McCabe finds immediate success in weight lifting
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By DAVID BOSSICK mailto:david.bossick@lee.net
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2:20 AM CST
It didn’t take Jill McCabe the third time to make it a charm.
She’s got a charmed life since the start.
McCabe won Minnesota Open Weightlifting Contest Jan. 5 in Northfield, Minn. — her first weight lifting competition where the power clean is her lift of choice.
She’s a senior at Chippewa Falls and the start into weight lifting was innocent enough.
“Back when I was a freshman, i wanted to get into shape. They had weight lifting classes. Mr. (Bob) Brodt showed me how. That was my first power clean.”
McCabe said she continued to get into weight lifting and gradually gravitated away from the sports she played before. And she saw how Brodt and Chi-Hi alum Lacy Bunkelman did with weight lifting.
“She’s huge weight lifter. I wanted to be able to power clean as much as her, but she’s huge,” McCabe said. “We trained over the summer.”
During the past couple of summers, McCabe began to train more in lifting, starting off with the bench press. But she found her niche with the power-clean and something called the snatch.
The power clean is where lifters pull a barbell off the ground to a stop, then the weight is lifted up over the lifter’s head.
The snatch goes straight from the ground to over the lifter’s head in one motion.
In the competition, McCabe was slotted with other school-aged girls, first by age and then by weight. The weight was given in kilograms. McCabe was in a weight class with two other girls.
“I got first. I didn’t think I was going to, but did,” she said.
She admitted to being nervous as she set out to compete for the first time. Her reward was a medal and a dollar coin.
“I was just happy to get first. I didn’t know what to expect,” she said.
McCabe finished with lifting 75 pounds in the power clean and 95 pounds in the snatch. Both standards are much less than what she’s capable of doing in practice.
“For the power clean, I usually can do 110 and 120,” she said.
McCabe said this is the time of year for the power clean competitions to take place and anticipates participating in more of them.
That’s while she remains a Chi-Hi Cardinals and when she goes to college at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
“I know there’s a club around there where there’s a facility,” she said.
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