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Juan: How was your first show and Juan: It definitely sounds like that day was a
what were some of the most blast! What are some of the life lessons you
memorable things about it? cherish most that the gym has taught you?
Jamie: My first show was everything Jamie: The gym has been my go to for lots of
that I had hoped for. It was in my different reasons. I’m happy to have met a lot of
home town, a place I was comfortable people and made friendships through the gym
with and I had many people there to with people that have the same interests as me. It
support me. During the prep I made a has taught me that self-discipline is something
friend my same age that would also be that can make you stronger; mentally and
competing, she would even be in my physically.
class. The gym is somewhere that I have always gone to
I was lucky to have a friend and feel good. I’ve always been about challenging
someone that I had worked with myself or to be better and persevere through any
leading up to this day. She and I did obstacle that I may face.
everything together that day; we were
backstage, taking pictures and
enjoying a meal in-between pre-
judging and finals. I fell in love with
the feeling of being on stage and how
it made me feel knowing all my hard
work had paid off. I ended up placing
first in both the novice class and class
B as well as winning the Spotlight
Award for best
presentation/confidence on stage. I
can not explain how happy I was to
win this award as I personally didn't
feel that confident (from being so
nervous). It was personally a real life
dream come true as I never thought
this would be the end result.