The 2016 IWF Junior World Championships start tomorrow in Tblisi, Georgia, and the United States has some very competitive juniors out there representing Team USA. Yesterday, we saw the women’s team, and today, we’ve got the men’s side. Impressively, half the team is coached by Travis Mash!

CJ Cummings (69kg)

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CJ Cummings holds youth, junior, and senior American records in various weight classes. He will be compete as a youth at Junior Worlds, where he has some age-group world records in his sights.

Mason Groehler (77kg)

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Groehler is currently the seventh-ranked junior lifter in the nation based off a 294kg total at the 2016 Junior Pan-Ams. He is one of Travis Mash’s four athletes entered in the competition.

Tanner Reichardt (77kg)

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Reichardt lifts under Garage Strength's Dane Miller, who also helps coach Norik Vardanian and several other high-level American lifters.

Jordan Cantrell (85kg)

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Cantrell is the fifth-ranked junior in the nation with a 320kg total at Junior Nationals.

Nathan Damron (85kg)

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Damron is another member of the Mash Mafia. He competed at the 2015 Junior World Championships, and recently earned silver at the 2016 Junior Pan-Ams.

Dylan Cooper (94kg)

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Cooper is yet another of Travis Mash’s athletes. He also competed at the 2015 Junior Worlds.

Tom Summa (94kg)

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Summa is the last of Mash’s athletes, and also competed at the 2015 Junior Worlds and the 2016 Junior Pan-Ams:

Joshua Ji (105kg)

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Ji recently earned a silver medal at the 2016 Junior Pan-Ams.

Alternates:

Tom Piscopo (69kg)

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Piscopo is the 15th-ranked junior in the nation based on a 264kg total from the 2015 American Open.

John Stang (62kg)

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Stang is the 14th-ranked junior in the U.S., and recently competed at the 2016 Junior Pan-Ams:



John Stang, Mason Groehler, Jordan Cantrell, Tom Summa, Dylan Cooper, Nathan Damron, and Joshua Ji also represented the U.S. at the Pan American Junior Championships in April. Find all of the archived footage here.