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Thanks to the Collegiate Athletes for selecting
us for the 2011 USA Powerlifting Collegiate
Championships is scheduled for April 1st
– 3rd at the Hilton in downtown Scranton.
My history starts in High School Powerlifting
in Pennsylvania, but where things really
got started was when I established the Penn
State Powerlifting Team back in 1996. As
an athlete with that team, we were able to
start from nothing and actually able to compete
for team titles, placing second place as
a team in 1999. With just 12 lifters, we
had three of our athletes compete at the
IPF Junior Worlds. I later coached West Point
at the 2001 and 2002 Collegiate Nationals.
I have seen and been part of some great Collegiate
National events. I am still a LIFTER first,
I am able compete at the IPF level events
including the Arnold, so I bring the unique
meet director and lifter perspective to every
event I run.
We have put this event in the heart of Scranton,
Pennsylvania, which is known by mainstream
from the NBC show “The Office”. This small
city is located among three local Universities,
which give this small city a college town
feel. There are night clubs, coffee shops,
movie theatres and a mall all with-in a few
blocks of this venue. The cost of this venue
will be $99 a night, with an airport shuttle service that costs $5 per person. You will find
flying or driving is very easy into this
location.
We plan to run this event two platforms,
we plan to run projectors for the audience,
re-images of the computer scoring in the
back stage area and closed circuit tv on
both lifting platforms.
We are investigating putting this whole event
weekend on UStream, along with having the
results published to the event web site as
the event progresses.
We will be promoting this event to mainstream
media including ABC,
NBC and CBS affiliates.
We look forward to hosting one of the largest
Collegiate Nationals in the history of USA
Powerlifting.
Thanks, Steve Mann
Event Director
