JFIFC    $ &%# #"(-90(*6+"#2D26;=@@@&0FKE>J9?@=C  =)#)==================================================uK" }!1AQa"q2#BR$3br %&'()*456789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz w!1AQaq"2B #3Rbr $4%&'()*56789:CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz ?fF[sz6-cK3nNx RIll ;+Y4RZ_CVIT|bg>k+?G}q!j5U.#2OJ)-zsE۲#[Vu_ Gju <wǭ$^/'9b1c$Y 7NjŇ巷[xt95!BKT(HNTh>TaLՒ4H*3'_iq]Fo*hAޚe}7kwkMuxk>1ʑ I gYO 2Cȏ+ZMiN+ȆC4HLko[[y:4UOZHY 9Cҩ.洢ڙOou#*SIX'qZƚyt@%A W;w$Fdv#8Z_63,b ge!1Zt";shیs֞-|4QHOq /UP;K-Pe<br>of weightlifting. They didn't like being manhandled. During the off season we began to do plyometrics which helped our speed and quickness tremendously. Midfield had destroyed us 42-6 in the second round two years ago; last year we met them again in the third round and whipped them 40-20; it was a great victory.<br><br>We now have 12 athletes in the 1000-pound club with 18 benching 235 or better, 15 with a 300-pound squat or better, and 10 with a 400-pound or better dead lift. We have won four consecutive county weightlifting meets and placed second in the state weightlifting meet in 1998.<br><br>Coach John Holladay has brought a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and motivation to Hamilton High School, encouraging the BFS principles. The Staff Coach John Holladay, Blaine Hathcock, Scotty Peoples, Rodney Stidham, Warren Hall and Steven Deavours have all helped bring this program to a top notch level.<br><br>Our motto has become:<br> "The Road to the Championship <br>Goes Through the Weight Room.", they competed this year with a team of 41 an amazing 20 percent of the total high school enrollment.  I really didn t know what to expect at the first competition. As the coach, I just used the knowledge I had gained from BFS clinician Jim Brown and hoped for the best, said Mach.  The club qualified one lifter for the state meet that first year. However, that was only the seed. The best was yet to come. And come it did. <br>As the years have gone by, the club s numbers have grown not only