Finding Her Voice
She had been living ‘stealth’ since she was 16, hiding that she was transgender. No one asked Chloie Jönsson about it and she didn’t dare…
Tag Archives: CrossFit Games
Chandler Smith: Chasing Greatness Against All Odds
After making a name for himself during the 2016 Atlantic Regionals, Chandler Smith —a West point graduate who is currently serving as an officer in…
Meet the Oldest CrossFit Games Competitor
Clarke Holland is a dual-sport athlete, having competed at the World Weightlifting Championships and —this week— in the CrossFit Games for the sixth time. Holland…
Changing Course: Carleen Matthews’ Wild Ride
They slowly started to trickle in that fateful night in mid-May, hesitant, anxious and unsure. There was more than a dozen, perhaps as many as…
Mallory Lawson: on Motherhood, Defeat and Staying Elite
Strip away the award ceremonies and medals. Ignore the thunderous screams and applause of the crowd, the deafening emcees and the music thumping as an…
Having Faith
By: Sherrie Shover “This year will be different for me. For the first time, I’m heading into the Open more excited than nervous. God has…
Master-ful: Ron Ortiz’s Best Advice for Athletes and finding his Old Man Strength
It started with a pair of pants. Ron Ortiz, at the time in his mid-40s, had always been an athlete. But somewhere after joining the…
Persist-ENCE: On Failure, Self-Image and Learning to Rise
Last May, driving home from the California Regionals, Brooke Ence made a big mistake. Ence, who just finished sixth to come up short of…
17.5 Tips and How to Prep
The 2017 CrossFit Open is in its fifth and final week and 17.5 will push you to the limit. If you made it this far,…
17.3 Tips and How to Prep
The 2017 CrossFit Open is underway and that means five weeks of worldwide competition designed to push you to the limit (see why the CrossFit…
