Jessica Gallagher
Name: Jessica Gallagher
Weight Class: 58
Height: 5'2
Birth date: September 26, 1989
Hometown: Longwood, Florida
USA Weightlifting Club: Team-Florida Altamonte
Coaches: Andy Tysz & Danny Camargo
College Attending or Graduate of: Northern Michigan University
When did you begin weightlifting? I started the beginning of my sophomore year of highschool.
How did you get involved? I lifted for the highschool team that was bench and clean and jerk. One of my friends on the team was on the Olympic-style team coached by Danny Camargo. She convinced me to come in. I loved it.
Goals: To make an Olympic team, and to hold a national record.
Best Competition Snatch: 70
Date: March, 2009
Best Competition Clean & Jerk: 88
Date: March, 2009
Best Competition Total: 158
Date: March 2009
Favorite Competition Lift: jerks
Favorite Training Lift: snatches
Best Squat: 133
Best Front Squat: 113
Best Power Snatch Single: 63
Power Clean Single: 85
American Records Held: none
Most Influential person(s) in your sporting career: My mom, and my coaches.
Hobbies/Interests outside of weightlifting: Listening to music, dancing, laughing, hanging out with friends, reading.
Favorite Book(s): A Long Way Gone, The Da Vinci Code...
Favorite TV Show: One Tree Hill, Grey's Anatomy, Smallville
Favorite Music Genre: everything
Favorite Food: pasta
Most People Don't know that...(complete the sentence): my second favorite sport is soccer.
