Thanks to everyone who participated in this years challenge! It was a huge success! Even if your name isn't listed below, you are a winner for striving toward positive change! We hope with each challenge you develop a better awareness of your own nutrition with tools to improve your eating habits long term.
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Thanks to Derek and Marci Smith, Asa Hoover, Kinsey Ashby and UW Kinesiology Department for all their work with pre/post assessments! We are so grateful for their involvement each year!
Thanks also to the 2018 Nutrition Challenge Sponsors:
Brown and Gold
All Terrain Sports
Sports Locker
Azteca Designs Boutique (Heidi Williams)
Big Hollow
134 participants joined the Nutrition Challenge, 99 completed post-test assessments.
Of the 99:
288 total pounds lost
70 total inches off waists - 39 inches off hips
52 pounds of total lean mass gained.
64% of all participants had both a reduction in body fat AND a gain in lean mass!
Top 6 winners in each category: will have their name on a new assault bike
Top Relative Body Fat % Loss:
Females:
1. Abby Filokski
2. Brooke Spicer (also most absolute % lost of females)
3. Shelly Fedderson
4. Erin Swingholm
5. Jamie Fisher
Males:
1. Tie! Aaron Murray / Frank Nelson (there will be a Frank Nelson/Aaron Murray Bike)
(Frank also lost most absolute BF % of males: 4.9%)
2. Cody Perkins
3. Nathan Haynes
4. Brandon Snelson
Most Lean Mass Gained:
Females:
1. Brooke Spicer
2. Abby Filokski
3. Wendy Warren
4. Kim Westbrook
5. Gwen Halfman
Males:
1. Eric Higbee
2. Eric Worden
3. Jacob Fenolia
4. Zac Fisher 5. Josh Dorrell
Most Weight Lost:
Females:
1. Amy Fenolia
2. Shelly Fedderson
3. Brooke Spicer **also the female with most lean mass gain!
4. Marcia Peterson 5. Erin Swingholm
Males:
1. Matt Goetz
2. Joseph Papineau
3. Cody Perkins
4. John Stark
5. Frank Nelson (also lost most absolute BF % of males: 4.9%)
Waist Circumference Loss:
Females:
1. tie! Amy Fenolia / Shelly Fedderson
2. Brooke Spicer
3. Ashli Tomisch
4. Jamie Fisher
Males:
1. Matt Goetz
2. John Stark
3. Joseph Papineau
4. Nathan Haynes
5. Cody Perkins
Others who scored high in many categories:
Yvette Haeberle
Ashli Tommisch
Marty Mckinney
Joseph Papinequ
Cody Perkins
Most Points Logged:
1. Brooke Spicer
2. Gwen Halfman
3. Pennie Weir
4. Kate Bieber
5. Chris Aneiros