{"id":16719,"date":"2026-03-30T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=16719"},"modified":"2026-03-30T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T10:14:00","slug":"powerlifter-ty-akin-competes-at-state-meet-in-abilene-the-gilmer-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=16719","title":{"rendered":"Powerlifter Ty Akin competes at state meet in Abilene \u2013 The Gilmer Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"fl-post-119345\">\n<div class=\"fl-post-content clearfix\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-119346 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TY-AKIN-THSPA-STATE-MEET-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TY-AKIN-THSPA-STATE-MEET-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TY-AKIN-THSPA-STATE-MEET-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TY-AKIN-THSPA-STATE-MEET.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\"\/>Ty Akin of New Diana earned 11<sup>th<\/sup> place at state in the Unequipped 242 weight class, his totals were 525 squat, 275 bench and 475 on deadlift for a total of 1275 lbs.\u00a0 Devon Spencer of Brownsboro earned 9<sup>th<\/sup> place in the same class. His totals were 475 squat, 250 bench and 585 on deadlift for a total of 1310 lbs.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how the other ET lifters did but meet results have been posted: <a href=\"https:\/\/thspa.us\/results_all.aspx\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/thspa.us\/results_all.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1774922858239000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2wvCFcL83l_KOeOEoO-PLS\">https:\/\/thspa.us\/results_all.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a total of 1,110 competitors at Abilene, 148 total in the Unequipped Division.\u00a0 The Unequipped division is new this year and schools weren\u2019t separated according to size and instead all athletes from 1A-6A were in the same division.<\/p>\n<p>Meet results: <a href=\"https:\/\/thspa.us\/results_all.aspx\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/thspa.us\/results_all.aspx&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1774922858239000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2wvCFcL83l_KOeOEoO-PLS\">https:\/\/thspa.us\/results_all.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"webads-related-posts\">\n<h3>Related Posts<\/h3>\n<div class=\"fl-post-featured-post fl-post-featured-image-beside fl-post-featured-has-image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\">\n<div class=\"fl-post-featured-image\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/2026\/03\/27\/game-day-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Game Day\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/HEbBLejWcAA_gSA-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\" decoding=\"async\"\/> <\/a> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gilmermirror.com\/2026\/03\/30\/powerlifter-ty-akin-competes-at-state-meet-in-abilene\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Akin of New Diana earned 11th place at state in the Unequipped 242 weight class, his totals were 525 squat, 275 bench and 475 on deadlift for a total of 1275 lbs.\u00a0 Devon Spencer of Brownsboro earned 9th place in the same class. His totals were 475 squat, 250 bench and 585 on deadlift [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[273],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-powerlifting-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Powerlifter Ty Akin competes at state meet in Abilene \u2013 The Gilmer Mirror - World Bodybuilding News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldbodybuildingnews.com\/?p=16719\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Powerlifter Ty Akin competes at state meet in Abilene \u2013 The Gilmer Mirror - World Bodybuilding News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ty Akin of New Diana earned 11th place at state in the Unequipped 242 weight class, his totals were 525 squat, 275 bench and 475 on deadlift for a total of 1275 lbs.\u00a0 Devon Spencer of Brownsboro earned 9th place in the same class. 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