1993 Jr Nationals - reuploaded 5/14/2012

[phy911]

This post was inspired by this:

As usual I'm going to rant about the past so if you just want the video scroll to the second post.

I've changed the names and locations but the pictures and story are real. 

I moved a lot growing up. I started out in Chicago then Maryland. While in junior high I became an avid lacrosse player. I initially played against teams within the county then I tried out for the county team called Cobra. Playing Cobra lacrosse was virtually a ticket to high school varsity lacrosse. My dream was to get a scholarship to Johns Hopkins 

Although fate had other plans for me. A month before my freshman year my family moved to Indianapolis. It was more conservative than Maryland and took a bit of adjustment to get used to. There was no lacrosse there so I tried playing soccer as a substitute but my thirst for contact limited me to slide tackles.

Just as I felt like I was starting to fit in my family moved again. This time to Tucson, Arizona. The school I ended up in was quite a change for me. It was run down with low academic standards. It was my sophomore year. I decided to try wrestling to make some friends and compete in a sport. The practice room was attached to the school's weight room. When I saw the weight room for the first time I was in shock. It was enormous with mirrored walls just like you would find in commercial gym and above the mirrors were acrylic paintings of male and female bodybuilders. I realized at that moment the school's money went to sports.

I was curious about what the girls in school thought about the weight room but unfortunately the only time I spent there was passing through it to get to wrestling practice. I was good at wrestling but I didn't meet any friends. When I won I didn't enjoy it and when I lost it totally sucked so I decided wrestling wasn't for me.

Over time I made friends at the school and started participating in drama. I passed by the theater every day of school. Towards the end of the school year by the theater marque I saw the most shocking poster of my life.

It was a poster for the Mr./Ms. Coronado high school bodybuilding contest. I could not believe it. Female bodybuilding was like sacred porn to me! I religiously recorded everything with female bodybuilders from contests on ESPN to Maury Povich.

I counted down the days to the contest. The prejudging was held on a Thursday and the show was Friday. It was the last two weeks of school and the seniors had already finished. I went to the prejudging and the theater was almost empty. I was afraid to sit too close and be labelled as some kind of pervert yet I still wanted a good view so I sat in the middle of the theater.

The lights dimmed and the judges called for the female competitors. My palms were sweaty and my throat was dry. The theater was almost silent. I stared unblinking. Then the girls appeared. Their footsteps on the wooden stage thundered through the theater like their bodies were heavy with dense muscle. Instantly I was in lust.

I didn't bring a camera to prejudging but below are pictures from the contest from 91 and 92 taken with a 35mm back in the good old days of film. Yes the quality sucks but given the that they were taken 20 years ago give me a little slack. The competitions were sold out both times and since then I've never been to a contest where the audience cheered as loudly.

1991



1992


I remember the day after prejudging walking through the halls of my school and seeing one of the girls from the prejudging the day before. She was surrounded by boys and posing. The guys were feeling her muscles and she was glowing from the attention. I was so jealous of them.


After watching the contest for a second year in a row I decided I needed to compete. I had rationalized it would be the best way to meet a girl that was into bodybuilding. So the summer after my junior year I started serious weight training. I was taking Hot Stuff, Cybergenics, and just about every other supplement gimmick out ther but I saw no results. My training partner at the time was on Dianabol and with just one little pill he packed on the muscle. This influenced me to order the "Underground Steroid Handbook" by Dan Duchaine. Then I began to learn more of the dark side of bodybuilding.

It was the beginning of my senior year. I was sit in the hallway outside of class cramming for a history test. I heard footsteps coming towards me and took a quick peak from my book to see who it was. It was Kirsten a girl from my class. She was a jock that played just about every sport. She was rather natural not unattractive but she didn't wear make-up. The style of the time was grunge so clothes were baggy and girls bodies were typically obscured. Although, today Kirsten was wearing cut off shorts. I had never seen her legs before and what I saw surprised me. When she walked as her foot touched the ground her big thigh would jolt to attention bulging with muscle. Her quadriceps pulsed with each step as she came closer to me. I realized I had been staring at her legs too long and turned back to my book. Kirsten stopped right in front of me and asked me if I was studying for the test. It was obvious I was studying for the test but Kirsten wanted to test me. As I looked up from my book Kirsten stood with both thighs flexed. She easily had the most muscular quads I had ever seen on a girl in school. I told her I liked her shorts. It was a pathetic excuse to look back at her legs. She twisted back and forth as if she was modelling her shorts but the whole time she kept her quads flexed. She said she would see me in class and walked down the hall. A better description would be flexed down the hall because I swear she purposely walked on toes to show off her calves.

After the history test we had to sit quietly as we waited for everyone to finish. I had thought about my experience with Jennifer weeks before and how if I saw her again I would ask her to do the mixed pairs competition with me. But now after seeing Kirsten's legs Jennifer was like a distant memory. I mustered up the courage to ask Kirsten if she would be my partner in the mixed pairs for the Mr./Ms. Coronado high school bodybuilding competition. Without hesitation she said yes. In fact she was very excited. She asked me to come over to her house after school. My imagination was running wild. When I got to her house her mother was home. I was a bit shocked as I was introduced as the guy she was going to do the bodybuilding competition with. She had obviously told her mother about competing. What was even more surprising was that her mother seemed totally keen on the idea. I discovered that Kirsten's mom taught physical education at a junior high. I figured that type of job might make you more open to the idea of your daughter competing in bodybuilding. Kirsten's mom asked me what sports I had done in school. I told her about my lacrosse history and that I had done some wrestling. She said she had been teaching wrestling in her physical education classes and that she had taught Kirsten to wrestle too.

She then suggested I wrestle Kirsten.

Looking back on this as an adult makes me wonder what motivated Kirsten's mother to encourage this but at the time I thought nothing of it. I took the defensive position on the floor and Kirsten was on top of me and the freestyle wrestling offensive position. Her mother said go. I was fast and quickly rolled Kirsten over on her back. She was surprised by my speed. She smiled and said "Wow" impressed with my skill but what was weird was her mother was glaring at her with an angry expression. It was like she was pissed that Kirsten didn't win. It made me uncomfortable enough to want to leave.

I went home leaving the awkward situation behind comfortable in the idea that soon Kirsten would be flexing her muscles practicing for the competition with me. It made me think of a more pressing issue....How was I going to keep from getting a hardon with her flexing in a bikini!

That very night as I arrived at home my dreams were shattered. My family was moving back to Maryland.

I stopped lifting weights as I had no reason to continue without the competition in my future. Back in Maryland I tried playing lacrosse again but after 4 years of not playing my skills were tarnished. My only saving grace was that year the Jr. Nationals were held in Baltimore so I got to see my first national show.

I'm in my mid 30's now and I'm still haunted by the fantasies of my past. Kirsten was so excited to compete in the school's bodybuilding contest. She drank alcohol and had experimented with marijuana which meant she might have been more open to trying a performance enhancing drug. Mexican Farmacia's were not far from us and roids were over the counter. 

I still cannot keep from wondering what might of happened if I never left......

[phy911]

1993 Jr. Nationals including Sharon Marvel Guest Posing.

Overall Winner Gina Marie Hall

HeavyWeight
1     D'Lynne Miller
2     Teresa Anderson
3     Evette Feigel
4     Roxanne Rhault
5     Stacy Ross
6     Robin Bennett
7     Terrie Bransford
8     Judy Batcher
9     Traci McLeod
10     Chris Bongiovanni
11     Debbie Laster
12     Beth Ann Scoboda
13     Betty Pariso
14     Dawn Whitman
15     Renette Dallas

MiddleWeight
1     Gina Marie Hall
2     Cindy Michael
3     Denise Locklear
4     Amy Jo DiMeglio
5     Kristie Kelly
6     Bennie Hammer
7     Erin Ambrosino
8     Elner Scott
9     Carol Apperson
10     Alice Rodriguez

LightWeight
1     Angie Kirk
2     Mary Ellen Doss
3     Pam Kusar
4     Jackie Ludy
5     Tracy Brown
6     Lisa Boscarino
7     Linda Pimental
8     Jeannie Donahue
9     Denise Gerard
10     Donna Kaylor
11     Deborah Barnes
12     Andrea Haney
13     Darlene Kendrot
14     Caroline Krakower
15     Rose Aiello






Dead link removed. Members are invited to upload this contest again, The Street Fighters post is retained

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