Sara Cowles
Name: Sara Cowles
Weight Class: 53 kg
Height: 5'0"
Birth date: March 15th, 1990
Hometown: Daytona Beach, Florida
USA Weightlifting Club: Team Florida Volusia County
Coaches: Thomas Bennett, Andy Tysz
College Attending or Graduate of: Northern Michigan University
When did you begin weightlifting? 2005
How did you get involved? The girls weightlifting team at my high school.
Goals: Make the 100% of the Junior World total in 2010.
Best Competition Snatch: 63 kg
Date: 03/2009
Best Competition Clean & Jerk: 84 kg
Date: 06/2009
Best Competition Total: 144 kg
Date: 03/2009
Favorite Competition Lift: Clean and Jerk
Favorite Training Lift: Back Squat
Best Squat: 110 kg
Best Front Squat: 100 kg
Best Power Snatch Single: 56 kg
Power Clean Single: 70 kg
American Records Held: n/a
Most Influential person(s) in your sporting career: My first coach, Thomas Bennett,
National Championships Won: Junior Nationals 2009
International Competition Best: 13th at Junior Worlds 2009
Hobbies/Interests outside of weightlifting: I love to read and be with my friends and family.
Favorite Book(s): We the Living by Ayn Rand, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, 1984 by George Orwell, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Favorite TV Show: Scrubs
Favorite Music Genre: Indie
Favorite Food: Fried Green Tomatoes
Most People Don't know that...(complete the sentence about you): I hope to join the Peace Corps after my lifting career is complete.
