Last Saturday, a high-energy crowd packed the Nelson Recreation Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, cheering loudly for bodybuilders strutting their stuff at the 2018 JBLM Bodybuilding Championship. Multicolored lights shone on contestants as they posed on stage before judges and audience members in the day's culminating performance event. In total, over 275 spectators showed up for the occasion, which included a nutrition clinic, functional fitness class, deadlift competition and bodybuilding competition.

RESULTS

Men's Physique
Winner: Demei Scriven
Second Place: Robert Clark
Third Place: Anthony Hale

Guest posers Michael Spencer and Tina “The Titan” Brown chatting with Army Sgt. Brian Kalenba during the event. Brown, who is a military spouse of an active-duty airman, is pursuing a career as a professional bodybuilder. Spencer, who won his first bodybuilding competition at JBLM in 2009, is an International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) professional bodybuilder.
“I owe everything to this show,” said Spencer. “I want to give soldiers coming back home from deployment an outlet other than drugs and alcohol. I want to use the title to motivate and inspire others in the military community through fitness.” Photo credit: Christina Butcher
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Men's Bodybuilding
Winner: Gerald Peil
Second Place: Jerome La-anas
Third Place: Rich Wetzel

Men's Classic Physique
Winner: Justin Cabot
Second Place: Jarome La-anas
Third Place: John Phillippi

Women's Physique
Winner: Amber Starnes
Second Place: Contessa Jaramillo

Women's Bikini
Winner: Anne Huntington
Second Place: Yumi Schade
Third Place: Courtney McShane

Women's Figure
Winner: Emily Burgess
Second Place: Courtney McShane
Third Place: Amber Starnes