 General:
Born: 1969
Started training: 1993
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (trains at the YMCA)
Occupation: Graphic Artist and Web Designer (Owner of Dejager Productions)
Sponsored by: No one.
Trainer/Coach: Self-trained.
Hobbies: weight training, art, learning new computer
software, and promoting
natural (i.e. drug-free) bodybuilding.
Physique:
- Height: 5' 4"
- Competition bodyweight: 118 lbs.
- Off-season bodyweight: 125-130 lbs.
Competitive History:
- 2001 IFBB World Women's Amateur Championships (drug-tested
competition) - 10th-place Middleweight Women's bodybuilding.
- 2001 CBBF World Qualifier (drug-tested competition) -
1st-place Middleweight Women' s bodybuilding, Overall winner.
- 2001 Ontario National Qualifier (drug-tested competition) -
1st-place Middleweight Women' s bodybuilding, Overall winner.
- 1999 CBBF World Qualifier (drug-tested competition) -
4th-place Middleweight Women's bodybuilding.
- 1999 Ontario National Qualifier (drug-tested competition) -
1st-place Middleweight Women's bodybuilding,
Overall winner.
- 1997 Canadian BodyBuilding Championships - 9th-place
Heavyweight Women's bodybuilding.
- 1997 Ontario BodyBuilding Championships - 1st-place
Middleweight Women's bodybuilding.
- 1996 Ontario BodyBuilding Championships - 2nd-place
Heavyweight Women's bodybuilding.
- 1995 Sudbury BodyBuilding Championships - 1st-place
Middleweight Women's bodybuilding.
- 1995 Kingston BodyBuilding Championships - 1st-place Open
Women's bodybuilding.
Training and Nutrition Strategy:
- My nutritional and training strategy that I use today is all
self taught. I have learned through many years of trial and error.
- When weight training in the off-season I like to stick to
basic movements and use heavy weights for lower repetitions.
- In the off-season I train 5 days per week with a diet that
has high protein and moderate carbohydrates. I supplement with vitamins.
- For contest preparation I use lighter weights and higher
repetitions.
- When preparing for a contest I also increase training to 6
days per week. My diet remains generally the same, although I decrease my carbohydrates.
- I believe that what you eat reflects on how your body
appears so I am very careful when selecting my food.
- Water is very important and I drink about 5 litres per day
both in the off-season and during competition preparation.
Goals and Achievements:
- My 2002 bodybuilding goals are to again place at the top of
the 2002 CBBF National World Qualifier (to be held in Halifax, NS) and then to again
compete in and move my placing to the top spots at the 2002 IFBB World Women's
Championships.
- In both 1996 and 1997 I received the "Ottawa Canada
Excellence" award for bodybuilding. It was presented to me by the Mayors of Ottawa at
the time at the ACT Annual Sports Awards held at the Congress Centre in Ottawa. Both
times it was televised and I received a plaque and medal for each year. This award is to
recognize outstanding amateur athletes in this area.
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