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Brooks gets state lift title

RHS Hill second

By Randy Lefko Sports Editor
Posted 2/19/20

PANAMA CITY BEACH – Clay High senior weightlifter Lindsay Brooks came home with a gold medal after winning the Class 1A title at 199 pounds and leading the Lady Blue Devils to a fourth place …

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Brooks gets state lift title

RHS Hill second


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PANAMA CITY BEACH – Clay High senior weightlifter Lindsay Brooks came home with a gold medal after winning the Class 1A title at 199 pounds and leading the Lady Blue Devils to a fourth place team finish at Friday’s state championship meet at Arnold High School in Panama City Beach.
Brooks, a district and region champion with dominant lift totals in the two lift disciplines; bench press and clean and jerk, bested the field at state by five pounds with her 365 pound total. Brooks had a 185 bench press and a 180 clean and jerk with Leesburg’s Alissa Alston’s dominant clean and jerk total of 195 not enough to overcome the 20 pound gap Brooks got in the bench press, 185-165. Brooks, third last year at 199 with a 350 total, had the best bench press of the weight class. Alson was seventh last year for Tavares High School.
Also in 199, Ridgeview’s Kylie Zitkus took fifth with a 325 total.
For Ridgeview High, senior 129 pound lifter Aysia Hill, also the district and region champion, got her silver medal behind a strong performance for gold by Arnold’s Emily Bennett, the defending state champion, 385-325. Bennett had the best bench and clean and jerk totals for the weight class; 200 and 185, to repeat her state title. Hill lifted 175 and 150.
At unlimited, won by Union County superlifter Mahailya Reeves with an astonishing 600 pound total, Clay’s Kailah McKean, 13th last year at 355, took fourth with a much-improved 445 total with Ridgeview finishing with two lifters; Kayla Brown at 350 and Sydney Porter at 345.
In the same 129 weight class, Clay High’s Nadyia Jones totaled 295 for sixth place.
In the team scoring, Arnold won with 26 points with Leesburg second at 20. Zephyrhills scored 18 for third with Clay fourth at 15. Ridgeview got seven points.
At 110, Clay High’s Samantha Migliore battled again with familiar foes in Belleview’s Hannah Collett and Suwannee’ Mattilyn Marsee, both region champions, to take third with a 260 total. Marsee won at 290 with Collett second at 270. Collett was third last year at 110 while Marsee was fourth at 119. Migliore advanced to state but did not score a lift total last year.
At 119, with 370 winning and 275 earning sixth place, Ridgeview’s Vishwa Patel finished with a 265 total with teammate Emma Bonifacio totaling 245.
At 139, won with a 365 total, Clay High’s Janiyah Stevens, a freshman, totaled 260. At 154, won with a 395 total by Arnold’s Amerie Daniels, Clay had Nayeli Trejo tied with three lifters at 305.
In Class 2A, Oakleaf had two lifters; Gabby Willits at 199 who finished with a 360 total behind sixth place at 365 and a winning total of 415, and Tamira Briley at 119 who hit 295 with 350 winning and 305 placing sixth.
Middleburg High’s Atlantis Clinkscale, also at 119, totaled 265. Kaitlyn Griffin, at 199, totaled 335.