The Roanoker - September / October 2019 - 16

Meet One of the
Strongest Women
in the World

O

RDINARILY, SHE IS A USPS mail
carrier, but at times this 26-year-old
morphs into a power-welding superwoman
who lifts massive weights with relative ease. No,
Shanice Hairston of Salem doesn't don a cape and
fight supervillains, but she does put on athletic gear
and try to vanquish women who are just as strong
as she.
Hairston, a 2014 Virginia Tech graduate, is
an amateur athlete in the sport of strongman
(strongwoman). Strongman is a sport in which
athletes compete in a display of raw strength.
Besides lifting traditional barbells, the athletes also
lift massive stones, race with heavy weights slung
over their backs - and at times pull 10,000 pound
trucks for distance. The sport is scored by maximum
repetitions, shortest time, longest distance or
maximum weight lifted.
It's all about welding power. "'No matter where you
come from, your socioeconomic background, your class,
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Shanice Hairston

no matter how you identify. Strength sports is about
how well you do,'" said Hairston in a previous interview.
And in the three years she has been competing,
she has welded power well, coming in second earlier
this year in the amateur heavy-weight division of the
prestigious Arnold International Strongman Classic.
Besides taking first place in regional competitions,
she also has put together a string of three top four
finishes in national and international events. Her
accomplishments have been achieved within a period
that normally takes athletes many years to accomplish,
one strongman official told her last year, she recalled.
Hairston said she plans to compete in the North
American National in September at West Palm
Beach, Florida. As an amateur, she is not paid to
participate. She depends on public donations to fund
her travel, food, lodging and registration expenses. If
you are interested in supporting Hairston, please send
tax-deductible donations via PayPal to snh50@vt.edu.
-DOUG HAIRSTON

TheRoanoker.com

FIREBREATHER MEDIA

Shanice Hairston of Salem
is achieving national and
international goals as an amateur
strong (wo)man athlete.



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