Chris Sinagoga | Wednesday, June 15, 2016 at 7:00PM by, Erika Banet
It is that time of year again when all of our high school seniors graduate and become big boys and girls. After years of being part of the Champions Club, I have become acquainted with most of the people here, but especially with the Class of 2016 (all eight of them!) mostly because my own grade consisted of Master P and myself for the majority of the time. (For the record, Ricky only had to write about two people so I definitely already beat him HA). But without further adieu, here are some congratulations to our seniors, the Class of 2016…
The Chunk and Chris - October 2011
Ricky joined the Champions Club as a little chunk (literally like that little guy from the Goonies) far before most of us even knew it was a thing. You could probably find Ricky snatching heavy weight with his insane shoulder flexibility or partaking in weird obnoxious conversations with myself or anyone in the gym for that matter.
Ion - December 2011
Aaron has also been here before my time. You will always know when he is in the box based on the music that is playing aka he probably has one of the best playlists out of all of us. He also sets the bar for being one of the nicest people at the gym.
Lil Kim - April 2012
Hannah Kimmel will probably go down in Champions Club history as being one of the sassiest 9 am’ers. I will always remember walking into the 10 am session of my first summer here when we would have to wait for the 9 am session to finish up their workouts. All that I would think was how impressed I was of their workout, especially Hannah!
Pudge - first day at the new building. June 2012
Abby (or Pudge) is definitely just like her mom when it comes to her personality at the box. She’s always very sweet and very easy to spark a conversation with, no matter who you are. The Champions Club atmosphere is definitely a lot different when she’s around!
Alyssa - February 2014
Alyssa Jabara seems to have been a prodigy of sorts… Alyssa Jabara doing Alyssa Jabara things. From the day Alyssa started during the Mott rush, she seemed to have fit like a glove (pun intended) with the community. Even with the workouts from the start, she stayed on top of her game with great numbers.
Collin - July 2013
Whenever I think of Collin, he is always “the Baseball Kid”. At the box, I always see him wearing his uniform or coming straight from practice to mobilize (or get out of workouts cough cough). There are the people at the box who dislike max efforts, and there are also those people who absolutely love max efforts, and Collin is definitely one of them. He seems to always PR or do something big with lifts.
JZ and Jacqueline before "JZ and Jacqueline" - September 2013
In all honesty, when I first went to write this I forgot JZ was even a senior. I genuinely thought he was older so I guess that is a compliment to him in a way. But JZ is also lowkey sassy and by lowkey I actually mean highkey. He is definitely right up there with Hannah. He is also one of our baseball kids at the box that comes from his games and practices to just hang out (lazy, I know).
Biff - Summer 2013. Katie Bromm was the superstar this year, but Elizabeth was two years in the making
Last but not least is my sister Elizabeth aka Biff. Biff is definitely one of the most disciplined people I have ever known. She is always super hard on herself both in workouts and in school, or even anything else for that matter. And if anyone hasn’t seen the video of her lip syncing to Kelly Clarkson, I strongly recommend. That one totally beats all of her extreme workout videos on the site.
It will definitely be very different with these seniors leaving for the first time from the box, not only because of the amount of them, but also because of their known personality as a group. This group is definitely one of the closest-knit group of seniors at the box, but it is obvious that when they all get together again at the box, it will be as if nothing has changed (just that they all have a significantly small amount of money in their bank account in comparison to before). Congratulations to all the Champions Club Seniors of 2016!
Erika and her crew. May 2014
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