weightlifting

Rec Briefs: Glenn Murphy Jr. adds another Pan American gold medal to weightlifting resume

A listing of camps and clinics for recreational sports in and around Carroll County

After a seven-year break, Francis Scott Key is resuming its Athletic Hall of Fame with the Class of 2019.

Fifty-five-pound Kensie Maizels shattered three Maryland powerlifting records in May, and is on track to become the greatest lifter in her internationally known family of eight.

Leo Totten spent an extensive amount of time in the Carroll County School system and following his retirement, he's continued his career as a weightlifting coach and instructor.

Costolo trains at Athens Gym in Eldersburg. Last July she competed in a sanctioned USA Powerlifting meet in Rosedale, where she squatted 176 pounds, benched 82 pounds, and deadlifted 242 pounds for a total of 500.

Glen Acha arrived late — Crocs in tow — to the Carroll County Power Lifting Meet at High School Westminster on Saturday.

On May 6, Team Bixler had another successful performance in an RPS sanctioned weightlifting meet. Karen Eames, in her powerlifting debut, squatted 250 pounds,

Two women from Baltimore Area Strength Athletes Gym in Rosedale recently qualified to compete at the 2017 Weightlifting National Championships in Chicago in May. They're also among thousands of women who've flocked to the sport in the last decade and contributed to its exponential growth.

Dr. Lawrence Edwin Atkinson, a longtime horse and hound veterinarian from Monkton who dismissed old age and began competitive weightlifting at 75, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke at a small assisted-living facility in Harford County.

Athletes from Carroll schools came together to participate in a powerlifting meet to reach personal records and offer support for other contenders.

Emily Socolinsky, 40, of Canton, is helping to run the 2015 Charlotte Bohn Charm City Strongwoman Memorial Contest, where ladies will flex their muscles to benefit colon cancer research. The competition among women ranging in age from their 20s to 50s will be held Sept. 13 on Eden Street, between Aliceanna and Fleet, in Harbor East.

On Saturday Jordan Reeve was one of dozens of competitors who tested their strength by pulling a Range Rover 50 feet across a covered pathway at Westminster High School.

Former governor was treated at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore

The expansion Baltimore Anthem of the National Pro Grid League, signed world champion and Olympic silver medalist weightlifter Dmitry Klokov and CrossFit star Mat Fraser.