2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Casey Daugherty (Women's BB)

Daugherty is a 26 year old personal trainer from Lake City, FL Stage pic courtesy of Dan Ray other photos are by unidentified photographer.



Career highlights: 2006 Nationals - NPC, Light-HeavyWeight, 6th
2007 USA Championships - NPC, Light-HeavyWeight, 11th
2008 Junior USA - NPC, HeavyWeight, 2nd

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Noel Clark (Figure)

Clark is a former collegiate soccer player turned figure competitor and is competing in the city she calls home Atlanta. Top pic courtesy of HDphysiques and bottom two were done by Dan Ray.



Career highlights: 2008 Junior Nationals - NPC, Figure F, 2nd
Junior USA - NPC, Figure F, 6th

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Lori Steele (Women's BB)

Steele, who has a gymnastics background, started out competing in Figure and resides in Manchester, NH. Pics courtesy of Dan Ray



Career highlights: 2006 New England Championships - NPC, Figure, 1st and overall winner
2007 Junior Nationals - NPC, LightWeight, 1st
2008 North American Championships - IFBB, LightWeight, 1st

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Brandie Williams (Figure)

Williams runs a gym with her husband in Jackson, TN, pics courtesy of Dan Ray


Career Highlights: 2008 Junior USA - NPC, Figure D, 16th

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Amanda Quinlan (Figure)

Quinlan hails from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, pic courtesy of Dan Ray



Career Highlights: 2007North American Championships - IFBB, Figure C, 7th
USA Championships - NPC, Figure E, 4th
2008 USA Championships - NPC, Figure D, 4th

Flex in the Blog...Shana Skillstad

Skillstad is one of the bright young faces of the bodybuilding industry. Recently, Shana who is a personal trainer relocated to Chino, CA, from Nebraska and was the women's bb winner of this weekends Tournament of Champions NPC Show held in Anaheim, CA.






pics courtesy of Bill Comstock

Flex in the Blog...Katka Kryptova

Presenting Czech Republic's lovely looking Katka Kyptova who hits the quarter century mark in age today. To see more pics and to learn more about Katka please visit www.katkakyptova.com




Photo credit: Ondrej Cecetka

Flex in the Blog...Tomoko Kanda

In her native Japan she is known as the Steel Butterfly. Tomoko competes steroids free and hopes to compete in a show in the United States soon. To learn more about this extraordinary beauty from Osaka, Japan visit her own site at http://www.kandatomoko.net/main.html plus follow her journey at http://tomoko.musclemediajapan.com/

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Crystal Piercy (Figure)

Residing in Colorado Springs, CO, Piercy is a former Olympic level athlete in the sport of Judo. Since retiring from competitive judo in 2005 Crystal has gone on to become the 2007 NPC Rocky Mountain Championships Figure overall winner. This will be her first appearance at Figure Nationals.


top pic courtesy of JC Lopez, bottom Dan Ray

2008 Atlantic City IFBB Women's Pro Preview

Where: Atlantic City, NJ
When: September 13, 2008
Projected Women's Bodybuilding field:

Angela Debatin


Annie Rivieccio


Aurelia Grozajova


Betty Viana-Adkins


Carla Salotti


Charlotte Collins


Emery Miller


Irene Andersen


Isabelle Turell


Jana Linke-Sipppl


Kim Buck


Lisa Aukland


Mah-Ann Mendoza


Maria Calo


Marja Lehtonen


Mary Ellen Jerumbo


Melanie DeRosa


Mercedes Bazemore


Tonia Moore




All pics courtesy of Iron Man Online www.graphicmuscle.com

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Christina Rhodes (Women's BB)

Contest history:
2004 Sacramento Championships - NPC, HeavyWeight, 1st
2006 USA Championships - NPC, HeavyWeight, 11th
2007 Junior USA - NPC, HeavyWeight, 3rd
Masters Nationals - NPC, HeavyWeight, 12th
Nationals - NPC, Light-HeavyWeight, 7th
2008 North Americans - IFBB, Heavyweight, 3rd



Christina lives in New Mexico and please take a moment to check out her own website at http://www.christinarhodes.com/

Pics courtesy of Dan Ray

2008 NPC Nationals Competitor Intro's...Tracey Mason (Women's BB)

Mason is a trainer from Marquette, MI who recently won the 45+ class at the recent Master's Nationals in Pittsburgh.


Career hghlights:
1998 North American Championships - IFBB, LightWeight, 5th
2001 Junior Nationals - NPC, MiddleWeight, 1st
USA Championships - NPC, LightWeight, 4th
2004 North American Championships - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 2nd
2005 Junior Nationals - NPC, MiddleWeight, 2nd
USA Championships - NPC, MiddleWeight, 6th
2006 Junior Nationals - NPC, MiddleWeight, 1st, Overall Winner
North American Championships - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 3rd
2007 North American Championships - IFBB, MiddleWeight, 1st
2008 Masters Nationals - NPC, MiddleWeight, 2nd

Flex in the Blog...2008 Canadian Nationals Part Deux

Sue Cornwell


Cornwell is a veterinarian who specializes in large animals from Ontario who competes 'all natural' and is trained by IFBB Pro Laura Binetti.


As many of your may know a blast from the past competitor by the name of Teresa Nabors Paschal won the coveted IFBB Pro card this past weekend at the North Americans show. So why would I be brining it up again you might ask...well how many of you all remember a Canadian competitor by the name of Dawn Young? She competed as far back as 1995 well now she goes by the surname of Allison and will be on stage this weekend in Montreal.

Dawn Allison




Here are a few more names to watch out for:
Nathalie Mulder
Grete Clary
Amilie Bourget
Wendy McMaster
Marilynne MacKenzie

Thanks to twixpix.com and the guys at unreal muscle for keeping me informed.