April – NPC News Online https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com The premier amateur physique organization in the world. Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:00:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.7 https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2018-06-29-at-12.03.52-PM-copy-32x32.png April – NPC News Online https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com 32 32 Grace Ripslinger https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/grace-ripslinger/63451/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:01:48 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63451 Contest History/Highlights 2012 Continental Championships 1st Class C and Overall; Nationals 16th Class D BORN TO COMPETE “Growing up I played soccer, softball, volleyball, and a little basketball. The sport I played and loved the most was soccer; I started at age five and continued playing into my four years of college. I was a natural-born athlete

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]]> Jennifer Childs https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/jennifer-childs/63460/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:01:35 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63460 Contest History/Highlights 2011 Colorado Rocky 1st Class D, 1st Masters 35-39 and Overall; 2010 Junior USA Championships 12th Class D; Mile High Championships 1st Class B; Southern Colorado Championships 1st Class B and Overall GARAGE GYM “Growing up I was always very athletic. I played soccer for 10 years and jazz danced for 20 years. I loved

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]]> Samantha Sage https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/samantha-sage/63468/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:01:26 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63468 NPC Contest History/Highlights 2013 Texas Shredder Classic 1st Teen Figure, 1st Fitness Open Class; Ronnie Coleman Classic 1st Teen Figure 1st Teen Fitness Jr. USA 2nd Place Class B; 2012 Buffalo Championships 3rd Figure Over 5’5 TRICKED OUT “As a young child, I played softball, gymnastics, did karate, and all kinds of dance. Gymnastics was the sport

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]]> Daniel McDonald https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/daniel-mcdonald/63482/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:01:17 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63482   Contest History/Highlights 2012 Deke Warner Florida State 2nd Light Heavyweight; Tim Garnder Extravaganza 1st Heavyweight and Overall; 2009: Europa Show of Champions Light Heavyweight and Overall; 2008: Deke Warner Florida Stage 1st Light Heavyweight; Debbie Kruk Classic 1st Light Heavyweight and Overall; 1999: Mid Florida Championships 1st Middleweight and Overall   SKATE TO WEIGHTS ”Growing up

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]]> Edith Waggoner https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/edith-waggoner/63488/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:01:09 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63488 Contest History/Highlights 2011: USA Championships 15th Figure Class C; 2010: Las Vegas Classic 1st Figure Class B and Overall; 2009: Excalibur 2nd Figure Class C; 2008: Western Regional 8th Figure Class B MUSCLE ON THE MIND “I was always fascinated with muscle, ever since I was about eight years old when my first crush was

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]]> Jeremy Buendia https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/jeremy-buendia/63495/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:00:59 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63495 Contest History/Highlights 2012: Sacramento Championships 1st Class B and Overall; Excalibur 1st Class B and Overall FATHER FITNESS “I began training consistently after my senior varsity football season. I dropped my football weight class (which was primarily sports specific/plyometric training) and took the extra period off to hit the weight room at the local gym.

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]]> Lisa LaBrie https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/lisa-labrie/63503/ Wed, 29 May 2013 23:00:48 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=63503 NPC Contest History 2013: Vermont State Championships Overall Winner 2004: 1st Lightweight CALL IT A COMEBACK I took about seven years off [from competing], I had an injury in the glutes – too many lunges and squats I guess! I couldn’t do any more training, but I’m totally not alive when I’m not lifting or training. I

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]]> Lauren Lessnau https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/lauren-lessnau/24339/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:32:11 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24339   Close your eyes and imagine a 21-year-old McDonald’s manager, and it’s likely you’ll come up with someone who looks entirely different from Lauren Lessnau. But Lessnau, who’s father was once a McDonald’s Regional Manager who now owns five of the fast-food chains in Colorado, isn’t really your typical 21-year old. When someone at her

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]]> Matt Pattinson https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/matt-pattinson/24330/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:30:00 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24330   As a high-level athlete, Matt Pattinson knows that having a goal helps keep you motivated. It’s what earned him all-conference honors in high school, a starting job as a linebacker for the UNLV Running Rebels, and a job on the Buffalo Bills roster after making the team as an undrafted free agent in 2008.

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]]> Ally Baker https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/ally-baker/24322/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:24:48 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24322   When Ally Baker returned to the after more than a year away, a lot had changed for the former figure competitor. Most notably, the division in which she was competing. “I was competing in bikini, and I really did enjoy it,” says Baker. At first glance, the results were great – Baker placed second

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]]> Jacklyn Abrams https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/jacklyn-abrams/24317/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:23:05 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24317   Jacklyn Abrams has always been a fast starter. How else do you explain a 16-year-old high school student cheerleading for a professional sports team? “My high school stunt coach told me I would do really well cheering for the Colorado Rapids [Major League Soccer team],” says Abrams. “I was like, ‘But I’m only 16’.

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]]> Amy Allen https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/amy-allen/24308/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:18:36 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24308   She didn’t move to Temecula, California to train with one of the best in the business. It just worked out that way for Amy Allen. But when the mother of two relocated to the west coast for professional reasons and found herself slowly slipping out of shape, a simple internet search brought her to

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]]> Lequida Sanders https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/lequida-sanders/24300/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:16:10 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24300   It likely seemed an odd thing to say at the time, with a then-12-year-old Lequida Sanders weighing in at 100 pounds dripping wet. But it was said anyway. “My grandma used to tell me I had muscles,” Sanders said. “So I said, ‘Ok, I have muscles, I’m gonna compete one day.’” That day didn’t

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]]> John Blatz https://old-site-2020.npcnewsonline.com/john-blatz/24294/ Mon, 01 Aug 2011 06:13:22 +0000 http://npcnewsonline.com/?p=24294   When John Blatz first stepped on a bodybuilding stage in 2009, one year removed from an elbow injury that signaled the end of his college football days, a career in bodybuilding was far from his end game. “I was just doing the show to see what it was like,” Blatz says. “I mean, you

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