QUIANA WELCH

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Quiana Welch has an extensive background in sports. She started her athletic career as a competitive gymnast and competed until the age of 11. During middle school and into college she playing volleyball as both an outside and right side hitter. Then, in 2009, she played professional women’s football for the Legends Football League (the LFL) as both a running back and safety.

She later moved to NYC and struggled to decide what she wanted to do next. Her friends and family had begged her for years to do a bodybuilding competition so she decided to give that a shot. She trained for 2 months and quickly became to muscular to compete in the bikini category, so she took some time off from working out to reevaluate her goals. After a year had passed she decided to train to compete in the figure category. She ended up placing 3rd in her class with only a few months of targeted training.

In 2013 she started working at a CrossFit gym and quickly realized that bodybuilding wasn’t the sport for her. Greg Glassman himself told her she needed to do CrossFit, so she did, and she began competing in 2014. She competed on 2 CrossFit regional teams and then went on to play GRID for the Boston Iron for 2 seasons. In her second season of GRID she met Chad Wesley Smith. He saw her potential as an Olympic Weightlifter and suggested she try that solely for a while. Through Chad and Juggernaut Training Systems she met her current coach Max Aita. Max has coached Quiana to win various champion medals and a two year American Record. Quiana is now a new mom to a beautiful baby boy, Langston Archer, and is learning how to navigate life as both a working mother and athlete.

CERTIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE

  • Precision Nutrition L1

  • CrossFit L2

  • CrossFit Kids

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • 2014 and 2016 CrossFit Games Team Member (CrossFit 212)

  • 2015 and 2016 Grid League Athlete for the Boston Iron

  • 2016 American Open Champion 90kg class

  • 2017 American Open 3 3rd place winner

  • 2017 American Open Finals Champion 75 kg class

  • 2018 Arnold American Open Champion 75 kg class

  • 2018 Pan Am Team member 

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