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Night of Champions

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This is Nate Brookreson, Director of Athletic Performance here at EWU. Wanted to extend all of you on this board (as well as anyone you can inform) an invitation to the first annual Night of Champions. This will be an event where the public can come in to the Strength & Conditioning center and watch our football athletes participate in their winter testing. Tests will include vertical jump, power clean and bench press. Participants are as follows:

Vertical Jump
• Adams, Vernon
• Evan, Day
• Forte, Quincy
• Johnson, Daniel
• Larry, Anthony
• Mitchell, Cory
• Raynes, Todd
• Seto, Ryan
• Stagg, Shane
• Vitto, Anthony
• Weatheroy, Miles
Power Clean
• Brown, Mario
• Chapman, Zack
• Curtis, Cassidy
• Gehring, Zach
• Hamlin, Ronnie
• Kupp, Cooper
• McCarthy, Cody
• Pugsley, Jacob
• Schmidt, Branson
• Zamora, Miquiyah
• Zylstra, Dylan
Bench Press
• Baines, Ronald
• Brown, Allen
• Butorac, Jase
• Debord, Clay
• Forgette, Steve
• Goldwire, John
• Humphrey, Cody
• Katoa, Will
• Miller, Ashton
• Murphy, Brandon
• Pulu, Andru
• Reynolds, Drew
• Schuetzle, Bo
• Talley, Jordan
• Tonani, Jordan

In addition, pro day athletes Brandon Kaufman, Greg Herd, Zach Johnson, Jerry Ceja, Nick Edwards and Will Post, as well as current players, will be available for autographs following the testing. The cost will be $25 at the door and all proceeds will go the benefit the Strength & Conditioning department at EWU. Look forward to seeing you all there!

Nate
 
I'd love to go... don't know if I can make it or not. It would be cool to know who the top performers are in all the categories.
 
I really want to make it...just don't know if I can get out of work Friday afternoon to make the drive across the state. Seems like a perfectly good excuse to miss work if you ask me. It should be a great exhibition.
 
What a great event!
Some of these guys are amazing, like in animal amazing!! Will Katoe, Andru Pulu to mention a coupe. Then there are the quite type that step up and lift almost 300 lbs like Cooper Kupp. I missed some of the earlier players but what I saw was impressive.
One coach told me when asked, has the bar gone up over the years? He emphatically said "oh YES" a few years ago before Nate we had very few linemen that could lift over 300 lbs. Tonight the starting point was over 300 and it ended up with a couple of guys over 400 lbs.
All that participated were really impressive.
Great support from seniors as well like Johnson, Kaufman, and Post to mention a few.
Pls excuse the typos.
Go Eagles
 
Coach Brookreson should be commended for starting the "Night of Champions" last Friday. What a great opportunity it was to be able to see our athletes out of their helmets and shoulder pads and see them interact with each other as a team. Great opportunity to see next years players and see the work they put in that yields wins in the fall!!! Also a rare opportunity to see some of last years seniors before they go off to the NFL.

The Bench Press is something that most of us know and relate to strength and to see the ease at which 425# was put up shows raw strength. It was also nice seeing the vertical jump added to see the athleticism of a nice cross section of players. The power clean is not a lift that many see, unless you have played the sport, but is a lift that translates into the game and develops power and explosiveness. Great seeing numbers over 300# there.

I hope this event continues and grows into something we all look forward to as much as the Spring Game :clap:

Below is Quincy Forte performing his vertical jump, Cody McCarthy catching 335# before barely missing 352#, and Andru Pulu Benching 405# before his 425# press with Ronnie Hamlin spotting him
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That's a 335 power clean... not too shabby. For a LB to put up that kind of weight impresses me a lot more than a DL benching 425. Granted, I'm heavily biased because power cleans were always tough for me, but I can bench a lot.

I know dead lift wasn't part of the battery, but that is another excellent "real strength" exercise. When you see a guy lift 700 off the floor and the bar is bending at both ends, that's friggin impressive.
 
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