2000 STATE MEET

THE 2000 LHSPLA STATE MEET RETURNED TO THE GOLD DOME ON THE CAMPUS OF ST. AMANT HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE 3RD TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE MEET. OVER 500 LIFTERS FROM 5 DIFFERENT CLASSIFICATIONS OF SCHOOLS COMPETED IN THE 2000 STATE MEET. THE OVERALL MEET WAS THE LARGEST IN THE HISTORY OF THE LHSPLA AND PROVIDED SOME OUTSTANDING LIFTING AND COMPETITION BETWEEN THE DIVISION I AND II TEAMS THAT MAKE UP THE LHSPLA. CLOSE FINISHES; CONTINUED DOMINANCE AND A FEW NEWCOMERS WERE THE MARKS OF THE 2000 STATE CHAMPIONSHIP MEET.

IN GIRLS 5-A COMPETITION ONE OF THE MOST HIGH CONTESTED MEETS IN THE HISTORY OF THE LHSPLA ENDED WITH WEST MONROE HIGH SCHOOL UNSEATING THE 3 TIME DEFENDING 5-A CHAMPION LADY GATORS FROM ST. AMANT HIGH SCHOOL. WEST MONORE SCORED 26 POINTS, RUNNER-UP ST. AMANT HIGH SCHOOL SCORED 24 POINTS, WITH 3RD PLACE FINISHER SLIDELL HIGH SCHOOL SCORING 21 POINTS. WEST MONROE, WITHOUT AN INDIVIDUAL WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPION, SCORED POINTS IN 10 DIFFERENT WEIGHT CLASSES. THE COMBINED EFFORTS OF JESSICA HAYNES, AMBER TYLER, J.J. HORNE, KATY SANDERSON, AMY SMITH, ALLYSON FONDRENS, ERIN NORRIS, ANGELA AUSTIN, BRITTNEY SISSON AND MELISSA HEARD LED WEST MONROE TO THERE TEAM TITLE. WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS BETH COUVILLION AND TONI MILES LED ST. AMANT. SLIDELL PLACED THIRD THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS LISA LUC AND ANGELA NARCISSE.

IN THE 4-A COMPETITION, IT WAS BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR THE GIRLS FROM ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. IT WAS THE 9TH STRAIGHT TITLE FOR ASH. ASH SCORED 59 POINTS TO WIN THEIR 4-A TITLE. FINISHING AS STATE RUNNER-UP WAS TIOGA HIGH SCHOOL, SCORING 15 POINTS. ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL ALSO SCORED 15 POINTS TO TIE TIOGA’S SCORE. THEY PLACED 3RD BECAUSE TIOGA HAD A HIGHER PLACE FINISHER IN A WEIGHT CLASS THAN THEY DID. LEADING THE GIRLS FROM ASH WERE WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS JILLIAN LONG, ASHLEY MATT, KRYSTAL KELLY, JESSICA HAYNES AND TAKEIMA DIALS. TIOGA WAS LED BY 220 LB. WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPION MALAINA HERRINGTON. LEADING ZACHARY’S THIRD PLACE EFFORT JESSLYNN EASLEY AND LaQUANDA JOHNSON.

IN GIRLS 3-A ACTION BRUSLY OUTSCORED BUCKEYE HIGH SCHOOL BY A SCORE OF 6 TO 1 TO WIN THEIR 4TH TRIPLE-A TITLE. 97 LB. CLASS RUNNER-UP JENNIFER PREJEAN LED BRUSLY.

IN CLASS 2-A EPISCOPAL HELD ON TO THEIR PRE-MEET RANKING TO WIN THE SCHOOL’S FIRST EVER STATE TITLE. FINISHING SECOND TO EPISCOPAL (30 POINTS) WAS OUACHITA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL WHO FINISHED WITH 24 POINTS AND PLACING 3RD WAS ROSEPINE HIGH SCHOOL WITH 10 POINTS. LEADING THE WAY FOR THE LADY KNIGHTS WERE DIVISION II CLASS CHAMPIONS KRISTEN GUIDRY AND LESLEY SANCHEZ. ALSO SCORING POINTS FOR EPISCOPAL WERE RACHEL CHETTA, ROBIN YOUNG, MEGHAN SCOBEE, MAGAN ZIMMERMAN AND COURTNEY HEBERT. LEADING THE WAY FOR OUACHITA CHRISTIAN WAS DIVISION II WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPION SADRIAN MERRITT. ROSEPINE WAS LED BY THE EFFORTS OF DIVISION II SHW CHAMPION KARA CASSELS.

IN 1-A AND BELOW LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF WON THEIR 5TH STRAIGHT 1-A AND BELOW TITLE BY OUTSCORING THE GIRLS FROM LAKE ARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL, 26-25. FINISHING 3RD IN 1-A AND BELOW WAS FALSE RIVER ACADEMY WHO SCORED 15 POINTS. LEADING THE WAY FOR LSD WERE WEIGHT DIVISION II WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS TANESHA PETE AND TANISHA VERON. LAKE ARTHUR WAS PACED BY THE EFFORTS OF SARA BROUSSARD AND GINA BELLARD. FALSE RIVER GOT 10 OF ITS 15 MEET POINTS THROUGH THE 2ND PLACE EFFORTS OF CANDACE WELLS AND JESSICA LAFITTE.

THE OUTSTANDING LIFTER AWARDS FOR 2000 WENT TO THE FOLLOWING LIFTERS.
ASHLEY MATT, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN THE 97 - 132 LB. WEIGHT CLASSES, TAKEIMA DIALS, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH IN THE 148 LB. - SHW WEIGHT CLASSES.

COACHES OF THE YEAR AWARDS WERE PRESENTED TO:

5-A - CASEY SANDERS, WEST MONROE HIGH SCHOOL
4-A - DUANE URBINA, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH
3-A - DARREN CHAUVIN, BRUSLY HIGH SCHOOL
2-A - STEVE BARONICH, EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF BATON ROUGE
1-A AND BELOW - RUTH KRISOFF, LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF

CLASSIFICATION COMPETITION FINISHES FOR THE GIRLS STATE MEET IN 2000 WERE AS FOLLOWS:

5-A: 1ST PLACE, WEST MONROE HIGH SCHOOL, 2ND PLACE, ST. AMANT HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE, SLIDELL HIGH SCHOOL.
4-A: 1ST PLACE, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH (9TH CONSECUTIVE TITLE), 2ND PLACE, TIOGA HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE, ZACHARY HIGH SCHOOL.
3-A: 1ST PLACE, BRUSLY HIGH SCHOOL (3RD CONSECUTIVE STATE TITLE), 2ND PLACE, BUCKEYE HIGH SCHOOL
2-A: 1ST PLACE, EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL (1ST STATE TITLE), 2ND PLACE, OUACHITA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE, ROSEPINE HIGH SCHOOL.
1-A AND BELOW: 1ST PLACE, LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (5TH STRAIGHT TITLE), 2ND PLACE, LAKE ARTHUR HIGH SCHOOL, 3RD PLACE, FALSE RIVER ACADEMY.

IN THE BOYS 5-A COMPETITION FOR 2000 PERENNIAL POWERS WEST MONROE, ST. AMANT AND NATCHITOCHES CENTRAL GAVE WAY TO THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK SLIDELL HIGH SCHOOL. SLIDELL WON THE 5-A COMPETITION WITH 55 POINTS. WEST MONROE SCORED 49 POINTS TO PLACE AS STATE RUNNER-UP FOLLOWED UP BY 3RD PLACE NATCHITOCHES CENTRAL WITH 37 POINTS. IN A MEET THAT FEATURED SOME CLOSE FINISHES, THE 5-A COMPETITION DID NOT FAIL TO KEEP THE INTEREST OF ALL THE FANS DURING THE DAY. SLIDELL BEHIND THE EFFORTS OF WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS SID FORET, DANIEL GALLAVAN, KENNY REYNOLDS, JOSEPH SYLVE AND TRAVIS CLARK BASICALLY DEADLIFTED THEIR WAY TO THE STATE TITLE. LEADING WEST MONROE’S RUNNER-UP EFFORTS WERE LED BY COREY BRAZIL, DEMARIO TAYLOR, CASEY SANDERS AND ANDREW WHITWORTH. TRAVIS SMITH AND JOHNATHON BLAKE WERE THE TOP LIFTERS FOR THE 3RD PLACE CHIEFS FROM NATCHITOCHES CENTRAL.

IN 4-A, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ONCE AGAIN DOMINATED THE COMPETITION SCORING 64 POINTS TO OUTDISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM 2ND PLACE SALMEN WITH 33 POINTS AND 3RD PLACE BISHOP SULLIVAN WHO SCORED 22 POINTS. ALEXANDRIA WAS PACED BY THE EFFORTS OF STEPHEN MOSES, CHAD HOLMES, MARCUS SMITH, JASON SUTER, JUSTIN JARRED AND NATHAN PATRICK. SALMEN WAS LED BY 220 LB. WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPION JOHN CAMPBELL AND DIVISION I CLASS 4A 242 LB. CHAMPION KELVIN DOSS. BRENTLY MARCHAND AND JIMMY JENKINS SCORED 10 OF BISHOP SULLIVAN’S 22 TEAM POINTS IN LEADING THEM TO A 3RD PLACE FINISH.

THE 3-A COMPETITION BY FAR WAS THE MOST HIGHLY CONTESTED CLASSIFICATION OF THE DAY. RAYNE, CALDWELL AND BRUSLY HIGH SCHOOL ALL FINISHED THE DAY WITH 38 POINTS EACH. A 3-WAY TIE FOR FIRST. MEET OFFICIALS HAD TO GO TO THE 3RD TIEBREAKER TO DETERMINE THE TRIPLE-A WINNER. RAYNE WON THE TITLE BECAUSE THEY HAD MORE 3RD PLACE FINISHERS THAN CALDWELL HIGH SCHOOL. CLASS CHAMPIONS COREY SIMON, MIKE LEBLANC AND SCOTT MILLER LED RAYNE. LEADING THE WAY FOR CALDWELL WERE CLASS CHAMPIONS JUSTIN MARTIN, BRANDON HOLMES AND REGGIE RORUEMORE. BRUSLY WAS LED BY THE EFFORTS OF CLASS CHAMPION AARON BERTRAND.

IN CLASS 2-A FARMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL HAD 6 CLASS 2-A WEIGHT CLASS CHAMPIONS IN RUNNING AWAY WITH THE 2-A TITLE. OUACHITA CHRISTIAN PLACED 2ND WITH 28 POINTS, PICKERING FINISHED THIRD WITH 19 POINTS. CLASS CHAMPIONS FOR FARMERVILLE WERE TREMEL PALMER, BEN FIELDS, MARCUS THOMPSON, JULIO HAULEY, JASON DIXON AND DONNIE MARTIN. BRANDON BROWN, JARROD HEATH AND JOSH SCHMITT LED OUACHITA CHRISTIAN. 3RD PLACE FINISHER PICKERING HIGH SCHOOL WAS LED BY THE EFFORTS OF HAROLD YATES AND SHAUN GIBBS.

IN 1-A AND BELOW FALSE RIVER WON THEIR 1ST STATE TITLE BY OUTSCORING LAKE ARTHUR 36 - 33. LOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ROUNDED OUT THE TOP 3 BY SCORING 23 POINTS IN THEIR 3RD PLACE FINISH. FALSE RIVER WAS LED BY THE EFFORTS OF CLASS CHAMPIONS CHAYSE MELANCON AND JACOB DEDON. LAKE ARTHUR GOT OUTSTANDING EFFORTS FROM NICK McCOY, STEPHEN ORGERON AND DALE BROUSSARD TO PACE THEIR 2ND PLACE FINISH. RICHYLAND LEBLANC LED LSD.

OUTSTANDING LIFTERS IN THE DIVISION I MEET IN 2000 WERE:
DANIEL GALLAVAN, SLIDELL HIGH SCHOOL - 114 - 165 LB. WEIGHT CLASSES
JOHN CAMPBELL, SALMEN HIGH SCHOOL - 181 LB. TO SHW WEIGHT CLASSES

OUTSTANDING LIFTERS IN THE DIVISION II MEET WERE:
CHAYSE MELANCON, FALSE RIVER HIGH SCHOOL - 114 - 165 LB. WEIGHT CLASSES
JULIO HAULEY, FARMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL - 181 LB. TO SHW WEIGHT CLASSES.

COACHES OF THE YEAR AWARDS WERE PRESENTED TO:

5-A - FRANK JABBIA, SLIDELL HIGH SCHOOL
4-A - ERIC COOK, ALEXANDRIA SENIOR HIGH
3-A - EDDIE BERGERON, RAYNE HIGH SCHOOL
2-A - JERRY GINN, FARMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
1-A AND BELOW - REED BEUCHE, FALSE RIVER ACADEMY

CLASSIFICATION COMPETITION FINISHES FOR THE BOYS STATE MEET IN 2000 WERE AS FOLLOWS: