Over 23,000 lbs were lifted in just our smallest class, the JV Girls division...


Nearly 18,000 was the number of lines of code that went into the specially designed
webpage for this competition...


Over 3,800 lifts were performed throught the weekend....


575 was the number of hotel rooms occupied by lifters at the Rennaisance Hotel....


Over 420 lifters entered...


Over 230 was the number of hand crafted awards by co-meet director Steve Cissell...


90 was the number of squats that took less than 80 minutes during one of our fastest points
of the weekend. Dr. Mike Hartle had put us on the clock and said it would've been even faster
had we not stopped to repair the bar!


68 was the number of very tired staff members that went into making the meet a success....


24 the number of National meets the St. Louis Crew has ran (including the HS Nationals twice)....


23 was the largest number of lifters in one class, the Boys Varsity 165....


16 states were represented....


15 was the number of National refs on hand to cover all shifts and stations throughout
the weekend from Thursday until Sunday...


13 was the number of people Pat Rankin & Jim Davis brought on Sunday to help spot & load...


7 was the number of hours after the meet that it took to post results for each and every lifter....


5 different vendors were setup offering products for the lifters & crowd....


3 was the number of World Records set over an incredible weekend of lifting...


2 was the number of shoes this author wore out over the weekend...


1 very large meet that has come to a close for another year!