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2009 Body Language Natural Physique Association (BLNPA) New England Natural Bodybuilding, Figure and Fitness Championship Competition Results

Preliminary Placings. Final Placings pending Drug Testing Results

April 11, 2009

Seekonk High School
Seekonk, MA
Promoter: Kevin Topka

Pro Champion: Nathan Singletery
Men’s Open Overall Champion: Peter Lourenco
Women’s Open Champion: Lori Colasanto
Bikini Open Overall Champion:  Lori-Ann Marchese
Figure Open Overall Champion: Kelly Palumbo
Men’s Novice Overall Champion: Michael Chennisi

MEN PRO DIVISION
1.   Nathan Singletery
2.   Robert Marzilli
3.   Thomas Sharp

MEN’S TEENS
1.   Anthony Venterosa
2.   Benjamin Corjay
3.   Kristofer Buhagiar
4.   Gerald Tennenbaum
5.   Steven Specht

JUNIORS
1.    Thomas Klyana
2.    Sean Achorn
3.    Joseph Stioco
4.    Chris Brown
5.    Benjamin Corjay
6.    Brendan Baptiste
7.    Josh Teiveira
8.    Jon-Ross Gaudet
9.    Patrick Hogan
10.  Jonathan Manchester
11.  Anthony Tedesco
12.  Christopher Simmons

NOVICE FIGURE
1.    Alissa Savigano
2.    Cherylann Relihan
3.    Denise Agviar
4.    Melanie Britto
5.    Cameron Huestis
6.    Jodi Tracey
7.    Joyce Araujo
8.    Patrizia Prew
9.    Jennifer Ptaszenski
10.  Mickalina Kobylanski
11.  Sally-Ann Segars

MEN NOVICE LIGHTWEIGHT
1.    Michael Chennisi
2.    Anthony Venterosa
3.    Jonathan Sorrentino
4.    Ronald LoBianco
5.    Steven Hansen
6.    John Troiano
7.    Walter Mederios
8.    Kristofer Buhagiar
9.    Cory Young
10.  Ray Martineau
11.  Jeremy Leal
12.  Brent Caves
13.  Scott Robbins
14.  Anthony Tedesco
15.  Joseph Turmel
16.  Christopher Simmons
17.  Rene Delvalle
18.  Patrick Hogan

NOVICE BIKINI
1.    Lori-Ann Marchese
2.    Patrizia Prew

MEN NOVICE HEAVYWEIGHT
1.    Aaron Silva
2.    Marklous Ricci
3.    Steven Edmond
4.    Thomas Klyana
5.    Timothy Perry
6.    Charles Gaudet
7.    Randy Robitaille
8.    Jeff Gray
9.    Josh Teiviera
10.  Jon-Ross Gaudet
11.  Bem Prince
12.  Paul Hogan

MEN GRANDMASTER (50 +)
1.   Fred Petrarca
2.   Charles Gaudet

MASTER FIGURE (35 +)
1.   Cherylann Relihan
2.   Denise Aguiar
3.   Jennifer Silva
4.   Cameron Huestis
5.   Heidi Jones
6.   Jodi Tracey
7.   Terye Grady
8.   Sally-Ann Segars
9.   Denise Onarato

MEN MASTER (40 +)
1.   Michael Chennisi
2.   Charles Gaudet
3.   Jeff Gray
4.   Kelvin Moore

MEN OPEN LIGHTWEIGHT
1.    Ronald LoBianco
2.    Michael Chennisi
3.    Joshua Deschamps
4.    Autuan Marria
5.    Ray Martineau
6.    Jonathan Manchester
7.    Joseph Turmel
8.    Brent Chaves
9.    Christopher Simmons
10.  Gerald Tennenbaum

OPEN BIKINI SHORT
1.   Lori-Ann Marchese
2.   Kendra Cucino
3.   Jennifer Ptaszenski
4.   Joyce Araujo

OPEN BIKINI TALL
1.   Alissa Savigano
2.   Jennifer Silva
3.   Melanie Britto
4.   Angela Noury
5.   Patrizia Prew

MEN OPEN MIDDLEWEIGHT
1.    Tom Ferriera
2.    Steve Braga
3.    Jonathan Sorrentino
4.    Alex Stewart
5.    Steven Hansen
6.    Ron Giorgione
7.    Nick Mauricio
8.    Kristofer Buhagiar
9.    John Troiano
10.  Joseph Stocio
11.  Cory Young
12.  Scott Robbins
13.  Jeremy Leal
14.  Rene Delvalle
15.  Anthony Tedesco
16.  Patrick Hogan

OPEN FIGURE SHORT
1.   Kelly Palumbo
2.   Cherylann Relihan
3.   Kelly St. Jean
4.   Nikki Supranovicz
5.   Joyce Araujo
6.   Jodi Tracey
7.   Jennifer Ptaszenski

OPEN FIGURE TALL
1.   Alissa Savigano
2.   Jennifer Silva
3.   Melanie Britto
4.   Denise Aguiar
5.   Heidi Jones
6.   Mickalina Kobylanski
7.   Terye Grady
8.   Denise Onarato

MEN OPEN LIGHT-HEAVYWEIGHT
1.    Peter Lourenco
2.    Marklous Ricci
3.    Aaron Silva
4.    Walter Gaudet
5.    Steve Edmond
6.    Charles Gaudet
7.    Timothy Perry
8.    Junior Lormil
9.    Randy Robitaille
10.  Josh Teixeira
11.  Jon-Ross Gaudet
12.  Bem Prince

WOMEN OPEN BODYBUILDING
1.   Lori Colasanto
2.   Jacqueline DeMello
3.   Rae-Ann Lour

MEN OPEN HEAVYWEIGHT
1.   Thomas Klvana
2.   Chris Brown
3.   Paul Hogan

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Jennifer Morakis makes her professional debut June 6 at the Northeast Classic in Boston.

POLAND — Jennifer Morakis of Poland has achieved one of her life goals and is hoping that achievement will lead to another.

“My goal was to get to the pro level,” said Morakis, who did just that by winning the overall open division figure championship at the Northern States Super Natural Bodybuilding & Figure Contest. She received her World Natural Bodybuilding Federation professional figure card on March 21 at West Merkel Academy in Buffalo N.Y.

“This was my biggest win,” she said.

Now the Boardman High (1996) and Youngstown State (2001) graduate, who has been an amateur bodybuilder for five years and an amateur figure-contestant for the last 2, will prepare for her first professional competition.

“There will be more competitiveness in the pro level but the rewards are greater,” said Morakis, trained by her husband, Chris Morakis, also a Boardman High graduate and a personal trainer who operates Morakis Massotherapy in Boardman.

Jennifer will debut in her professional career June 6 at the Northeast Classic in Boston, also conducted by the WNBF.

“The amateurs may get trophies or [gift] samples from companies but in the pro level there are cash prizes and signing contracts with vitamin companies and free photo shoots and modeling opportunities. It opens up a lot of professional and business opportunities,” said Morakis.

“With the pro card , it will make it a lot tougher for me. I compare it to basketball and playing in high school as compared to the NBA.”

Morakis, who majored in accounting at YSU and is employed as a commercial analyst for Huntington Bank in downtown Youngstown, believes that her conditioning and experience helped her to win her first overall figure division title.

She had a previous win in the tall figure class at the Tri-State Classic in May of 2008.

“This is my fifth show in the last 13 months. I have experience. I am very comfortable on stage,” said Morakis.

“I have the beauty that is able to catch the eye of the judges, and I am in good condition [whereas] some of the other girls may not be and maybe have trained for only three months and want to see how they do and want to try out.”

She explained what she had to do as a contestant on stage in the open figure division contest.

“You have to wear a two-piece bathing suit that costs $350 and clear high heels that are very high, and you pose and walk,” said Morakis, noting contestants walk on a T-shaped stage, similar to the kind that fashion models use.

She said the contestants are judged by their conditioning [shape and muscularity], poise and symmetry.

“[Judges] are able to tell if you are in condition,” she said. “In the figure event, they look for all symmetry, muscle and beauty.”

Morakis said contestants first were divided into three groups based on their heights to produce three group winners and finalists.

“In this contest, there were 30 girls — 10 in short, 10 in medium and 10 in tall. Then those three compete and one will get the pro card.”

She said the judges all are experienced in figure bodybuiding and “are licensed by the WNBF and all have competed and received honors.”

Besides Morakis, several other area women also participated in the Buffalo contest, including Brandi Shoemaker of YSU and Keli Siciliano of Liberty.

Shoemaker had a pair of runner-up finishes in the figure division and the Ms. Fit Body Division, while Siciliano was second in Bikini Round and fourth in figure.

The area also supplied three judges, including Karen Miller, a native of East Liverpool and now of Youngstown who served as head judge, but was not part of the seven-person judging group.

Miller is a triple title holder in the WNBF, including as Ms. Universe and Ms. International, and also is a personal trainer. She also is the founder of the Cardinal Classic Bodybuilding & Figure Contest held in the area annually.

This year’s Cardinal Classic will be held in September at Struthers Middle School.

Serving in the seven-person judging group were Stephanie Foley of Youngstown, the promoter of the Cardinal Classic, and Eunice Duff of Poland, a local figure competitor.

Source  - http://www.vindy.com

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After eight years of working, toning, diet and amateur competitions, bodybuilder, Victor Oliver is set to embark on his career with his first ever professional competition in Nashville, TN this June.

Oliver is one of a new breed of bodybuilders, dedicated to natural bodybuilding without any steroid use of any kind. “I belong to two different bodybuilding organizations that ensure all the body builders remain drug free – the Unites States Bodybuilding Federation and National Gym Association,” said Oliver. “We are drug tested, take polygraphs and provide urinalysis so that they can keep the drugs out of our sport.”

Looking at Oliver’s physique, it is hard to understand why anyone would need steroids to achieve success. The bodybuilder has been working on natural techniques since 2001 when he decided to give up boxing and running and take up the more personal sport of bodybuilding.

“It is not easy to make the transition from eating regularly to the regimen required to be successful at natural bodybuilding,” said Oliver. The toned man stated that when he first started adjusting his diet from junk food to all natural, watching his protein, carbohydrate, and fat intake, eschewing salt and other sodium-based spices, he had severe cravings, but has trained himself to ignore those in favor of what is required by his sport.

“I still go into a grocery store and walk past the chocolate, touch the packages and then have to pull myself away,” said the smiling bodybuilder.

Whatever sacrifice he has had to make these past eight years seem to be paying off for the 43-year-old man. Oliver qualified this past year to compete in his first ever professional competition. When asked how he had managed to do so, Oliver told TBN that he had to win two pro qualifier competitions. “You don’t just have to win your weight class, you have to win the whole competition,” said Oliver.

He explained that the competitions are fierce. “We get out bodies judged in a preliminary round and then get a minute on stage to perform our own routines. Then if we win our weight class, we are put into competition with all the other bodybuilders from each class to be judged. Only when we win that final round have we qualified.”

Because being a professional is so expensive, some of Oliver’s supporters have decided to throw a fundraiser on April 25. “The travel and hotel, costumes, choreography and training, including the special diet is so expensive, someone new to the sport such as me needs help,” said Oliver.

For that reason his sponsors such as the Tiki Bar, Maximum Gym where he is a personal trainer, Catamarans, Giovanni’s Dock of the Bay, Cici’s Pizza, Golden Chicken, Applebee’s and more are sponsoring a fundraiser for Oliver at Jake & Al’s Chop house.

“There will be a silent auction, raffles, happy hour pricing and more from 6 p.m. until they close,” said Oliver.

The fundraiser at Jake & Al’s is open to anyone wishing to attend. For more information contact Maximum Fitness at (301) 737-6155 or Jake & Al’s Chop House at (410) 394-6694.

Source - www.thebaynet.com

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The inaugural 2009 INBF Central USA Natural Bodybuilding & Figure Challenge in Sheboygan, hosted by local professional and world champion Brenda Rahe, appeared to be a success.

Rahe, a two-time WNBF world champion and three-time WNBF Ms. International champ, said just under 300 spectators attended the event April 4 at Sheboygan North High School. The event drew athletes from as far away as Arizona as well as from around the Midwest and Wisconsin.

A list of winners can be found at the end of this story.

A total of 19 athletes took part in the competition.

All participants had to undergo strict drug testing via polygraph and/or urinalysis to prove they are free of any kind of strength or growth-inducing drugs, according to the International Natural Bodybuilding & Fitness federation.

Rahe hopes to make the show an annual one in Sheboygan.

The following local businesses sponsored the event: ABSolute Definition; Natures Best Inc.; Aldag Honold Mechanical Inc.; Sheboygan Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, GMC Cadillac Inc.; Versa Gripps; Distinctive Images; Lakeside Pepsi Bottling Co.; YMCA; Pick ‘N Save; Bray Associates Architects, Inc.; Good For You Vending; Great Lakes Blue Printers Inc.; and MC Sports.

More results and photos can be found at www.inbf.net under the competition results tab, as well as at www.brendarahe.com under the 2009 INBF Central USA tab.

MEN’S NOVICE BODYBUILDING: 1. Jeremy Gunderson, Kenosha; 2. Norman Angotti, Union Grove; 3. Kevin Kuhn, Sheboygan.

MEN’S MASTERS BODYBUILDING (OVER 40): 1. Octavio Bravo, Mesa, Az.; 2. Todd Hanson, Franklin

WOMEN’S MASTERS BODYBUILDING (OVER 40): 1. Shelly Nelson, New Berlin

WOMEN’S OPEN LIGHTWEIGHT BODYBUILDING (UNDER 118 LBS): 1. Angela Johnston, Hortonville

WOMEN’S OPEN HEAVYWEIGHT BODYBUILDING (118 LBS & OVER): 1. Shelly Nelson, New Berlin

OVERALL WOMEN’S BODYBUILDING CHAMPION: Johnston

WOMEN’S BODYBUILDING BEST POSER AWARD: JohnstonWOMEN’S MASTERS FIGURE (OVER 35): 1. Helena Chansky, Grayslake, Ill.; 2. Rhonda Holland, Kohler

WOMEN’S OPEN FIGURE SHORT CLASS: 1. Chansky; 2. Jennifer Maris, Chicago

WOMEN’S OPEN FIGURE TALL CLASS: 1. Julia Wold, Oregon; 2. Elizabeth Gengembre, Elm Grove; 3. Rhonda Holland, Kohler

OVERALL FIGURE CHAMPION: Chansky

Men’s Open Lightweight Bodybuilding (under 165 lbs): 1. Sam Masino, Madison; 2. Justin Sikorski, Oak Creek; 3. Kevin Monroe, Spring Green; 4. Todd Hanson, Franklin

MEN’S OPEN MIDDLEWEIGHT (165.25 LBS TO 176 LBS): 1. Octavio Bravo, Mesa, Az.

MEN’S OPEN HEAVYWEIGHT (190.25 LBS +): 1. Ted Eiler, Greenfield; 2. Kraig Baxter, Skanee, Mich.

MEN’S BODYBUILDING OVERALL CHAMPION: Masino

MEN’S BODYBUILDING BEST POSER AWARD: Sikorski

MS. FIT BODY TALL CLASS: 1. Julia Wold, Oregon; 2. Elizabeth Gengembre, Elm Grove; 3. Rhonda Holland, Kohler; 4. Lisa Hansen, Manitowoc

MS. FIT BODY OVERALL CHAMPION: Wold

Source - http://www.sheboyganpress.com

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Glenn Herring, a 44 year old resident of LaSalle and owner of Gym-Zone Fitness Center, won the heavyweight and the Master’s titles. After winning his first competition, the Mr. Jr. Montréal, 25 years ago, and numerous other competitions in both bodybuilding and power-lifting, Glenn Herring decided to set a good for the Mr. Canada competition.
This event was drug tested by W.A.D.A. (World Anti Doping Association), the same strict testing standards as in the Olympics.

Glenn Herring trained twice a day, six days a week while being on a strict high protein low fat diet. «I don’t smoke or do drugs, I eat well, sleep enough and exercise to be healthy and in shape. Being a gym owner, I lead by example.»

For 17 years, Glenn Herring has been the owner of Gym Zone Fitness Center located on Newman Boulevard in LaSalle. He will now defend his title and maybe on day compete in the Mr. Universe National Championships. Glenn would like to thank the staff and all the members at Gym Zone for their support and also for being part at a winning organization.

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MANSFIELD — John Allen, an amputee bodybuilder from Mansfield, was fourth in the 50-and-older division of the Dave Liberman National Physique Committee Natural Ohio Bodybuilder Championships at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium on Saturday.

Allen, who turns 59 on April 13, was the only physically challenged competitor in his division and received a standing ovation from the crowd. Former Mr. Olympia, Jay Cutler, was guest poser at the show.

Diabetes robbed Allen of his gall bladder, spleen, 90 percent of his pancreas, half of his stomach and colon and, in 2003, his left leg below the knee.

In his three years as a bodybuilder, Allen has won numerous trophies. Last year, he took two firsts at the USA Great Lakes Bodybuilding and Fitness Championships in Colum- bus, winning the physically challenged division and the Grand Masters class.

In 2007, Allen made Team USA by earning second place in the physically-challenged division of the International Natural Bodybuilding Association nationals in Los Angeles.

Allen trains at both Fit 1 and the Mansfield Area Y.

Source  - mansfieldnewsjournal.com