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Athlete of the Week: El
Chris Sinagoga | Saturday, July 22, 2023 at 7:12PM This Summer is making me completely rethink the concept of a Rookies session, as well as Babies and Double-A. When I scan the gym around 10:25 every weekday, I do double- and triple-takes to try and get a sense of who will and won't be in the workout. And it doesn't end there; any of the afternoon sessions are just as likely to have some of the Farm System stragglers playing wiffle ball on the turf, swinging on the play structures, or climbing to dangerous heights on the pull-up bars. And so for the first time in Champions Club Summer history, we have an Athlete of the Week who might not even technically be on the full-time roster: El Nevarez.
El always gets mad at me when I don't spell her name "Elle" on the whiteboard, but now that she's being featured on the website I figured it would be no time to break the streak of getting on her nerves.
The question gets brought up almost every day to El: "Do you want to work out or do you want to play?" And, as you know, she isn't being asked to participate in step aerobics and the lat pull-down machine, and the question isn't coming from some polite, flexible figure of authority. And yet, every single time I've asked El this week, she's come back with the same answer: "I want to work out!" Whether that's running and pull-ups and dips (push-ups for her), or the Chief, or burpees and squat holds; in fact, the only one I said "no" to was max effort deadlifts on Friday... and you can check the picture above to see how that answer went over.
In a world where parents and coaches are the primary motivating point for kids, fighting for them when they need to be fighting for themselves and volunteering them for things they, themselves, would not have done when they were that age, El Nevarez is leading a young group of minions that are taking ownership of their fitness.
Raise your hand if you were doing CrossFit when you were El's age...
Right then, me either. Let's don't mess it up in the next 12 years until she gets to Dillon Sharp's age. And in the meantime, keep up the great work kiddo!
