NATIONALS LIFTING: 10:00 AM (CENTRAL STANDARD TIME)

THE LIFTS:  

  • HACKENSCHMIDT FLOOR PRESS
  • DINNIE LIFT
  • SAXON DEADLIFT
  • DUMBBELLL TO SHOULDER 

ENTRY DEADLINE – JULY 5, 2025 – Late entries will not be accepted.

ENTRY FEE:  60 dollars and you must register online at the link provided: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usawa-nationals-2025-tickets-946795770637

CONTACT INFORMATION: clintpoore@hotmail.com or by phone at 606-688-2600.

USAWA MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED: Memberships are required for all participants prior to the meet. Please go to USAWA.COM to purchase your memberships prior to the meet. 

AWARDS: Best Lifter Awards to the overall male & female champion, Masters Best Lifter for male & female & medals for all lifters. Each lifter will receive a USAWA NATIONALS t-shirt. You must give your t-shirt size on the online entry form

SCHEDULE: 

FRIDAY – SKD (SOUTHERN KENTUCKY DISTILLERY) tour & Kentucky Bourbon tasting

FRIDAY – USAWA National Meeting at 5pm in Dale Hollow State Park Dining Room. 

SATURDAY- 2025 USAWA NATIONALS in the Dale Hollow State Park Convention Center

HOTEL – Dale Hollow State Park Lodge  phone # 270-433-7431

Group code is   2337 

Group name is – National Weightlifting Association Event

Dale Hollow Lake State Park Lodge has a block of 32 rooms for the USAWA. 

10 rooms are with a view of Dale Hollow Lake & 22 rooms are non-lake view, more rooms can be made available. They are first come first served. If the block fills up early, the lodge may add more rooms to our block. The group rate and block will be released 8 weeks prior to the event. 

This is a destination location for travelers and I highly suggest booking early. 

If you wait, you may not get a room at Dale Hollow State Park Lodge.

  • Lake view rates will be $147.96+ tax per night. (Thursday, Friday & Saturday)
  • Non Lake view room rates will be $128.96+ tax per night. (Thurs, Friday & Saturday)

There are other hotels within a short 15 to 30 minute drive

  • The Alpine Lodge 270-864-7100
  • Baymont by Wyndham 606-492-2258

LOCAL TOUR: We are scheduling a Bourbon tasting tour at SKD (Southern Kentucky Distillery) on Friday. If you are interested in going on a tour of the local Bourbon Distillery and doing some Kentucky Bourbon tasting, please let me know. 

2024 National Championship Meet Results

The 2024 USAWA National Championship was held in Columbia, Missouri last week. Bill Clark, who hosted the meet, writes:

THE CHAMPIONS REIGN –  BETH AND ABE RETAIN TITLES

There was little doubt after the initial event that Beth Skwarecki and Abe Smith would retain their national titles – and so it was – with 18 lifters on hand – the same as the meet drew in 2023.

Clark’s Gym, the meet sponsor for the second year in a row and the fifth time dating back to 1995, 1997 and 2001, won the team title by sweeping the first six places on the men’s side and two of the top four women.

Randy Smith, who came from Upper Michigan, was the men’s runner-up, followed by a pair of newcomers to the Nationals – Philip Marlin in third and Jeff Wenzel in fourth.

Lisa Gore, a gym member for less than two months, took third behind Beth and Stacy Todd. Allison Lupo was a close fourth.

The four Todd kids – two girls and two boys from the homes of Eric and Chris Todd – put on a great demonstration of both skill and strength and showed the flexibility and feel for the game that predicted a bright future – maybe in the Olympic Lift game as well as the odd lifts.

One of the negatives of the championship weekend was the failure of Kevin Fulton to free himself from weather-related farm problems to make it to the meet that was to honor him as a founding leader in the USAWA – the guy for whom the Fulton Bar was named.

Two of the old-timers who have been around for more than three decades were on hand. John Carter finished sixth overall and Denny Habecker, from Lebanon, Pa., was in seventh place. Habecker was the oldest lifter in the meet at 81. He brought along a guest – Steve Gardner, the long-time leader of the IAWA-UK – the British version of the USAWA.

Results are in the attached document.

USAWA-Nationals-2024-resultsDownload

Old Time Strongman Championship

By Eric Todd

Mike Lucht in the Apollon’s Lift

We at KCSTRONGMAN and the House of Iron and Stone will be hosting the thirteenth installment of the Old Time Strongman Championship. The address is Turney, Missouri, but the exact location is God’s Country USA. As usual it will be in early September. We have no running water, but do have an outhouse. We will try to knock down all the spider webs for you. We have no air-conditioning, but it the weather has typically been tolerable for this meet.

The meet does have a strong history. It started back in 2011, when Thom VanVleck held it at his house near Kirksville, MO. The next year it was held in the gym of an old school, and has been at my location ever since. There has been a bit of parity in the men’s division. Chad Ullom has been the most prolific with three titles under his belt. Greg Cook and myself follow with two titles apiece, with five other lifters having won a championship apiece. The women’s division has had only four ladies claim the championship. Phoebe Todd has won the past four times. Prior to that Heather Tully/Gardner won three, with two other female lifters winning a title apiece.

We have typically had a decent turnout for this meet; hopefully this year does the same. The following are the details:

Meet Director: Eric Todd

Location: 10978 SW Pueblo, Turney, MO 64493

Weigh Ins: 9:30

Rules: 10:15

Lifting starts: 10:30

Lifts: Apollon’s Lift, Habecker Lift, Saxon Snatch, Kennedy Lift

Awards: We will have awards for the lifters

Entry form follows:

OTSM-Entry-2024Download
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