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Monsters of the

Breezeway

You don’t need to be in athletics to be the biggest and strongest owl - By Ryan Cortes

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It isn’t clear what Occupy FAU wants, but they’re growing despite that.

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The UP breaks down Howard Schnellenberger’s potential replacements.

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FAU gets occupied News

Protest group keeps growing without club support or clear demands

By Regina Kaza

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ess than 20 students left their classrooms for the Free Speech Lawn on Oct. 5 to protest high tuition and faculty layoffs. On Oct. 13, over 50 student protesters marched down the Breezeway and almost got in trouble with FAU police for allegedly chanting too loud.

They didn’t clash with the cops, but they did get the attention of professors, students and local media.

These protestors are part of Occupy FAU, a group with no official demands and no support from student clubs. Despite that, since their Oct. 4 creation, they’ve gained 142 likes on Facebook, faculty support and media coverage from the Sun-Sentinel, CBS12, WPBF ABC 25, Orlando Sentinel, Huffington Post and Palm Beach Post.

Occupy FAU is inspired by Occupy Colleges, a website for college groups that support Occupy Wall Street, which protests economic inequality and corporate influence on government.

“It’s a way of showing solidarity and show that students, faculty and staff are part of the 99%,” said senior economics major Gonzalo Vizcardo, an Occupy FAU organizer.

“The 99% considered to be the working and middle class don’t get the same government privileges as the 1%”, said Vizcardo. “The 1% are paying less in taxes, get tax breaks and the banks take government’s money.”

Some professors support the movement.

Anthropology professor Mary Cameron saw the Oct. 4 protest on her way to get coffee. “I agree with the views expressed by the Occupy Wall Street protesters’ views, also expressed by some of our students.”

Social work professor Keith Platt supports the basic ideas of the Occupy movement and was pleased to see student interest in

Protestors marched from the Social Science building to the Rec Center, where Student Body President Ayden Maher was to give his annual State of the Student Body Address on Oct. 13 at 4:30 p.m. There was no clash between Occupy FAU and SG officials, and the protestors left before Maher began speaking. Photo taken by Charles Pratt

it. “I heard many student concerns and expressed my own views. I hope that the movement gets bigger so politicians will have to take notice.”

The response from student clubs has been less enthusiastic. Occupy FAU has been trying to get support from the FAU College Republicans (FAUCR) and FAU College Democrats (FAUCD), but neither group has fully committed.

“It would be nice if a group could bring that message here,” said FAUCD President Boris Bastidas. “I have heard about some occupy events in the area. As for Occupy FAU, I’m not sure if they’re serious or trying to build something. It’s cool that they’re trying to reach out to the area, but is it a real movement or a fad?”

According to Bastidas, Occupy FAU members invited the FAUCD to the Oct. 13 protest, but Bastidas didn’t go. “We haven’t supported them officially. We may work with them on events in the future, but at this time we’ve made no such commitment.”

FAUCR Secretary Jeff Arnold posted a video of Occupy FAU on Youtube.com with the comment, “Occupy movement shows how immature and mobbish they are with this display of thuggery and mischief.”

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After the video was posted, an Occupy FAU member spoke at an FAUCR meeting.

“While CR is not officially supporting the movement, some members expressed interest and asked a few questions and had a brief discussion,” said Vizcardo.

The UP tried contacting Arnold and the FAUCR multiple times, but neither have responded as of press time.

Bastidas was with Arnold when he recorded the group and responded, “My concern is that the Occupy movement has a strong and serious message, and I get worried that these kinds of incidents might make people think the movement is chaotic instead of being attracted to its most serious message.”

“We are all in this together. It’s about what affects us as students … We’re raising awareness about Occupy FAU and building power for this movement that has occupied colleges all over,” said Vizcardo.

Occupy FAU and other groups across the country inspired by Occupy Colleges has planned a protest during the first week of November. By then, Vizcardo said they will have a list of demands. As of press time, the date, time and location have yet to be determined.

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Getting less Greek FAU works to make its community of brothers and sisters look more professional

By Regina Kaza

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ow many Greeks are in the Office of Greek Life? None.

Actually, there hasn’t been an Office of Greek Life since summer 2010.

The Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life changed its name to be “more inclusive” and so students from Greece don’t come looking for information, according to office coordinator Ryan O’Rourke. He explained it’s a trend happening on a lot of campuses, and part of other changes the office is making. “It sounds more professional. It’s more inclusive and transparent about what we are,” O’Rourke said.

Some fraternities don’t use Greek letters.

For example, a new social fraternity made up of mostly social science and engineering students at FAU is simply called “Triangle.”

Another name change: “Rush” is now referred to as “recruitment.” O’Rourke believes that the word “rush” gives the idea that new members have to be chosen quickly. “Recruitment is having 365 days to get to know people. It’s not about just one week: It’s about spending a year making relationships,” he said.

Names are only one of the things changing, and even that takes a while. The office’s Facebook page is still called “Greek Life @ FAU” – Facebook won’t let them change it – and the university catalog won’t reflect the change until next year.

“Is it going to change a lot? Not really.

Poor choices that fraternities and sororities make aren’t going to change because of the name,” O’Rourke said. “But it may make

people take sororities and fraternities a step up and make change.” little more seriously.”

“We’re on a new slate, we’re working past Other image changes, like raising it,” Eric Fasone, president of Sigma Alpha GPA and handling discipline issues may Mu said. “It was a slap on the wrist for take longer. Two fraternities “violated sure. We took care of it, we did community University policies and procedures service for Habitat for Humanity, Relay for concerning alcoholic beverages,” according Life, Alzheimer’s, the blood drive, but those to Kristine Gobbo, assistant VP and press are things we would have done regardless.” secretary of media relations. Delta Tau Sigma Alpha Mu and Delta Tau Delta Delta president Kirk Moncol believes that were two of the many fraternities that during recruitment, it’s important to make had a growth in GPA, according to the sure “the potential new members represent community report. our values and will represent the chapter in Fasone mentioned that his fraternity the best possible manner in is currently conducting a every aspect.” membership review. This is The spring 2011 Fraternity where headquarters has one on & Sorority Life Community one interviews with members Report showed that Delta Tau and discusses their current Delta and Sigma Alpha Mu grades, GPA and whether or were “both charged and found not they pay their dues. After responsible for violations this review, Sigma Alpha related to alcohol.”

Mu was cut down to twelve “In February 2011, two members.

Greek organizations violated “Membership review is what got University policies and us out of it,” said Fasone. “When procedures concerning Ryan O’ Rourke we did it, good kids and many alcoholic beverages,” said Coordinator of Office of of my friends got kicked out, Gobbo. “Due to this violation, Fraternity & Sorority Life but you have to make sacrifices the organizations were placed to see growth.” Sigma Alpha on probation and there was a restriction Mu currently requires members to have a 2.5 imposed on alcohol at social events for an GPA, but will boost the requirement to a 2.6 in extended period of time.” spring 2012. A greater amount of sororities are Moncol said the brothers learned from the seeing a drop in GPAs. Sigma Gamma Rho’s experience. “One of our chapter’s core values Membership Intake, Kristina Hall-Michel, is accountability. We were not accountable for mentioned that Sigma Gamma Rho’s former our actions that night as a chapter. It showed our chapter members all graduated in 2006. chapter it is not the duty of one brother to stop “My sorority sisters and I have spent long hours a bad situation. Every brother has the ability to establishing ourselves on campus and letting the

student body know what our sorority represents and how we differ from others,” said Kristina Hall-Michel. “It can be difficult to mange your time between this, classes, and our personal lives.” They are working to avoid running into this issue again by setting up a study log in the library, study hall and requiring minimum study hours.

Alpha Delta Pi, on the other hand, boosted their GPA from the past semester.

According to their president, Lauren Reidy, they expect each member to show commitment through academic performance, classroom attendance and accomplishment.

“We have sisters who volunteer their time to hold study groups throughout the week for other sisters to attend. We also have a Library Fairy who will randomly walk around the library handing treats to sisters who are studying!”

Currently, the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life does not offer tutoring to its members. O’Rourke said, “We are trying to provide resources at the office, but we are not academic experts. We would like for members to use the resources available by the university.”

Reidy advises fraternities and sororities who are struggling academically to reach out to their organizations’ alumnae volunteers. “I think it’s also important to set high standards academically as you work to recruit new members. Talking to members on a more personal level as to why they struggled in a specific class or semester can also help them realize that you do care about their academics and future.”

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Owls in the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life, located in room 218 of the Student Union, display the Greek letters of fraternities and sororities around campus. Photo by Charles Pratt

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With FAU’s first and only football coach set to retire, his replacement looms

By Zack Duarte ccording to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, FAU plans on reaching out to two candidates since football coach Howard Schnellenberger announced he would retire at the end of the season: Mike Leach and Randy Shannon. Both are big names — with baggage.

After opening the season 0-6, every disappointing loss has added to the noise and intrigue about who his replacement will be.

“Coach Schnellenberger and his disciples are all that FAU has known,” said the voice of FAU football, Ken LaVicka. “A name sells itself. Name recognition is important to FAU.” Leach was the coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders from 2000 to 2009. For each of his ten seasons with the school, he finished with a winning record and the Red Raiders quickly became known for a high scoring offense year in and year out.

However, he left the school amid a great deal of controversy. One of Leach’s players, Adam James, claimed that Leach ordered him to stand in a darkened garage near the Raiders’ practice facility after James had suffered a concussion. Leach claimed he only instructed James to get out of the light and did not follow up on where he was sent.

The incident led to Leach’s subsequent firing and he has since found himself on the outside of coaching circles in the NCAA. Leach finished his tenure at Texas Tech with an 84-43 record, going 5-4 in bowl games.

Shannon is the former coach for the Univeristy of Miami.

He took over at UM in 2007, under heavy pressure to return the program to championship form.

Shannon’s first season saw him finish 5-7 and he failed to make a bowl game, however his 2008 recruiting class was ranked fifth in the country, according to Rivals.com. Shannon never lived up to expectations and was fired in 2010 after going just 28-22 in four years with the Hurricanes, and 0-2 in bowls games before being let go.

Who is the man for the job?

If FAU wants to make a splash, then Mike Leach is the man

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for the job.

Nobody else in college football wants this loose cannon on their sidelines, and he would fit perfectly with FAU, a program in the early stages of development.

Texas Tech was known for getting beat every year by other Big 12 powerhouses like Texas and Oklahoma. Leach was able to recruit successfully and turn the tables.

Now, Leach could be coaching in what is nationally known as the college recruiting mecca: Florida.

Leach’s other commodity is his ability to put a show on the field for fans. FAU’s offense currently ranks in the bottom 10 for almost all offensive categories. Leach developed what was known as the “Air Raid Offense” and broke several NCAA passing records.

“Mike Leach is one of the most innovative offensive minds in college football,” said Jorge Sedano, the morning drive host on 790 The Ticket. “He is radioactive, but he has maintained his innocence about the Adam James situation and he will sell tickets right away.”

Sedano also maintains that FAU fans must trust athletic director Craig Angelos to make the right decision.

“Fans will need to place their trust in Craig Angelos,” Sedano said.

“The stadium will only be a novelty for a short time. Fans will need to be level-headed and understand the circumstances surrounding the program.”

“If I were making the hire, though, it would have to be [Mike] Leach.”

Leach would bring excitement to the Owls’ sideline and put fans in the seats. He would bring a sense of hope to a program that is of its lowest in its existence.

Randy Shannon is a name all too familiar to South Florida football. He has been coaching at the collegiate level since 1991 and has deep ties to the Florida community.

Recruiting is Shannon’s strength and FAU’s weak spot this year. “[Randy] Shannon is a recognizable name and he may not fill the stadium like Leach would, but Shannon would certainly fill out the roster with talent that in other cases would go to similar Florida schools like FIU and UCF,” said LaVicka.

Shannon would have less pressure to succeed than he did at UM. There, he was taking over a program desperate to regain national success. FAU is desperate for any success.

If Shannon can somehow build FAU into a team mentioned

“The stadium will only be a novelty for a short time.

Fans will need to be levelheaded and understand the circumstances surrounding the program,”

- Jorge Sedano, 790 AM The Ticket radio host

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FAU’s first and only fooball coach Howard Schnellenberger announced he would retire following this season. Photo by Lorenzo Ponce de Leon

in conversations about Florida’s powerhouse football teams, he could end up creating his own legacy, much like Schnellenberger has done.

For a school that has had a big name attached to its bigger athletic programs (i.e. Schnellenberger for football, Mike Jarvis for basketball), it would make sense to continue the trend and bring back hope for FAU football’s fans and future.

Look for Craig Angelos to try to reel in the biggest name available by landing Mike Leach as the next coach for FAU’s football program.

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Features CEO of MLG, Sundance DiGiovanni, gave a special welcome to the fans in Orlando before the competitions started.

A pro gamer’s world

Photo courtesy of MLG

Major League Gaming comes to Orlando in the 2011 season

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Starcraft 2 player, Idra, was a fan favorite. Despite not making it to the grand finale, his match against Boxer was one of the most popular matches all weekend, drawing a crowd that overflowed the stage. Photo courtesy of MLG

Halo Reach team Instinct made a push for the finals, but was defeated by team Dynasty 3-1 in the semifinals. Photo by Mark Gibson

Dynasty defeated Infamous in the grand finale of Halo Reach and took home $20,000. Photo by Mark Gibson

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tarcraft 2 gamer, Jang Min Chul, stood in front of a packed crowd of about a thousand people as a translator helped him with a Web TV interview. Better known as “MC,” Min Chul was minutes away from playing the grand finale against his rival and good friend Huk. Before the match began, Min Chul talked softly in Korean when asked if he had any final words for his opponent. His translator laughed and silently stared at the microphone before translating Min Chul’s words. “I want the trophy … so I kill you!”

The crowd erupted with cheers, applause and laughter. The grand finale then began.

Throughout the three day competition in Orlando, competitors from around the globe came to compete in Starcraft 2, Halo Reach and Call of Duty (COD): Black Ops. Fans wore Halo Reach team shirts and hats, while the shocking number of Starcraft 2 fans walked around with posters of their favorite players and chanted their gamertags throughout the convention center.

The energy in the room was so great one spectator even decided to propose to his girlfriend in the middle of the competition floor.

“It just felt like the right time,” he said in an interview with MLG TV. The closer each competition got to the finals, the more crowded the venue became. The COD: Black Ops stage did not seem to draw as big of a crowd as the others — until the grand finale when team OpTIC Gaming took home the Orlando trophy and $10,000.

The Halo Reach stage saw some intense battles, especially in the grand finale where team Dynasty defeated the underdog, team Infamous, in a close

match. Dynasty took home $20,000.

“I guess we’re going to Disney World,” said a team member from Dynasty when asked what he was going to do with the money.

The most popular stage the entire weekend, however, was Starcraft 2. Fans filled the seats and even sat on the cold, hard, concrete floor of the convention center in order to get a glimpse of their favorite gamers playing. Kids and adults were even getting autographs after matches.

Idra and Boxer were big crowd favorites. Idra’s name was chanted loudly by the audience every time he finished a match. But it was Huk vs MC, the two good friends, that made it to the grand finale. Huk and MC put on quite a show for the crowd, as they typed to each other in the game chat window — something most people weren’t doing.

Huk joked about MC’s threat to kill him, and MC respond back in broken English, which added to the humor.

Despite MC’s energy and effort, Huk easily defeated him in two rounds. He made MLG history by becoming the first non-South Korean to take home the trophy and $5,000.

After the match, Huk and MC embraced, and then Huk turned to the ecstatic crowd and made a heart shape with his hands.

“I love you guys,” he said to the audience. “And thank you.”

The 2011 MLG season will conclude at the championship in Providence, Rhode Island during Nov. 18-20. For complete brackets of all the three game competitions, or replays of the matches, visit www.majorleaguegaming.com.

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(From Left to Right) Anthony Napolitano, Davis Diley, Shamir St. Prix and Matt Vaccarella make up Team Swole. Combined, they take in nearly 900 grams of protein per day, which is the equivalent of over 21 6-ounce steaks.

Photo by Charles Pratt

Monsters of the

by Ryan Cortes

Meet Team Swole — four FAU students living the gym life and winning competitions without being involved in athletics

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our FAU students spend hours and hours in the gym. None of them are in athletics, they say they’ve never taken steroids and they’ve all had girlfriends break up with them, frustrated by how consumed they were with the gym.

They live the life of bicep curls and protein shakes.

They have more cutoff T-shirts and empty protein containers than they do Dockers and soda cans.

They call themselves “Team Swole.” And they’re all crazy — the good kind, obviously.

Davis Diley, the winner of a weight lifting

competition called StrongOwl, has a back so big he crushes chairs when he leans back.

Shamir St. Prix, better known as “Fox,” spends $100 a week on protein.

Anthony Napolitano never uses both hands to carry his groceries — one’s more than enough.

Matt Vaccarella hates trying to check his blood pressure at Publix. His arm doesn’t even fit in the sleeve.

Together, they lift and dedicate their lives to being bigger, faster, stronger. Almost all of their friends are gym rats.

They don’t have time for much else. How can they, when they have to drink four protein shakes a day?

They also say you don’t have to be an athlete to be the baddest on campus. And they don’t merely dislike that notion — they hate it.

“That’s bullshit,” said St. Prix. “Most of us are bench pressing more than them. There’s athletic muscle and physically sure muscle.We’ve got physically sure muscle.

All we do all day is lift.”

The UP talked to each of them to see what it takes to be on Team Swole.

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continued from page 12 FAU’s strongest man wakes up every morning at 6:00 a.m. because he needs to eat — then he goes back to sleep.

“I’ve always got a protein shake by my bed,” he said. “Every two hours I make sure I have some form of protein going into my body.”

Davis Diley isn’t kidding. He consumes 300 grams of protein per day. The ADA recommends you take in one gram of protein per pound of body weight for the average person. Diley also has a pound of chicken, a pound of steak and a pound of pasta. Every day.

It’s part of the reason he won StrongOwl, a weight lifting competition hosted on campus — it separates the big and strong from the weak and meek.

He didn’t have the highest bench press at the competition. That belongs to Anthony Napolitano who benches 470 pounds. He also wasn’t the biggest “looking” guy there. That belongs to Shamir “Fox” St. Prix who has so much definition he’s been jokingly accused by Matt Vaccarella of “filling up his muscles like Spongebob.”

Yet he won anyway, because the competition is geared toward brute strength. It’s not about lifting a barbell vertically using correct technique, it’s about lifting a random boulder that could weigh hundreds of pounds. Diley gets

to call himself the Strongest Owl. He attributes the victory to what he calls “static strength” and “functional strength.”

The first is the kind of strength you would use to move a standstill object, Davis Diley, the winner of StrongOwl, like a rock. The goes to the gym four days a week for second is the kind three hours per day. Photos by Charles Pratt of strength you use for everyday activities.

Gym rats tend to ask Diley’s friend Chad Dolan, “What’s he taking?” They whisper guesses among themselves, watching him lift. “[Dolan] was telling me at least a few times a week almost every day, people ask him ‘what did Davis get on this summer?,’” Diley said.

It never angered him. He understood.

“I think everybody has thought about it,” Diley said about using steroids. “At the gym here, people talk about it openly, you just hear people talking about who does it and who doesn’t. I’m sure people think that I do, but to my buddies it’s no secret that I don’t.”

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Protein intake: 165 grams/day Caloric intake: 5,000-6,000 calories/day

“I lift weights because I want to be America’s strongest man.”

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Exercise Science Deadlifts: 600 lbs Squats: 500 lbs Bench press: 360 lbs Bicep size: 18”

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Shamir St. Prix can’t stay away from the gym.

“My schedule is about 15 hours a week in the gym,” he said. “15 fucking hours. That’s a job, bro.”

It’s just another Thursday at FAU’s gym, and as usual, St. Prix is there.

“Fox,” as he’s more commonly known, asked me to come help him workout his abs in the middle of the gym. He lies down and gets ready to do situps. Then he stops.

“Go grab me that 10 pound ball,” he says.

I’m not really sure why he wants it, but I oblige. Then he starts doing situps and asks me toslam the ball into his stomach after each one.

“Harder!” he screams after each one.

Finally, he’s done. “That’s how you get abs, bro,” he says before walking away, his cutoff T-shirt showing off his hard work.

“That’s all I have is cutoff shirts,” St. Prix said. “I’m going to stop wearing them, though, because the girls keep distracting me. They can see everything when I wear them.”

Deadlifts: 510 lbs Squat: 485 lbs Bench press: 405 lbs Bicep size: 17”

Shamir St. Prix spends 15 A few weeks a week in the gym, though ago he went to better known as Fox. the doctor for a check-up. The nurse went to check his blood pressure, but she couldn’t.

“She put two on me and it still couldn’t fit on my bicep,” he said.

“She was like ‘oh my god.’”

It’s the kind of problem he runs into frequently. He’s had to raise his steering wheel as high as it can go because his legs don’t fit otherwise. He also shops for new clothes frequently because he’s constantly outgrowing them.

“It happens to me all the time,” St. Prix said. “That’s what happens when you’re growing.

I’ve got to buy new clothes every two months.”

(below) The loudest of the four members, Vaccarella, once mocked a gym-goer, according to Ed Haney, 23, exercise science major, who couldn’t put his weights back on the rack. “ ‘I’ll show you how to do it, kid.’ Bam and he just put them back.”

t pissed or ng, I get red hat’s what knows me by.”

Of the four Team Swole members, Matt Vaccarella is the shortest, weighs the least, bench presses the least and has the smallest biceps.

And he’s the most confident of the bunch.

“Everybody looks up to me,” he said smiling. “I’m like the official motivator of the gym. That’s why everyone knows me.”

Whenever Vaccarella is in the gym, he’s yelling or motivating someone … unless he wants a machine that someone else is using.

“Most of the time I let them do it the wrong way so they get hurt and they move away from the machine, so I can use it,” he said. “But sometimes, if it’s a cute girl, I’ll spot her and show her the right way and then out of nowhere, the next thing she tells me, she’s got a boyfriend when I didn’t even ask her that shit. I’m just trying to workout.”

He once even created a Jersey Shore audition tape. He showed how he admires

himself in the mirror each morning before going to the gym.

“I watch it now and I think I want to punch that kid because he’s so cocky,” he said.

When he’s working out, he can sometimes get a little Jersey Shoreesque, especially when someone wants his weights.

“It’s always annoying and someone walks over and they’re like ‘are you using that?’” Vaccarella said. “And I’m like, are you serious? I just want to slap them.”

He calls himself DJ Nuggets, because he has a little muscle in his shoulder that “looks like a nugget.” St. Prix refers to him instead as DJ Shrimp, mocking his size.

Yet, to Vaccarella, he is the strongest … if he’s at the gym at the right time.

“My favorite part of the day is going to the gym and getting pumped up. And if I get there early enough, I’m the strongest kid in the gym cause not everyone is there yet!”

“Everybody looks up to me. [...] I’m like the official motivator of the gym.”

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Height: 5’7” Weight: 164 lbs Protein intake: 200 grams/day Caloric intake: 3,000 calories/day

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“Just ‘cause you can’t get to where I’m at doesn’t mean I cheated to get there.”

Anthony Napolitano 22 Senior

Criminal Justice

Height: 5’10” Weight: 215 lbs Protein intake: 200 grams/day Caloric intake: 4,000 calories/day

Deadlifts: 600 lbs Squat: 600 lbs Bench press: 470 lbs Bicep size: 17.25”

Anthony Napolitano spends a great deal of time around big, strong people. He comes to the gym five days a week. He used to play football.

His dad was a professional bodybuilder. And yet, he’s never met anyone his age who can bench press as much as his 470 pounds.

When he was in high school, Napolitano broke the school record for deadlifts — 585 pounds.

That’s also when the rumors started.

“I was in 10th grade and I [bench pressed] 225 for four reps,” Napolitano said. “And the next day I came in and I got 250 and that’s when it started.” Unlike the others, he takes offense to people saying he’s on steroids.

“I feel like, you can’t get on my level, so you have to say I cheated,” he said. “Just ‘cause you can’t get to where I’m at doesn’t mean I cheated to get there.”

Napolitano started doing his own workouts in high school, when the football team regiment just wasn’t enough. He wanted to sculpt himself into a bodybuilder rather than an athlete.

“When I switched that up, that’s when I really started seeing strength and size gains,” Napolitano said. “I like shorter, more intense workouts. Just boom. Hit it, hit it, hit it. Your body’s ready to explode when you do it that way.”

The new workout regiment helped Napolitano bench press 225 pounds 38 times in a row.

Every year before the NFL draft, all the players are asked to do certain workouts like 40 yard

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Deadlifts: 225 lbs Squats: 365 lbs Bench press: 265 lbs Bicep size: 14.5”

sprints and vertical jumps. They’re also asked to bench press 225 pounds to see how many times they can do it. Last year, only two players in the entire pool bench pressed that weight 38 times or more.

“I don’t need to say anything, people say it for me,” Napolitano said about his track record. “I’ll walk in and they’re like ‘there’s that kid.’”

That “kid” believes he’s the strongest kid at FAU, despite finishing second in StrongOwl to Diley.

“Weights-wise? It’s me. There’s no doubt.”

A former football player, Anthony Napolitano saw his biggest strength gains when he quit football and used his own workout schedule, becoming more of a bodybuilder than an athlete.

To learn more about StrongOwl, visit the Henderson Fields on campus every Saturday from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m., when strongman practice is held.

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