NPC Nationals 1998
by -jabber
Lightweights...


In the lightweights, the judging was remarkably close in agreement to the
-jabber's.  The one departure was 5th place finisher Maureen Davidson, an
attractive blonde with very large biceps for a lightweight.  I thought she
should've finished 3rd, knocking the next two down a peg.  I find watching
women flex anything but boring, sorry.  But I will agree with Hooligan that
the majority of the posing seen in the show was a bit tame, muted, and not
real dynamic.  Plus since I also like loud rock concerts, I felt the music
could've been louder.  Nothing better than loud music and muscular women! 
Ha.  In 4th was Dee Nesch-Thelon and in 3rd was Nicole Bouvier (should've
been 5th and 4th, respectively).  Arguably, though these two might've been
in better condition than Maureen Davidson, just did not exceed her
aesthetics (which I place above conditioning - although both are quite
important).  In 2nd was a cute Stacy Seaver, but an easy 1st place went to
a most impressive Denise Gerard.  By far the most muscular lightweight, she
was perhaps the best conditioned and most massive in her class with helluva
deal of aesthetics to boot.  I've seen Denise robbed in contests in the
past, I cheered loudly when she got the win.

Of note outside of the top five was a popular Lynn McCrossin, a personal
favorite of mine.  Milling around in the audience, her arm mass and tan
looked positively stellar.  I was incredulous when I realized this
reasonably short, but thick heavily muscled woman was only a lightweight!
What are her bones light as a feather?  Anyway, although I like her a lot
and there was no denying that her arms take a back seat to no one, as well
as her having quite the impressive thighs, to put it mildly, on stage, her
symmetry was all messed up.  These big bodyparts, while all good
individually, just didn't mesh nearly as well as most others, hence her
rightfully so not getting in the top 5.  But I still like you, Lynn. :-)