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FPC sophomore Nya Williams completes her personal-record 180-pound clean and jerk in a four-team meet on Dec. 4. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's Nya Williams gets a hug from assistant coach Kenny Rosa after breaking her own school record with a 180-pound clean and jerk in the 129-pound weight class. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Nya Williams jumps up and gives FPC coach Duane Hagstrom a big hug after successfully lifting 180 pounds in the clean and jerk, breaking her own school record for the 129-pound class. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's Lillian Ames attempts a 125-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Lilian Ames cleans 125 pounds. Ames completed the lift on her way to third-place finishes in both Olympic and traditional in the 139-pound class. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Lillian Ames clean and jerks 125 pounds. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Nya Williams confers with FPC head coach Duane Hagstrom after lifting 155 pounds on her first clean and jerk attempt. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Nya Williams attempts a 180-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Nya Williams cleans 180 pounds. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Matanzas' Jordyn Crews successfully clean and jerked 145 pounds on her third attempt. Crews won the 139-pound Olympic title and placed second in traditional. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Matanzas 154-pounder Sarah Sanchez attempts a 13-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Matanzas senior Ryann Parkinson attempts a 95-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Matanzas senior Ryann Parkinson, lifting in the 101-pound class, clean and jerked 95 pounds, which is 2.5 pounds more than her body weight. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC's Cali Weehunt placed first in Olympic and second in traditional in the 154-pound class. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Cali Weehunt attempts a 130-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Madeline Brinker cleans 120 pounds. Brinker won the 110-pound title in Olympic and placed second in traditional at the four-team meet. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Madeline Brinker clean and jerks 120 pounds on her second try on that weight. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC weightlifting coach Duane Hagstrom. Photo by Brent Woronoff
FPC weightlifting coach Duane Hagstrom. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Angelis Rosa attempts her first clean and jerk lift. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Angelis Rosa completes her first clean and jerk attempt. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Nya Williams cleans 165 pounds. She completed the lift and then topped it with a 180-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Nya Williams is all smiles after hoisting a personal record 180-pound clean and jerk. Photo by Brent Woronoff
Flagler Palm Coast sophomore lifter Nya Williams keeps breaking records.
At a girls quad weightlifting meet on Wednesday, Dec. 5, at FPC, Williams broke a personal record with a 180-pound clean and jerk. That surpassed her 119-pound weight class school record by five pounds. But in this meet, she was competing up in the 129-pound class.
When Williams completed the lift, cheers broke out throughout the school’s 100 gymnasium, Williams jumped into the arms of head coach Duane Hagstrom and then got hugs from her teammates and assistant coach Kenny Rosa.
“It felt pretty heavy, I can't lie,” she said of the lift. “I was impressed with myself.”
FPC finished second to Spruce Creek in both the Olympic (snatch and clean and jerk) and traditional (clean and jerk and bench press) competitions.
Coach Duane Hagstrom said the Bulldogs accomplished their goal for the meet by beating Flagler County rival Matanzas, which placed third in Olympic and fourth behind Taylor High in traditional.
Williams and Matanzas 101-pounder Ryann Parkinson each swept their weight classes with titles in both competitions. Williams won Olympic by 55 pounds and traditional by 80 pounds.
FPC’s Madeline Brinker (110) and Cali Weehunt (154) and Matanzas’ Jordyn Crews won titles in the Olympic competition. FPC’s Graciela Cruz won the 154-pound traditional title.
Williams’ 315-pound Olympic total was the second highest among all lifters. Only Spruce Creek’s Clair Callahan in the unlimited class — six weight classes above Williams’ 129 — lifted more with a 355 total. Williams also hoisted the third highest traditional total at the meet with 320 pounds.
Hagstrom said a 180-pound clean and jerk was the goal set for Williams to achieve by the end of the season. Typical for Williams during her young career, she is ahead of schedule.
“Once I hit 165 (on the second clean and jerk lift), I was already in the lead, and Coach was like, ‘What do you want to do (for the third lift)?’” Williams recounted. “I said, ‘Let’s have some fun.’ So we went to 180 for a new PR, and I hit it.”
“That was pretty exciting,” Hagstrom said. “And now we just need to solidify it and keep hitting it. I told her we're not doing anything over 180 until it's the state championship. So if she has to do 180 10 more times in competitions between now and then, that's all we're going to do. I just need to get her more comfortable with that weight because there was a little bit of a struggle. She's got more in her. She's got to fine tune some little things.”
Williams owns four of the five school records in the 119-pound class. The only one that has eluded her so far is the bench press record of 150 pounds.
She could have attempted 150 on her third bench press in the four-team meet, but she decided to save that for the Power of Christmas Invitational on Dec. 14 at Suwanee High.
I told her we're not doing anything over 180 until it's the state championship. So if she has to do 180 10 more times in competitions between now and then, that's all we're going to do.
— DUANE HAGSTROM, FPC weightlifting coach
“I hit my second attempt (of 140), and I didn’t need to go any higher,” she said. “I was already winning, so I just scratched my last attempt. There was no reason to do it. We were going to keep it easy for today.”
Brinker also had a big clean and jerk lift for the Bulldogs. Normally, a 101-pounder, Brinker was competing up at 110 pounds. Her 120-pound clean and jerk along with her 100-pound snatch allowed her to win the Olympic competition by 15 pounds.
“One hundred and twenty was a huge milestone for her,” Hagstrom said. “All the girls did an amazing job. We’re really young, and the young girls are really starting to get in their groove and starting to get some confidence. The future is kind of exciting about what it's going to be like in the next couple years.”
