The Athletes
Keith Davis
Keith Davis is a former college and professional football player who has appeared on ESPN, ABC, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated. He is also an entrepreneur, educator and speaker, having spoken in over 9,000 schools, universities, and corporations. For numerous years Keith has travelled and presented in over 51 countries, including Australia, India, Japan, England, Germany, Russia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Egypt, Niger, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Keith graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Business Finance, during which he held the football team’s highest grade point average. While playing football at USC, Keith was the team's leading tackler and an All-Conference player. He was also selected to the All-American Strength Team, and played in one of college football's biggest and most exciting games, The Rose Bowl. He has won 2 Championship Rings. After college, Keith signed his professional football contract with the New York Giants. Keith was one of the strongest players in the nation. He stands 6' feet 1" inch tall, weighs 290 pounds, and bench presses over 515 pounds and leg presses 1800 pounds.
How can a person with four documented learning disabilities, the lowest GPA in his high school class, and the inability to complete a sentence rise to become an NFL Football Pro, CEO of his own company, and an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker?
Shawn was born and raised by a single mother on the south side of Columbus, Ohio along with his 5 siblings. Early on, Shawn was different. He was bigger than most kids, and he was diagnosed in grade school with several disabilities, including dyslexia and a very debilitating stutter. Teachers were tough on Shawn and told him he was not “college material” because he had learning challenges. However, Shawn was determined to fit in. He discovered football and began playing in high school. At the end of his senior year, his coach contacted a friend who was the coach at North Iowa Community College and told him that Shawn might be a good fit for the college’s football team. This is where the dream really began…
Shawn knew that this was an opportunity of a life time. His mom loaded up the station wagon, dropped him off in Iowa and said, “Here you go Baby…you either sink or swim.” Shawn swam. He began to envision himself playing in the NFL. He placed 3 letters above his headboard in his dormitory --N.F.L.-- so that he would remember why he was there. Shawn did well and was recruited by Indiana University to play ball. After graduating from Indiana University, he was drafted to the NFL, and his vision became a reality. Shawn was on the roster of several NFL teams, blocking for two Heisman trophy candidate and two all-pro running backs. He is living proof that a set-back is a set up for a comeback.
Shawn Harper
On Sundays, when the television screen would fill up with big men, playing football and looking like true heroes, Devin Wyman made a promise to himself that he would be in their place someday, beamed from an NFL stadium back into the family living room in East Palo Alto. Many adolescent males do the same, but Wyman's vow had weight, literally, behind it.
In his teens, he devoured opponents in football and wrestling. He reached 6 feet, 7 inches. He drove scale needles in mad circles, to 300 pounds and beyond. He felt justified in promising that he would soon be on television. But while Wyman's body grew in the right direction, his mind was a prodigal. Aimlessness took him into lawlessness, crack-dealing on the streets of East Palo Alto. He says he spent at least a year in the illicit business before accountability arrived at his doorstep. On an August morning in 1992, police and federal agents surrounded his mother's house, bringing dogs, a helicopter and a warrant for a massive 18-year-old named Devin Wyman, one of about 60 suspects rounded up that day in a vigorous sweep of the city, where drug-dealing had contributed to a soaring homicide rate. The evening news shows ran the footage of Wyman in handcuffs. And that was how he made his television debut, not by keeping a grandiose promise to his family, but by breaking a covenant with his mother, not as a hero, but as a villain, the symbol of a community's disarray. Wyman would make a second TV appearance. It happened four years after the bust. This time, instead of handcuffs, he wore a helmet. Devin Wyman, Inmate No. 1006062 in the corrections system of San Mateo County, had become Devin Wyman, No. 72 for the New England Patriots.
Devin Wyman
Clarence Lee is a National Champion football player from Florida State University. During his time as a lineman with the Florida State Seminoles he was the strongest player in the history of the university, bench pressing 650 pounds. He was also a scholar student pursuing a double major in Math Education and Pure Mathematics. He played for one of college football's greatest and most successful coaches, the legendary Bobby Bowden, who holds the record for the most wins in college football history. Coach Bowden considered Clarence one of his favorite athletes, because he saw Clarence as role model and example of moral character to the entire team. Clarence is a man of commitment in a world filled with compromise.
Clarence was a 300 pound lineman with tremendous speed. He also set the bench press record at the NFL scouting camp, making him one of the strongest professional football prospects for the NFL. His injuries caused his pursuit with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to end abruptly. He has played pro-football in the Arena League and still remains one of the strongest men in the nation.
Clarence Lee has spoken in thousands of schools throughout the USA and in over 30 countries around the world including: Greece, Thailand, Myanmar, Brazil, Romania, Ukraine, Belize, and Honduras. He is one of the most motivational and inspirational speakers in America, with a heart of compassion that is as large as his physical physique.
Clarence Lee
At 6 feet 3 inches tall, with a very muscular frame of 290 lbs, Dominic Miller was a standout defensive lineman for the University of Houston. He was one of the strongest players on the team. He played in the middle of a defense that helped lead the University of Houston to one of its best seasons in school history. He also assisted his team in a NCAA bowl game victory over a tough Penn State University football team.
Dominic was also an outstanding player at one of the top Junior Colleges in the nation, Blinn Jr College in Texas. He helped lead the team to a National Championship. He had a notable teammate at Blinn Jr. College, who is currently one of the top young superstar quarterbacks in the NFL, Cam Newton. Dominic was recruited across the nation by over 15 top division one major college powerhouse football programs. He chose to play at the University of Houston in order to stay close to home. Dominic is presently a free agent in the NFL right now, pursuing his first NFL contract.
Dominic has achieved another victory that goes beyond the football field; it's an achievement in the arena of academics. He is the first person in his family to graduate with a college degree!
Considering the major obstacles of his past, as well as having both of his parents incarcerated during his youth, he has demonstrated that he is a man of intense determination and unyielding perseverance.
Dominic Miller
Tanya graduated from and played four sports at South Dakota State University. She also
played three years of Women's Professional Basketball.
She was inducted into the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Hall of Champions and is in the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. Tanya now travels all over the world sharing her unique basketball handling show and inspirational message of hope and motivation. She has performed at many colleges, NBA and WNBA games.
She does her basketball show and appears at camps for universities, Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Upward Basketball Programs nationwide.
She will dazzle you with her skills and powerful message.
Tanya Crevier
James Gregory Henderson, also known as Big James Henderson and James "Hollywood" Henderson (born April 9, 1965 in Roxbury, Massachusetts) is a former powerlifter from the United States, who specialized in the bench press. He competed in the International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) and was five times Super Heavyweight World Bench Press Champion. He is the first man to bench press over 700 lb raw and set numerous world records throughout his career, including the all-time world record in the raw (unassisted) bench press with 711 pounds (323 kg).
Powerlifting Career
Henderson won five consecutive bench press world titles from the International Powerlifting Federation in the 1990s:
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1994 Järvenpää, Finland[2][3]
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1995 Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic[4]
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1996 Silkeborg, Denmark[5]
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1997 Leduc, Canada[6]
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1998 Amberg, Germany[7]
Henderson became the first man to bench press over 700 lb raw in May 1996 when he pressed 705 lb in just a t-shirt and made it on the cover of Powerlifting USA magazine.[8]
Personal records
Powerlifting competition record:
done in official powerlifting meets
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Bench press - 711.0 lb (322.5 kg) @ 390 lb (SHW) raw without wrist wraps and belt (July 13, 1997 USPF/IPF)[9][10]
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Heaviest Lift
James Henderson is the current world record holder for heaviest drug tested raw bench press in history and the highest raw bench press ever done in a full powerlifting 3-lift-meet (squat-bench press-deadlift). His record setting lift was 711.0 lbs. (322.5 kg)[13] and was performed on July 13, 1997 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the 3rd attempt at the USPF Senior Nationals (IPF/USPF sanctioned three-lift-event) under strict IPF-conditions.[11][9] On the same day, he pressed 683 lbs (310 kg) on the 1st, 699.9 lbs (317.5 kg) on the 2nd and even went for 722 lbs (327.5 kg)on the 4th, but barely missed it. Henderson bench pressed unequipped in the strictest meaning of the word - without belt, without elbow bandages and even without wrist wraps - in just a t-shirt and a singlet. Although Ted Arcidi was the first man to bench press 700 pounds, Henderson has his place in the record books as the first ever to press 700 pounds raw, without a bench press shirt.[14]
The current all-time raw bench press world record of 722 lb (327.5 kg) by Eric Spoto was performed in an open single-lift-meet (bench press only) at the 2013 SPF California State Powerlifting Meet in Sacramento, California on May 19, 2013.[11]
Big James Henderson
Caleb Crevier is from Elkton, south Dakota and is on of 12 children. In 2013, Caleb along with his parents and 11 brothers and sisters made it to the finals of Season 8 of Americas Got Talent. Caleb is a graduate of South Dakota State University and has traveled to over a dozen countries around the world. He performs with basketballs, unicycles and for the last two seasons, has performed the half times at the NBA finals between the Clevland cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors.
Caleb Crevier
At 6' 3" tall, and weighing 300 pounds, Jonathan Medina is a tremendous athlete. He was not only an outstanding football player, but he was also an All-State basketball player in the big state of Texas. On the football field, Jonathan was on of the most dominate lineman in the state, and the strongest player on his team.
Yet, what's most impressive about Jonathan is that he also excelled to the top in the classroom. He graduated as one of the top academic scholar students in the nation, with a 3.9 grade piont average. This was a tremendous accomplishment considering his mother was incarcerated, and he was raised by his migrant working grandparents, who only had a third grade education.
Furthermore, after being recruited to play college football by many major universities, Jonathan chose to attend college at one of the top academic institutions in the nation, Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Georgetown University is a school with a rich athletic heritage of success and championships, as well as one of the most expensive colleges in the nation.
Attending Georgetown was a giant leap outside of the box for Jonathan, considering he was from a poor little border town in South Texas. Yet he continued to excelled in the classroom and on the football field. He became a 3 year starter on the football team at offensive line, and graduated from Georgetown with academic honors, and a degree in sociology. He is the first in his family to ever attend and graduate for college!