The bi-annual Speed, Strength, Training (SST) contest between Kenai Central High School, Nikiski Middle-High School, and Soldotna High School is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30 at Nikiski High School. Event time is 6:00 p.m. and admission is free.
The Speed and Strength Training competition is a biannual event with the spring competition including the clean, snatch and back squat weight lifting competitions. The event will also include the Fight Gone Bad competition; in which, athletes work to pile up as many reps as they can in a designated time in five separate events — box jumps, kettle ball swings, push presses, ball slams and wall balls.
Each discipline is separated into four classifications; freshman and sophomore girls, freshman and sophomore boys, junior and senior girls and junior and senior boys.
Nikiski, SoHi and Kenai Central schools all provide the SST curriculum. Students must be enrolled in a class that teaches the proper techniques in the clean, snatch and squat lifting events, and also focuses on speed and agility training. The speed and agility portion of the SST competition is competed in the fall semester. Students compete in the fall with the running component which includes the broad jump, vertical jump, 40 yard dash, I test, and FGB (Fight Gone Bad). Students also compete for the traveling team trophy.
SST Spring 2015 Results
In the spring competition in 2015, six new records were set and one record tied in the lifting events. The snatch event surrender the most new standards. Soldotna’s Austin Schrader set a new high of 170 pounds in the boys freshman and sophomore category, Kenai’s Lara Creighton tied her own mark of 105 pounds shared with teammate Alexis Baker in the freshman-sophomore girls class, Kenai’s Cipriana Castellano set a new record of 135 pounds in the junior-senior girls class, and Kenai’s Jace Baker lifted 205 pounds in the junior-senior boys class. Soldotna’s Adam O’Guinn, in the squat event, set an SST-record 455 pounds in the boys junior-senior class.
