Southern Muscle Plus

ON THE COVER: 2003 NPC South Carolina State Champions, standing from left to right: Tessa King, Fitness; Thomas Kelly, Bodybuilding; Jeannie Skinner, Figure; Kneeling, Pam Shealy, Bodybuilding. (Cover Photo by Pat Collard) (Cover Design by John Stevens)	July 2003
	2003 NPC Central Florida District Championships 2003 NPC South Carolina State 2003 NPC Body Max Classic 2003 NPC Eastern Seaboard More articles are available only in the printed magazine. Pick up a copy at your favorite gym, health club, fitness center or health food store; or to be sure of getting a copy each month, subscriptions are available.

2003 NPC Central Florida District Championships

..... The 2003 NPC Central Florida District Bodybuilding, Fitness & Figure Championships, under the promotion of Son and Kirsten Tran, was held on Saturday May 17th at the Bayshore High school in Bradenton, FL with a total of 46 athletes.
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..... Alan Stein, 41, of Bradenton, took the lightweight class with a unanimous decision and moved into the finals to take the overall win.
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..... Kathleen Schloss, 33, from New Port Ritchey, FL took the women’s lightweight win with a unanimous decision and after the final comparisons and posedown was the choice of the judges for the overall title.
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..... The Fitness Division had two competitors and fifteen-year-old Jessika Coelho made her contest debut by taking the overall title.
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..... The Figure Division was well represented with six entrants and twenty-six-year old Kim Swatts from Sarasota took the title.

(Photo by Iaje Photography)

2003 NPC Central Florida District Champions, from left to right: Jessika Coelho, Fitness; Kathleen Schloss and Alan Stein, Bodybuilding; and Kim Swatts, Figure.

2003 NPC South Carolina State

..... The 2003 NPC South Carolina State Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure Championships were held on May 31 at the Koger Center For The Performing Arts in Columbia under the promotion of South Carolina State Chairman Ken Taylor.
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..... Thirty-six-year-old Thomas Kelly of Leesville took the middleweight class win over 6 other athletes and moved into the final comparisons and posedown to take the overall win.
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..... Pam Shealy, 34, of Lexington took the middleweight class by a unanimous decision and after the final comparisons was the pick of the judges for the overall win.
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..... The Fitness Division was divided into two height classes and it was Tessa King, 27, of Mt. Pleasant dominating all three rounds of competition to take the short class win and after the final comparisons was the pick of the judges for the overall title.
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..... The Figure Division was divided into three height classes and Jeannie Skinner, 23, of Columbia took all first place votes in both rounds of competition to take the tall class win.
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..... Jeannie moved into the finals and was the choice of the judges for the overall title.

(Photo by Pat Collard)

2003 NPC South Carolina State Champions, from left to right: Tessa King, Fitness; Pam Shealy and Thomas Kelly, Bodybuilding; and Jeannie Skinner, Figure.

2003 NPC Body Max Classic

..... The 2003 NPC 3rd Annual Body Max Classic Bodybuilding and Figure Championships were held on May 24 at the Central Florida Community College Auditorium in Ocala under the promotion of Scott Kalb.
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..... Thirty-five-year-old Mike Horan of Gainesville dominated the lightheavyweight class with all first place votes for the class win then moved into the finals to take the overall title by a unanimous decision.
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..... Joany Babilonia, 25, of Altamonte Springs was making her first contest appearance and took the heavyweight class win by a unanimous decision. Joany then moved into the final comparisons and took the overall title by taking all first place votes from the judges.
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..... The Figure Division was divided into two height classes and twenty-six-year-old Alanah Copeland of Land O’Lakes took the majority of first place votes in both rounds of competition to take the tall class win.
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..... Alanah moved into the finals to take the overall win by a unanimous decision.

(Photo by Iaje Photography)

2003 NPC Body Max Classic Champions Joany Babilonia and Mike Horan.

2003 NPC Eastern Seaboard

..... The 2003 NPC Eastern Seaboard, a national qualifier, was held on May 10 at the Cobb County Civic Center under the promotion of Georgia State Chairman Ty Felder.
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..... Thirty-two-year-old Wendell Floyd of Marietta, GA took the majority of the judges votes for the lightheavyweight class win and moved into the final comparisons and pose down to capture the overall title.
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..... Amy Neal of Atlanta, GA was unopposed in the middleweight class and was the pick of the judges for the women’s overall.
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..... The Figure Division was divided into two height classes and Tammy Jolly, 36, of Charlotte, NC captured the short class title with a majority of the judges first place votes. Tammy moved into the final comparisons and was the pick of the judges for the overall win.

Wendell Floyd
lightheavyweight winner
open overall champion

Amy Neal
middleweight winner
open overall champion

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