{"id":137615,"date":"2022-02-18T08:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=137615"},"modified":"2022-04-21T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T17:10:17","slug":"jackie-berube-black-m-s-10-inducted-into-usa-weightlifting-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=137615","title":{"rendered":"Jackie Berube-Black M.S. \u201910 inducted into USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jackie Berube-Black is the 15th women to enter the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame. She earned her master’s degree in exercise physiology from UCCS in 2010. Photo credit: Cyrus McCrimmon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A UCCS alumna, Jackie Berube-Black \u201910, is the 15th woman to enter the USA Weightlifting Hall of Fame as an athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black, who earned her master\u2019s degree in exercise physiology from UCCS in 2010, is a world-class athletic phenomenon \u2014 and not just in weightlifting. She was a four-time high school state champion gymnast in Michigan who spent three years competing at the collegiate level on the University of Wisconsin \u2013 La Crosse\u2019s women\u2019s gymnastics team, where she was named an Academic All-American gymnast. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet after she completed her fourth and final year of eligibility as a gymnast, she came to her athletic career\u2019s first crossroads: how to apply her strength, skill and drive, if not as a gymnast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black decided to blaze her own trail \u2014 so she tried out for the UWL men\u2019s wrestling team. Black spent a groundbreaking year competing with varsity male athletes. After graduating from UWL with a dual degree in community health education and exercise science, she wrestled on the USA Women\u2019s National Wrestling Team and won a silver medal in the 1996 World Wrestling Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then she was faced with a second crossroads. While working as a strength and conditioning coach at Northwestern University, she met Tara Nott-Cunningham, an Olympic gold medalist, who encouraged Black to try competitive weightlifting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black hoped to make it to the Olympics one day, and the Olympics wouldn\u2019t add women\u2019s wrestling to its roster for years. So she shifted her focus to weightlifting, which became an official sport for women at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though Black was never able to compete in the Olympics, despite being named an Olympic alternate for three Games \u2014 in 2004, 2008 and 2012 \u2014 she amassed a number of titles and achievements. She was named Pan American Champion in 2005, a six-time National Weightlifting Champion and is a former American record-holder for the snatch, clean and jerk, and total score. Black continued competing as a master lifter, winning both the Pan American and world titles in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her passion for weightlifting has never left her. Black is now the owner of Pinnacle Weightlifting and Sports Performance in Colorado Springs, and teaches part-time at the National Personal Training Institute. She also serves as a national sport support coach for USA Weightlifting, where she focuses on supporting youth athletes from ages 13\u201327 in achieving excellence in Olympic and world competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI never thought the Hall of Fame was something I would achieve, because I never made the Olympics,\u201d Black said in response to the news. \u201cThis is special for me in a lot of ways. It gives a lot of purpose to all the years I spent chasing that dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black\u2019s achievement was honored at an induction ceremony at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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