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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Building her perfect body, life
By AL EDWARDS
Sports
BIDDEFORD — On a warm June 6 day, Julia
Nyitray prepares for her deadlift as she wraps her
hands around the barbell, grips it, gets into position
and begins her ascent upward.
Her face is stoic as her eyes concentrate forward.
She grunts, then the barbell and her torso begin to
rise before she ends with every muscle in her toned
body rippling as she straightens her body and holds
the weight for a second.
Nyitray, unbeknownst to her, has just lifted 265
pounds.
“You just put 265 pounds on that? No. That was
250, right?” Nyitray asks her workout partner, Mike
Archibald.
He quickly replies with a smile. “No, that was 265.”
That deadlift just became Nyitray’s personal best,
besting her previous personal record of 255 pounds.
“I can’t believe I just lifted that,” she said. “Are you
sure that was 265?”
What was most impressive to Nyitray, as it was to
Archibald and trainer Scott Fleurant, isn’t the weight
that was just lifted, but the person behind the lift.
Nyitray, who lives in Old Orchard Beach and is
training for her first-ever body building and fitness
competition, is 5-foot-2 and 115 pounds. That means
she can lift more than double her body weight, which
most people can’t come close to doing.
For Nyitray, it’s just another goal hit while she
travels on her journey to next spring’s competition.
“I’m a pretty competitive person,” she said. “I
always push myself to get better.”
That philosophy in life started young for Nyitray,
who grew up in Farmingdale. In high school she
excelled at soccer while playing for Hall-Dale. She
also was a competitive figure skater.
“I always love competing and being active,” said
Nyitray, 24.
That continued into her college years when she
played soccer for Thomas College while majoring in
management. During that time, she started weight
lifting to help her get into better shape for the college
grind, and she was hooked.
Now, she either begins her day with a workout or
At left: Julia Nyitray, who lives in Old Orchard Beach, deadlifts
a personal best of 265 pounds at Impact Fitness in Biddeford
on June 6. Above: She works on her upper back while doing
pullups. Nyitray is preparing for her first ever bodybuilding
and fitness competition scheduled for April.
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Ask your dad about his favorite car
ByTIM STENTIFORD
Special to the JournalTribune
“My first car is still my favorite car,” says Ben Hoeper
of Dover, N.H., “a beautiful 1936 Buick convertible with
a rumble seat.”
At 95 years young, Hoeper remembers the vintage
Buick as a new car. In fact, he worked at General Motors
as a fresh-faced research engineer when the car was
being manufactured.
“The car had a rumble seat,” he recalled, as his son
Dick joked that his Dad probably used the fold up seat
in the rear to go fishing.
Born July 23, 1917, Hoeper attended the University
of Cincinnati in his hometown. To pay for school, he
enrolled in a five-year work-study program, which land-
ed him in Detroit working at General Motors.
“I was a research engineer working on the ninth
floor at GM’s world headquarters,” Hoeper said. “It was
an exciting time to work in the automotive business and
I was just getting started.”
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A 1936 Buick
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York County fans can rejoice in this Red Sox team
By CARL JOHNSON
Special to the JournalTribune
N
obody gave this Boston Red Sox team
much chance this year after last year’s
horrendous season, which followed the
total collapse of the team at the end of the 2011
season.
Most so-called experts had them finishing last
or near last in the American League East.
No one was particularly impressed when they
didn’t go after big name free agents in the off
season and instead signed players such as Shane
Victorino, Johnny Gomes, Mike Napoli, Mike
Carp, Stephen Drew and Ryan Dempster.
This week, the Red Sox began a road trip that
took them to Tampa Bay, where they won 2 of 3.
They then went to Baltimore. At the close of the
Rays series, they were in first place in the Eastern
Division of the American League, with a record
of 41-26, three games ahead of the second place
Yankees.
Sixty-seven games into the season, this team
– that was expected to be the doormat of the
American League – had scored more runs than
any other team in the league, had the best won-
loss percentage in the entire American League,
and was acting and playing like a serious con-
tender for the pennant.
What is it that transformed this team, made
up of basically the same players as last year, with
the addition of a few seasoned but older, experi-
enced players, into a winning ball club?
A lot has been said about chemistry, whatever
that is. I happen to agree with those people who
say great chemistry comes from winning games.
Show me the losing team with good chemistry
and I’ll show you a bunch of losers. The game is
always fun when you are winning and, if you’re a
competitor, is never fun when you’re losing.
Manager John Farrell has been given a lot of
credit for the change and probably rightly so. He
has brought a positive, professional, hard-work-
ing attitude to the team that has certainly con-
tributed to the change.
If you see the Sox on a daily basis like I do,
you have noticed the way this team seems to get
along. More of them seem to be sprouting beards
daily as some kind of badge, as announcers are
quick to point out, they are all up on the top step
of the dugout during the game, trying to gain an
advantage and they are positive about their out-
look when interviewed.
The bottom line is, they are having fun and
working so hard because they are winning, and
why are they winning? This should come as no
surprise to anyone. They are winning because
they are pitching and hitting better than the other
teams in the league. It doesn’t take a genius to
realize that the team that scores the most runs
and holds the opposition to the least runs, is
going to win the most games.
John Lester, Clay Buchholz and Felix Dubront
were 12-0 in April this year. Buchholz is 9-0 now
with a 1.71 earned run average, Lester is 6-3 with
a 4.12 ERA. Last year, through the same date,
Lester was 3-4 with a 4.57 ERA and Buchholz
was 7-2 but had a 5.38 ERA.
Those “older” players the Sox picked up are
not doing too badly either. Napoli has proven he
can play first base and had 27 RBIs in April to
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