By Gus Rethwisch
I want to thank our sponsors – Brian and Denise Welker and Welker Engineering, Shawn Madere and GLC Direct Joint Formula, Ken Anderson and Anderson Powerlifting, Pete Alaniz and Titan Support Systems, Slavich Samoylich and Events by Idea the official T-shirt printer for WABDL, Suzy and Dan Simmons of USANA Health Products, Reid Solar, Coby Washburn, Keith Lemm and CSS Photo Design the official photographer of the meet, David R Smith, Natasha Williams of B2Y Rehabilitation & Sports Therapy – who has helped my back tremendously by the way. Also, Matt Ogurek, Keith Sayles, Chet Groskruetz of Ivanko Barbell, and Odd Haugen of Dot Fit.
I want to thank our staff – Elma Thomas and Karen Campbell who worked many hours usually until 2:00am every day and one day it was 6:00am. Deron Agaran, who helped M.C. and also judged many days. Gary and Martha Shim who judged – Martha was also scorekeeper and computer facilitator, Jocelyn Ronolo – computer facilitator, Dawn Sacre who worked the barload program all week without relief. Kayla Krueger and Christie Luehrs were great scorekeepers. Christie also helped with computer facilitator. The weigh-in room staff of – Dennis Schmidt, Karen Campbell, Rebekah Schmidt, Melissa Zumwalt, Eric Zumwalt and Gary Miller. Gary also loaded all the plywood for staging, two benches and 3,000 lbs. of weights and brought it to the meet from Pahrump. Dave Constantineau and Troy Pia Provided Door Security. Freddie Evangelista was the night time security guy. The platform manager was Troy Pia and he and Preston Quinn, Steve Barnes, Kevin Alves and Shahid Shubazz were spotter-loaders.
Judges were – Jim Snodgrass, Ron L’Huillier, Terry Luehrs, Deron Agaran, Mike Saito, Jim Presley, Gary and Martha Shim, Reid Solar, Al Stork and Warren Orr. Trophy set up was Al Stork and Freddie Evangelista.
Drug control officers were Al Stork and Dr. Mark Webber.
David Palmer provided “the Live Stream”.
Jason Sacre also brought weights as well as Gus Rethwisch and Alan Fraser.
Teresa Plowman and Lisa Leong sold tickets and t-shirts.