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Record list updated

USAWA Members:

We have the records list updated through the records days that were held during the weekend of October 11th-12th 2024. As promised we will update the century club every quarter. Congratulations to Jeff Wenzel and Leroy Todd who are new members to the Century Club. Also, congratulations to Lisa Gore who became the 10th female member to join the century club. As usual, please let me know if you find anything that needs fixing. Email me at lupoa0313@gmail.com. 

Sincerely,

Tony Lupo

Team records update

Dear USAWA:

After some research, I think the Team Records are up to date through 30 September 2024. I could not find team records performed during late 2021 – February 2024. If you are aware of any team records set, or there are any issues with past team records, please e-mail me. Since March of this year, there has been renewed interest in Team Lifts. I think I found them all through the 3rd Quarter, but if I missed any, please let me know. 

What to do with team records? The individual records are the centerpiece of USAWA records, so the number of individual records will not include team records. Thus, the “Century Club” will only include the individual records. However, each quarter, I’ll publish the top team duets of all time as well as the top 10 individuals who set team records. Every year, we’ll publish the number of “combined records” for those in the Century Club, but it will appear under the Team Records information. 

Thank you! 

Tony Lupo

DuosDownload

New records director, records update, and Century Club update!

By Tony Lupo

I am honored to be the new Record Keeper for the USAWA. This is a big job and I hope to live up to the trust put in me by the executive board. I would like to thank my predecessors, John Strangeway and Abe Smith. They did a great job keeping the list intact. It is a huge job.

I also want to thank Sanjiv Gupta for his help as well. Since the Nationals, Sanjiv, Abe, and I have acted as a team in all things. The records are now up-to-date through the Second Quarter Postals (6/30/2024). If you spot any errors in your records, let me know! I can be reached at lupoa0313@gmail.com.

We should have some rapid updates coming out in the next week as we work through July, then August, and September. After we get caught up, then we’ll tackle the TEAM LIFT file.

Welcome and congratulations to newcomers Stacy Todd and Allison Lupo to the Century Club on the Women’s side! On the men’s side, welcome and congratulations to Clint Poore, John Carter, and Joshua Monk! Thank you all! 

Updated Record List

By Al Myers

I just put up an updated Record List on the website. With the new record list, I also updated the CENTURY CLUB. Not alot of changes in the CENTURY CLUB.  The Club still stands at 4 women and 25 men – the same as before.

The Womens Century Club doesn’t leave much new to report. RJ still leads the way with 296 USAWA records.

The Mens Century Club is still lead by our Prez, Denny Habecker, with 591 USAWA Records! Denny will hit the 600 mark by next count!!!  There were a couple of changes in the rankings with Dean Ross moving up to 4th, passing John McKean. Since the last count, Dean has set an additional 42 records! That’s the most of anyone in the USAWA.  Chad Ullom moved up from 9th to a tie at 8th with the LEGEND Frank Ciavattone at 286 records. Chad was the 2nd biggest “increaser” with 26 new records. LaVerne Myers moved up from 13th to 12th, passing Scott Schmidt. Both of these two have been increasing their records pretty steady over the past few years, and have stayed within “striking distance” of each other. Bill Clark lost the most records, down 19 but still holds the 11th spot.  However, I bet it won’t be long and LaVerne and Scott will ecclipse him if Bill doesn’t get back on the platform in the USAWA.  Eric Todd made the biggest jump in ranking, going from 22nd to 20th with the addition of 11 new USAWA records.

Now for my prediction of who will be the NEXT member of the CENTURY CLUB –

……  I’m going to go with Jeff Ciavattone.  Jeff has been lifting off and on in the USAWA for over 20 years and is getting close.  He currently holds 90 records, so all its gonna take is a couple more meets for him to make it.

Longshots to get in soon – Dan Wagman and Abe Smith.  Both of these guys are over 90 records now, but it all depends of when and how often they plan to compete in the future.  I hope by me calling them “longshots” that will serve as a little motivation!

Welcome Barry to the Club!

By Al Myers

I just got done updating the USAWA Record List and the Century Club.  And to my excitement we have a new USAWA Century Club member, and that is BARRY PENSYL. The Century Club is for an inclusive group of All Rounders who hold over 100 USAWA records. It’s not easy to exceed 100 records in our organization, and often takes many years.  Barry has been working towards this for a long, long time.   His first USAWA record was set in 1990 at the Nationals in Akron!  So this has been a 27 year project for Barry! Big congrats Barry from myself and the rest of the USAWA.

Other than that, there were not any really big changes in the CENTURY CLUB. Our Prez Denny still holds the big lead over the rest of the field in the Mens Club, with a total of 575 USAWA Records. RJ still holds the top Women’s spot in the Womens Century Club and is closing in on 300 USAWA Records.  In the Men’s Club all the top ten members either stayed the same or increased their record count.  In the Womens Club all four members stayed the same or increased their count.  The Men’s Century Club now stands at 25 members with the addition of Barry.  The biggest record “increasers” since last count were: RJ (+17), Denny (+15), LaVerne (+11), and myself (+19).  Not much changed in the overall order – the women’s Club stayed the same and only two changes happened in the Mens Club.  LaVerne moved past THE LEGEND Howard Prechtel to 13th place, and ET moved up a place to 22nd.  One thing had me really concerned when updating this list, and that is that I found a “record error” with Dave Glasgow, who’s barely holding in the Century Club with an even 100 records.  Apparently I had made a previous mistake in the Record List by attributing a record to Dave, when it should have went to his Uncle Kenny!  So I had to made the correction which would have meant Dave had not officially reached the Century Club – but to my good luck I got to add a record for Dave when I added the Strict Pinch Grip to the Record List so he’s still in with his count of 100.  But PLEASE DAVE set a few more so you will no longer be on the “cut line”!

I’ve always been pretty good at predicting who the next Century Club member will be. I “nailed it’ with Barry, and with Eric and Randy before as well.  Now who do I predict it will be now?  My bet is on Dan Wagman! Dan is standing at 90 Records and it wouldn’t take him much work to get 10 more.  But that depends on Dan not going “off the grid” in the near future, which with Dan you never know!  So I’m going to hedge my bet and throw out another name for a future Century Club member.  Abe Smith is currently standing at 91 USAWA Records, and has shown interest in lifting this spring in the USAWA. His odds are very good that he will make the Club as well.

Be sure to check out the latest Record List update.

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