$ = Best Lifter
* = Texas Record
! = American Record
^ = World Record

I would like to thank Brian Kline, Mark, Ann and Amanda Harris, Shannon McDougald, Buddy Rhoades, Josh Devereaux, Jack and El Ruth McCullough, Caleb Rowton, and Jim Royce for their hard work to make this meet happen.  Also a special thanks to Coach Charles Brown of the Aldine School District for his special support of middle school powerlifting.  Also a big thanks to Houston ISD and Revere Middle School for their support of our sport.  Last but not least, thank to Officer Joe Rodriguez of the HISD Police for helping us with security.  The is the 2nd official year that the APA and Texas Middle School Powerlifting Association have worked together in promoting powerlifting the kids.  This year we also added adult divisions to our meets.  As you can see the results were great.  Lots of very good lifting by both the kids and the adults.  This year we added two divisions to the teens meets, the 97 and 105  pound weight groups.  Lawson and Paris from Stovall Middle School were the first lifters to put their mark in Texas records.  Both also qualified for APA American records and WPA World records.  Williams from Stovall Middle School walked out with 3 Texas records and 2 American and World records.  Williams also left the meet as Best Lifter in the teen meet with his 785 total at 144 lbs.  In the 148's Dillsworth walked off with 2 new Texas records.  Patino in the 181's, got a Texas record in the deadlift.  From ElPaso, Texas, Christian Moore got 3 Texas records and also earned the title of Best Lifter in the adult meet with his total of 1490 at 181.  Masters lifter Charles Gray from Oklahoma ended his day with 4 Texas records and a 1205 total. 198 pound 8th grader Ayes received 2 Texas records, while 60 year old Price Whitley got 4 Texas records with his 1240 total.  Houston lifter Tiny Meeker came to lift even though he had an injury.  Tiny set out to destroy the WPA 275 bench record of 700 with a 705 attempt.  Tiny opened and nailed a big 650 on his 1st attempt.  On his 2nd he attempted 705 and got out of the groove.  The 3rd attempt at 705 hooked up fine but his foot slipped causing him to just miss locking it out.  Tiny ended the day with a drug free Texas, American, and World record with his opener of 650 in the 275's.  Big Pete Lattanzi of Houston also had a bit day in the SHW masters with his 460 bench and a Texas record.  In the women's divisions Chris Garry had a great day in the 97's with 4 Texas records.  Saba Wilson of ElPaso Texas walked away with 5 Texas records in the submasters and open 132's.  8th grader Morrant took 3 Texas records home in the teen 132's and also got Best Lifter in the teen meet.  Loni Powell had a big day taking 2 Texas records in both the women's 148 masters and open divisions.  At the end of the day 43 Texas records , 11 American records, and 11 World records were set or broken by some of the best lifters in Texas.  Thanks again to all who helped this meet be the success it was and also a special thanks to Rickey Crain of Crains Muscle World and John Inzer of Inzer Advance Designs.