Name: Gary Dehart Age: Turning 60 during the 2021 Open Occuptaion: Account Manager When did you first start CrossFit? About 5 years ago. Tell us about your sports & fitness background.In high school, I played football, wrestled, and played golf. During my college years, I began weight lifting and played rugby at Oklahoma State; also, I discovered road cycling. Since then, I’ve continued to lift and play golf with the occasional hiking or mountaineering adventure.How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go?I discovered CF surfing the net around 10 years ago. I began going to the main CF page every morning and soaking up all I could – I was amazed. However, I had been training solo for almost 20 years and coming into a gym surrounded with a lot of people was way out of my comfort zone. I finally decided to make some changes in...Read more

Name: Amy RiffAge: 39Occupation: EducatorWhen did you first start CrossFit? I started many years ago, but joined Eclipse in September of 2020. Tell us about your sports & fitness background. In high school, I danced about 3-4 days a week. I never really needed to do more than that. In college I went to the gym, but mostly did cardio. After college, much of the same until I started CrossFit. How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go? I started CrossFit because my husband started going. Crossfit was all he talked about: the WOD, his time on the WOD, how much he lifted or didn’t lift, etc. I had never really tried anything like that, but I was curious. So, I went. I stuck with it for several years and then I took about a 3year hiatus and did some other things. Then in September, I was...Read more

Name: Michelle Strate Age: 39 Occupation: RN at Oklahoma Surgical Hospital When did you first start CrossFit? August 2019 Tell us about your sports & fitness background. —played volleyball and was on the swim team in High school —started running and doing 5K mud runs years ago —power lifting with mixture of different workouts How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go? I kinda just wanted to try it one day, husband reached out to the coach at CrossFit Lamar where we used to live, she gave us the opportunity to try it out free for a week and really enjoyed the atmosphere, the friendliness, very welcoming, different workouts, the encouragement and just fell in love with it. My husband and I decided to move to Oklahoma for new beginnings, husband has family here and visited in Nov 2019. While we were here we tried out different...Read more

Name: Kim NicholasAge: 47Occupation: Manager of Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense at ONE GasWhen did you first start CrossFit? August 2020 Tell us about your sports & fitness background.I was always active and enjoyed playing sports growing up. I played tennis in high school and was on the row team (coxswain) my freshman year in college. After I got married and started having kids, I became less active and honestly got to a point where I wasn’t exercising or taking care of myself at all. I was worn out all the time with work, family and taking care of 2 kids. So, for about 16 years, I used this excuse to never exercise. How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go?I would have never started CrossFit if it wasn’t for my awesome husband Eric. He has been a member of CFE for 2 years and I...Read more

Name: Eric NicholasAge: 47Occupation: Director of Finance & Treasurer at QuikTripWhen did you first start CrossFit? November 2018 Tell us about your sports & fitness background.Growing up I played football, basketball, baseball and was very active. In college I got into lifting weights and stayed active with golf, tennis, softball, racquetball or pretty much any sport others wanted to play. After college my career and family took top priority and I started living a more sedentary life.  I combated this lifestyle with occasional periods ofexercise and workout regimens, like running, big box weight training, P90X, martial arts, etc. All of which were exciting and effective at first, but nothing ‘stuck’ and I would eventually get burned out or bored of the monotony. How did you first get into CrossFit? How did it go?I was introduced to CrossFit by a good friend, Ross McLaughlin. Ross was in a similar spot in...Read more