by Malcolm Butler
Cedar Creek’s attempt at repeating as the Division V state champions came up just short Wednesday, but a pair of Cougars won individual state titles at the LHSAA State Powerlifting Championships held at the Ponchartrain Center in Kenner.
Wyatt Gremillion and Blake Robinson both captured the state title in their respective weight classes to lead Cedar Creek to a third place finish. Three more Cougars earned a podium finish with Asa Singleton, Kaleb Negrotto and Logan Amidon all coming in third in their weight classes.
Ascension Catholic won the state title on the boys side while Sacred Heart Ville Platte finished as the state runner-up. The two teams tied with 40 points each with Ascension Catholic winning it on a first place tiebreaker.
One day after being named the head coach of the Cougars football program, Jacob Angevine watched his powerlifting team come up a little shy of repeating as state champions.
“Our boys battled hard yesterday,” said Angevine. “The squat didn’t go as well as we hoped, and it was hard to recover after that. We went 19/33 on squat, but pretty sure we only missed seven or eight lifts total as a team the rest of the day.
“I’m really proud of our boys for not giving up when they could have laid down after squat. They are bought in to our Us vs. Us mentality and fought the whole day.”
Gremillion captured the gold in the 181-pound weight class with a three-lift total of 1,355 pounds, while Robinson won the 242-pound class with a total of 1,455 pounds. Gremillion was awarded the Most Outstanding Lifter on the heavy platform.
Below are the Cougar competitors and their totals.
Cooper Greer 123 655 total
Asa Singleton 3rd 123 820 total
Kaleb Negrotto 3rd 148 1030 total
Aiden Crosby 5th 165 1125 total
Wyatt Gremillion 1st 181 1355 total
Josh Robbins 181 1100 total
Logan Amidon 3rd 220 1340 total
Blake Robinson 1st 242 1455 total
Aidan Woods 242 1170 total
Kaden Williams 4th 275 1380 total
Chandler Bullock 4th SHW 1350 total
