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 29 at Soldotna 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.
Record breakers from spring of 2016 include:
KCHS Cipriana Castellano-Junior-Senior Division Girls Squat 190 lbs.
SoHi’s Michael Reutov , freshman-sophomore boys snatch record at
175 pounds
Kenai’s Rykker Riddall, freshman-sophomore boys clean record at 260
pounds.
SoHi’s Austin Schrader and Nikiski’s Ruben Sepeda also tied Kenai’s Jace
Baker’s 2015 snatch record of 205 pounds.
The last event of the night is the infamous Fight Gone Bad. In 2016, Kenai’s
Julianne Wilson and Nikiski senior Dylan Broussard were the overall
winners with 436 and 558 reps, respectively.
The event involves five stations — box jump, kettlebell swing (30
pounds for girls, 40 for boys), 35/45-pound push press, 20/30-pound
ball slam and wall balls.
Competitors spend a minute at each station before moving to the next,
taking a minute break after wall balls and moving through each station
three times.
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.