{"id":2223,"date":"2013-01-30T09:57:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/?p=2223"},"modified":"2013-01-30T09:57:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:57:32","slug":"npcs-athletes-of-the-month-for-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/2013\/01\/npcs-athletes-of-the-month-for-october-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC’s Athletes of the Month for October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Physique Committee and Gaspari Nutrition have named Michael VanLeeuwen, Rene Marven, Corinna Booth, Maura Bouchard, Gerald Pressley, Ginger Martin and Kristine Duba Athletes of the Month for the month of October.
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Each month, NPC President Jim Manion selects the Athletes of the Month in each of the organization\u2019s seven divisions \u2013 Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Bodybuilding, Figure, Bikini, Fitness and Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Physique \u2013 based on in-person analysis and on the information provided by contest promoters across the country and featured in the NPC News Online Contest Roundups.<\/p>\n

For complete profiles and galleries of the October NPC Athletes of the month, go to www.npcnewsonline.com.<\/p>\n

About the October Athletes of the Month:<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Men\u2019s Bodybuilding: Michael VanLeeuwen, 32, competed in his first NPC contest as a teenager in 1999. After a 10-year break, VanLeeuwen returned to the stage this year and won two Overall titles in October at the Dexter Jackson Memphis Classic and the Music City Championships. <\/p>\n

– Women\u2019s Bodybuilding: Rene Marven, 26, won the Middleweight division and Overall at the New York Grand Prix, giving her three straight class wins in her first three NPC contests dating back to 2011. In November, Marven kept that streak alive by winning her class and a pro card at the NPC Nationals. <\/p>\n

– Figure: Former military police officer Corinna Booth won her class and the Overall at the Ft. Lauderdale Championships. Booth, a single mother and full-time nursing student, also won her pro card this past November at the NPC Nationals. <\/p>\n

– Bikini: Brazilian-born Maura Bouchard won her class and the Overall at the Ft. Lauderdale Championships. Bouchard, 25, won Overall titles in four of her six NPC contests since she started competing in 2011.
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\n– Men\u2019s Physique: Gerald Pressley, 32, ran track and field at the University of South Carolina and was an All-American on the Gamecocks 4×400 meter relay team in 2001. Pressley won his class and the Overall at the Texas State Championships in his second Men\u2019s Physique competition.<\/p>\n

– Women\u2019s Physique: Ginger Martin\u2019s NPC career started in 2004, and the 43-year-old mother of three competed in both Figure and Women\u2019s Bodybuilding before finally finding a home in the Women\u2019s Physique division last year. In October, Martin won her class and the Overall at the Texas State Championships.<\/p>\n

– Fitness: Kristine Duba, 26, took a four-year break from fitness competitions, but returned with a vengeance this year by winning three Overall tittles in two contests, including the Fitness and Figure Overall at the Washington State Championships in October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Physique Committee and Gaspari Nutrition have named Michael VanLeeuwen, Rene Marven, Corinna Booth, Maura Bouchard, Gerald Pressley, Ginger Martin and Kristine Duba Athletes of the Month for the month of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2225,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223\/revisions\/2225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getbig.com\/headlines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}