Locals fare well at weightlifting championships

Four student/athletes from Huntington Beach returned home Monday

after a successful showing at the three-day National Weightlifting

Championships held in Shreveport, La.

Three Huntington Beach High athletes and one former Oiler entered the

competition, under the guidance of Oiler Strength Coach, Stephanie

Ciarelli.

The local foursome turned in some outstanding lifts during the

competition, which consisted of both the snatch and clean-and-jerk, and

was divided into two ages groups (17-20, and 16-and-under) and weight

classes within each age group division.

The competition is an international sport, and all weights were measured

in kilos.

Sophomore Dustin Guptill, competing in the 16-and-Under Division and at

62-kilos, finished second overall with a snatch of 85 kilos and a

clean-and-jerk of 105 kilos. Guptill’s performance qualified him for the

Junior Team, which will compete this summer at training camps held at the

U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

Huntington Beach senior Mark Corrales, a member of the Oiler football

team, had a snatch of 107 kilos and a clean-and-jerk of 127 kilos, good

for seventh-place overall in the 94-kilos weight class. Oiler freshman

Katelyn Ciarelli, a member of Huntington’s volleyball and track and field

teams, competed at 58-kilos (16-and-under) and finished fourth in the

division after recording a 42 1/2 snatch and a 60 clean-and-jerk.

Maryn Ciarelli, a former Oiler and older sister of Katelyn who now throws

discus and javelin at Golden West College, hit 65 kilos in the snatch and

85 kilos in the clean-and-jerk to place second overall in the 17-20 age

group (63-kilos).

Maryn Ciarelli and Katelyn Ciarelli are the daughters of Coach Stephanie

Ciarelli, and Tony Ciarelli, the head football coach at Huntington Beach

High.