6' 1 1/2" 300 lbs, 7th grade 12-yr old, student barred from PeeWee Football League.

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137. Why would "large" = "slowmoving"

An old article about Cheryl Haworth, an Olympic weightlifter who gave it up to teach art. Some large people can move pretty fast. Others can't and are not particularly talented in athletics. How do you figure out which is which just by looking at a picture?

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-521818.html

At the March national championships here, she easily topped the women's field and, for good measure, outlifted every male her age. She is so strong, U.S. women's national team coach Michael Cohen said, some high school football coaches avoid her training sessions at the state-of-the-art weightlifting complex in Savannah, Ga., so as not to demoralize their players.

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Even four years after her debut, she continues to make observers exclaim. In Frederick, she snatched an American record 264.6 pounds and lifted a record 319.7 pounds in the clean and jerk. She runs the 40-yard dash in five seconds flat, an excellent time for an NFL lineman. She has a 32-inch vertical leap, which would satisfy a college basketball coach. Her flexibility is equally impressive: She can do a split both with her legs splayed to the front and back as well as sideways.