NADIA STOWERS

I signed up for a Spartan run in my first year of lifting with some friends from the gym I was attending at the time. Once there, I was introduced to more racers who would be joining us where I met my, now coach, Jacob Finerty. He joked around asking me 'what I was strong for' and that question hit me harder than I thought because I didn't have an answer. I had only started working out to lose weight. I'd never played a sport and never lifted weights before so I didn't really have a direction or goals I was working on. I asked him what he did and he invited me to watch him compete in strongman. Seeing the grit, the drive, the competitiveness of it all - I knew then that I wanted to compete.