2025 Illinois State Championships Announced
2025 Illinois WSO Championships will be held May 3-4 2025 at West Aurora High School, Aurora IL. Stay tuned for more information
2024 Illinois WSO Championship Pictues Available!
The 2024 Illinois WSO Championship picture are now available for anyone to download for FREE. See the Photo Galleries menu up top for this years and previous years pitures. Enjoy!
2024 Illinois State Records Updated!
How to your lifts compare? The Illinois State Records have been updted with the results form the 2024 Illinois WSO Championship. Records can be found by crolling down on the main page.
2024 Illinois State WSO Championships Live Stream
We will Live Stream the competition on the @illinois_weightlifting Instagram page.
See the 24ILST Live Stream page for details.
Congratulations to the 2024 Coaching Scholarship Winners!
Congratulations to the Illinois Coaches who were selected to receive the 2024 IL WSO Coaching Development Scholarships.
BIPOC Scholarships
Kalvin Agueta
Sydney Chavez
Marcos Rodriguez
Ashley Avila
Womens Scholarships
Riley Stefan
Breanna McNally
Kelly Simpson
Emily Cornwell
2024 Illinios WSO Championship Entries are OPEN!
Looking to participate in the biggest event in 2024 Illinois weightlifting … sign up to compete! Sign Up Here!
South Loop Strength and Conditioning is ready to welcome The State Championship back to Chicago!
This will be a two-day meet with a 130 person cap. There will be 5 sessions each day. All weight classes and all ages are welcome to participate. Illinois WSO will sponsor youth lifters and no fee will be required. The meet entry fee is $85 for all open and masters athletes. We will honor refunds for cancellations made in advance, all cancellations 21 days (3 weeks) from the meet will not be refunded.
Medals will be given to Open athletes per IWF protocol, for master’s age groups by SMHF and
for Youth / Junior athletes by Sinclair.
The Illinois State Championship Best Lifter Award will be named “The Clyde Emrich Illinois
State Championship Best Lifter Award” to honor Clyde Emrich – the first Weightlifting
Olympian from the state of Illinois and a pillar in the weightlifting communities.
The start list will be sent out two weeks in advance. Sessions will be organized by weight class.
The deadline for changing your weight class or entry total is two weeks before the meet. We will not make last-minute changes. The finalized start list will be sent out two weeks before the meet. If you don’t make weight, you may still lift but you will not be eligible to medal or qualify for other meets in your declared weight class.
Additional details will be emailed to you closer to the date of the competition. Please feel free to reach out to Taylor Perry, or Kris Mackewicz regarding any questions you may have.
See you soon!
2024 Illinois State Championships Announced
Welcome to the new site.
State will be hosted this year by @southloopsc @taytayfitness59 @krismack744. Registration will open January 22nd, the meet date is April 27th,28th. 2 day meet, 130 person cap. More details will be released soon! Registration will be on www.usaweightlifting.org. In the mean time, please feel free to contact the meet directors if you have any questions.
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taylor@southloopsc.com
kris@southloopsc.com
Introducing the new and improved website.
Welcome to the new site.
It took a while, but we finally have a replcement for the USAW provided website that we used previously. Look around and let us know how you like the new site. FInd a typo, let us know. Love the new site, let us know. Have an idea what we could add to the site, let us know!