BIOGRAPHY

At the age of fourteen I watched my mother compete in her 1st bodybuilding show. I saw all the hard work and dedication that it took for her to compete and it inspired me. I decided to compete in the same show the following year. Having only weight trained and dieting for 3 months, I entered the ANBC Whaling City Bodybuilding Championships. I won best poser and the women's overall. I stopped competing after my first show because life had different plans for me. Within the next eight years, I had three children, work, college, and the purchase of my family's first home. During this time however I never stopped weight training. It wasn't until last year, while attending Bridgewater State College, which I was given that extra push that I needed to start competing again.

My professor and mentor Dr. Ellen Robinson had given me the confidence and encouragement I needed to compete again. I kept telling her that I wasn't ready yet and that maybe I would compete next year, but she kept insisting that I was ready now. The show was only one month away and I just had my third child eight months before. I told her "I will put on a bathing suit and let you look me over and if you think I can be ready in time then I will do it."

I met with Dr. Robinson and Mike Hludzik, a competitive bodybuilder, and they looked at my current conditioning and both agreed that I could be ready in time. Mike suggested that I should meet with his nutritionist, Dave Lyford, to help me with my diet. Dave has provided me with all my pre-contest and off-season diets and has become a great friend. Dr. Robinson helps me with my weight training, isometric posing, and coaches me back stage during competitions, along with everything else in life. I am really fortunate to have such supportive family members, friends, and colleagues. Without them I wouldn't have accomplished as much as I have.

I entered the ANBC New England Natural Bodybuilding & Figure Championships and won the novice women's best poser and overall, and the open women's overall. This show qualified me for the nationals for two years. I was told that I should compete in the U.S. ANBC Naturals Bodybuilding, Figure & Fitness Championships held in New Mexico one week later and that I could probably get my Pro Card. My husband and I decided to go for it! I placed first in the open women's tall class and obtained my Pro Card.

I then went on competing in the 2005 Muscle Mania Atlantic placing first in the open women's class. Then two weeks later, I decided to try an NPC show, which was not drug tested. I wanted to see how well I could do as a natural bodybuilder against women who were not natural. The 2005 New England Bodybuilding & Fitness Championship was held in Boston, MA. I knew realistically that I more than likely wouldn't even place, but I wanted to try anyway. I was the lightest woman in the women's heavy weight class, weighing 134 pounds. I ended up placing second in this show and the female that did win was 20 pounds heavier than me. It was a great competition and an awesome experience for me!

Some of my other accomplishments include being a mother of three children ages 9, 5, and 1. I am enrolled full time and on the Dean's list at Bridgewater State College. I will be graduating with a Bachelor's degree in physical education in fall of 2006. I am also a full time employee at the Acushnet Company located in New Bedford, Ma. I have had the honor of being a guest poser for my Theory/Practice Program of Resistance Training class. I was also featured in my local new paper, The Standard Times, for my bodybuilding accomplishments. Dr. Ellyn Robinson, a professor at Bridgewater State College, has done a flattering write up about my accomplishments last year which was posted on the Bridgewater State College website. I am also on my nutritionist's website, davelyford.com.

My fitness goal is to be the best all natural for life bodybuilder that I can be. My ideal occupations would be fitness modeling, competing, and owning my own fitness facility. My life goal is to be the best mother that I can for my children.

CONTEST HISTORY

10/16/93 - ANBC Whaling City Bodybuilding Championships
Age: 15
Weight: 120
Placing: Women 1st Place Overall
Best Poser

10/30/04 - ANBC-New England Natural Bodybuilding & Figure Championships
Age: 26
Weight: 142
Placing: Novice-Women Best Poser
Novice-Women Overall Champion
Open-Women Division Overall Champion

11/04/04 - ANBC-U.S. ANBC Naturals Bodybuilding, Figure & fitness Championships
Age: 26
Weight: 140
Placing: Open Women Tall 1st place - Earned Pro Status

04/23/05 - Muscle Mania Atlantic
Age: 27
Weight: 138
Placing: Open Women 1st place

05/08/05 - NPC-2005 New England Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships
Age: 27
Weight: 134
Placing: Heavy Weight 2nd place

08/20/2005 - NASS-2005 Hudson River Strongman
Age: 27
Weight: 163
Placing: 1st place - Qualified for Nationals

09/24/2005 - NPC-Northeastern Tournament of Champions Bodybuilding, Fitness, & Figure Championships In conjunction with Massachusetts State Bodybuilding Championships
Age: 27
Weight: 143
Placing: 2nd in both shows
Qualified for Nationals & Team Universe

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ENDEAVORS

Featured in numerous websites and have also done modeling for Unlawful Tendencies for their third DVD.
Guest posed and lectured for the Theory/Practice Program of Resistance Training class held at Bridgewater State College in 2004.
Personal trainer, as well as teacher of isometric posing for bodybuilding shows.
September 21, 2005 - Guest on CN8- The Comcast Network, "Sports Pulse", hosted by Ed Berliner