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Article: SPOTLIGHT: WEIGHT TRAINING; Pump you up; Female athletes benefit from weight lifting just as much as males.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- July 29, 2009
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Byline: JIM PAULSEN; STAFF WRITER
The sounds emanating from the well-stocked weight room at Wayzata High School are familiar -- grunts of exertion, clanking of weights, voices of encouragement.
But step inside, look around and one thing becomes obvious: This is not your father's weight room.
While football players -- in this case, 50 or so incoming freshman -- are dedicating themselves to the conditioning credo of "bigger, stronger, faster," it's the people in charge of the room on this warm Thursday morning that stand out. Three women, all of whom graduated from Wayzata in the past three years, are running the show while weight-room ...