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Send RUPL to Worlds in Belarus!

The Rutgers Powerlifting Club was founded and officially approved by the University on February 2nd 2016 thanks to the hard work of the two co-presidents and co-founders of the club, Kevin Hejnas and Dallas Bey.

Shortly after being established as a club at Rutgers, the Rutgers Powerlifting Club sent Andrew Tabedzki, Christopher Natividad, Contessa Lai, Dallas Bey, Danielle Lewis, David Lee, Emily Ho, Emireth Gonzales, Jeremy Rodriguez, Kevin Hejnas, MaryKate Innace, Nicole Yu, Noel Tuvera and Peter Hoang to compete in the 2016 USA Powerlifting Collegiate National Championships in Providence, Rhode Island. The team went on to take two gold medals won by Peter Hoang and Nicole Yu, along with three second placers, Emily Ho, Contessa Lai, and Noel Tuvera with Dallas Bey taking third and Danielle Lewis taking fourth in their respective weight classes. Overall, Rutgers ended up taking 3rd place in the Nation in both the Men’s Raw and Women’s Raw categories. All while securing the overall highest point total out of all collegiate teams in the raw category.

On April 23rd 2016, the Rutgers Men’s team was officially invited to represent the U.S.A, with the women’s invitation soon following on April 26th 2016, in the first ever IPF University Powerlifting World Cup in Minsk, Belarus. Rutgers University accepted both of their invitations on April 28th 2016, joining Ohio State University, Northeastern University, University of Texas at Austin, and Army.  And being the only University that will be sending both their Men’s and Women’s teams.

As it is our first semester as a team, RUPL is ineligible for emergency funding from the university. Therefore, RUPL will not be able to go and compete at the highest level of competition within the beloved sport of powerlifting without your support.
The exact costs and breakdown of the team's fees estimate to be:
Team fees: $1800
Hotel fees: $1750
Flight fees: $11,300
Uniforms: $ 560
Insurance: $100
Visas: $1600
Food: $1350
Miscellaneous/Unforeseen fees: $2000
Total: $20,460
5% GoFundMe Fee: $1000

Estimated Total: $21,500 (However, after t-shirt sales and other fundraising we are requesting $20,000)

RUPL Women's
47kg: Nicole Yu
47kg: Emily Ho
52kg: Contessa Lai
72kg: MaryKate Innace

RUPL Men's
66kg: Noel Tuvera
66kg: Dallas Bey
74kg: Peter Hoang
74kg: Jeremy Rodriguez
93kg: Kevin Hejnas
120kg: David Lee

Coach Elish Le

If we fall short on our extremely ambitious goal then we will be taking as many of our athletes as possible with the money raised. Athletes will be selected by their liklihood to score at this world level meet (based mainly off of placings at Nationals and wilks score).

Again, thank you all!!!


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Kevin Hejnas
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Piscataway, NJ

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