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NPC Natural Ohio Championships

April 11, 2026
NPC

Years: 2026 2025 2024 2023
Divisions: MEN'S BODYBUILDING MEN'S CLASSIC PHYSIQUE MEN'S PHYSIQUE FIT MODEL BIKINI WOMEN'S WELLNESS FIGURE WOMEN'S PHYSIQUE

MEN'S BODYBUILDING

overall winner
Andrew Schultz
heavyweight
1 Jack Pacek 2 Alberto Soto
light heavyweight
1 Andrew Schultz 2 Mike Chrysosthome 3 Donte White 4 Rico Browning
middleweight
1 Maurice Jefferson 2 Jeffrey Ruf
welterweight
1 Michael Gingerich 2 Gavin Walls 3 Reed Defrang 4 Gavin Orlandi
novice heavyweight
1 Allen David Forrest
novice lightweight
1 Gavin Walls 2 Zach Hicks 3 Reed Defrang 4 Gavin Orlandi 5 Chase Defrang
true novice
1 Maurice Jefferson 2 Chase Defrang 3 Rony Mazariegos 4 Mark Walters
bantamweight
1 Samuel Vansickle 2 David Jakubiec Iii 3 Orlando Figueroa-Sanchez
masters 40+
1 Jeffrey Ruf 2 Alberto Soto
masters 50+
1 Jeff Mumaw 2 Alberto Soto
masters 60+
1 Rico Browning 2 Don Mannarino 3 Jeff Mumaw 4 Alberto Soto 5 Allen David Forrest
lightweight
1 Zach Hicks 2 Chase Defrang 3 Brandon Francik 4 Jeff Mumaw
teenage
1 Michael Gingerich 2 Aiden Waddell 3 Brendan Muhlbach

FIGURE

overall winner
Lilijana Kotar
novice a
1 Olivia Metty 2 Natasha Simmons 3 Emily Langel 4 Alicia Lotti-Tungate 5 Decarla Reed
novice b
1 Dorsena Koonce 2 Emily Black 3 Luisa Hernandez 4 Alexa Riolo 5 Daisy Thompson 6 Kaelin Davis
true novice a
1 Lilijana Kotar 2 Olivia Metty 3 Julia Irwin 4 Caroline Mcguckin
true novice b
1 Dorsena Koonce 2 Emily Black 3 Luisa Hernandez 4 Natasha Simmons 5 Kaelin Davis
masters 35+
1 Dorsena Koonce 2 Luisa Hernandez 3 Natasha Simmons 4 Joni Laux 5 Alicia Lotti-Tungate 6 Decarla Reed 7 Amanda Romeo
masters 40+
1 Luisa Hernandez 2 Alicia Lotti-Tungate 3 Julia Irwin 4 Decarla Reed 5 Amanda Romeo
masters 50+
1 Decarla Reed 2 Amanda Romeo
class a
1 Decarla Reed 2 Caroline Mcguckin
class b
1 Lilijana Kotar 2 Olivia Metty 3 Emily Langel 4 Alicia Lotti-Tungate 5 Julia Irwin 6 Destiny Copenhaver
class c
1 Natasha Simmons 2 Alexa Riolo 3 Amanda Romeo
class d
1 Jacqueline Holzbaur 2 Emily Black 3 Luisa Hernandez 4 Joni Laux 5 Daisy Thompson 6 Kaelin Davis

BIKINI

overall winner
Jessica Maldonado
novice a
1 Lillian Alfsen 2 Maribel Torres
novice b
1 Jacqueline Hufziger 2 Danielle Koehler
novice c
1 Jessica Maldonado 2 Taylor Cairns 3 Kathryn Mason 4 Megan Sayre 5 Kirsten Overholser 6 Tessa Heim
novice d
1 Megan Mueller 2 Kylee Layman 3 Jennifer Dieterich 4 Emma Osborn 5 Stephanie Thomas
novice e
1 Kristin Luck 2 Caroline Rownd 3 Taylor Cox 4 Michelle Grisvard
novice f
1 Michelle Perry 2 Carly Valvoda
true novice a
1 Jessica Maldonado 2 Lillian Alfsen 3 Taylor Cairns 4 Kathryn Mason 5 Megan Sayre 6 Tammy Shuff 7 Kirsten Overholser 8 Stephany James 9 Alyssa Akins
true novice b
1 Megan Mueller 2 Mackenzie Topalian 3 Kylee Layman 4 Emma Osborn 5 Angela Roncone 6 Shannon Crow 7 Stephanie Thomas
true novice c
1 Caroline Rownd
masters 35+
1 Michelle Perry 2 Jennifer Dieterich 3 Angela Roncone 4 Natalie Young
masters 40+
1 Jennifer Dieterich 2 Angela Roncone 3 Anna Drouillard 4 Shannon Crow 5 Maribel Torres 6 Danielle Koehler
masters 50+
1 Tammy Shuff 2 Jennifer Dieterich 3 Sarah Niehart 4 Anna Drouillard 5 Michelle Grisvard
class a
1 Lillian Alfsen 2 Maribel Torres
class b
1 Sabrina Soto 2 Stephany James 3 Jacqueline Hufziger
class c
1 Jessica Maldonado 2 Kathryn Mason 3 Megan Sayre 4 Kirsten Overholser 5 Danielle Herman 6 Natalie Young 7 Tessa Heim
class d
1 Taylor Cairns 2 Jennifer Dieterich 3 Sarah Niehart 4 Anna Drouillard
class e
1 Allison Wetzler 2 Megan Mueller 3 Kylee Layman 4 Stephanie Thomas
class f
1 Emma Osborn 2 Angela Roncone
class g
1 Kristin Luck 2 Caroline Rownd 3 Taylor Cox 4 Laci Sager
class h
1 Michelle Perry 2 Carly Valvoda
collegiate
1 Taylor Cox
teenage
1 Alyssa Akins

MEN'S PHYSIQUE

overall winner
Eli Dority
novice a
1 Bryan Quijada 2 Patrick Gerrity 3 Shane Stout
novice b
1 Rico Hinton 2 Seth Truman 3 Joe Toth 4 Vaughn Harris 5 Romaine Delapenha 6 Daniel Shaferly 7 Will Couch 8 Jacob Stuller 9 Andrew Kish 10 Alan Rice 11 Justin Reynolds 12 Andrew Spanos
true novice a
1 Seth Truman 2 Joe Toth 3 Breylon Brown 4 Daniel Shaferly 5 Antonio Washington 6 Patrick Gerrity 7 Reggie Phoeson 8 Devonte Thomas 9 Stephen Cannon
true novice b
1 Eli Dority 2 Vaughn Harris 3 Jacob Stuller 4 Adam Hyde 5 Justin Reynolds 6 James Bennett
masters 35+
1 Intae Jung 2 Kermit Caves Ii 3 Vinny Shirey 4 Kevin Laux 5 Reggie Phoeson 6 Andrew Kish 7 Alan Rice 8 Stephan Evans 9 Jamar Blackmon
class a
1 Chrisson Aristilde 2 Patrick Gerrity
class b
1 Kyle Cummings 2 Bryan Quijada 3 Kermit Caves Ii 4 Shane Stout
class c
1 Intae Jung 2 Rico Hinton 3 Joe Toth 4 Christopher Lane 5 Breylon Brown 6 Vinny Shirey 7 Lenny Patterson 8 Daniel Shaferly 9 Alan Rice 10 Antonio Washington 11 Andrew Phillips 12 Devonte Thomas
class d
1 Eli Dority 2 Marzell Brooks 3 Seth Truman 4 Kevin Laux 5 Romaine Delapenha 6 Jacob Stuller 7 Justin Reynolds
teenage
1 Will Couch

MEN'S CLASSIC PHYSIQUE

overall winner
Mike Chrysosthome
novice a
1 Donte White 2 Gavin Walls 3 Gavin Orlandi 4 Tanner Keith 5 James Alvear
novice b
1 Nicholas Lisco 2 Romaine Delapenha 3 Vaughn Harris 4 Jack Pacek 5 Mohammed Salameh
true novice a
1 Cyprian Nowakowski 2 Eli Dority 3 Daniel Miller 4 Brandon Rader 5 Owen Kravetz 6 Mark Walters 7 Brad South 8 Tanner Keith 9 Ryan Leasure 10 Frankie Branch 11 Brendan Muhlbach
true novice b
1 Donte White 2 Nicholas Lisco 3 Vaughn Harris 4 Jack Pacek 5 Mohammed Salameh
masters 35+
1 Brad South 2 Jeffrey Ruf 3 Randy Hill 4 James Alvear
class a
1 Samuel Vansickle 2 Zach Hicks 3 David Jakubiec Iii 4 Owen Kravetz 5 Orlando Figueroa-Sanchez 6 Mark Walters
class b
1 Mike Chrysosthome 2 Gavin Walls 3 Michael Gingerich 4 Rico Browning 5 Gavin Orlandi 6 Jeffrey Ruf 7 Nathan Coudriet 8 Tanner Keith 9 Darrell Jackson
class c
1 Donte White 2 Nicholas Lisco 3 Daniel Miller 4 Romaine Delapenha 5 Noah Black 6 Jack Pacek 7 Mohammed Salameh 8 Brendan Muhlbach
teenage
1 Cyprian Nowakowski 2 Michael Gingerich 3 Aiden Waddell 4 David Jakubiec Iii 5 Ryan Leasure 6 Brendan Muhlbach 7 Jaxon Vance

WOMEN'S PHYSIQUE

overall winner
Jacqueline Holzbaur
open
1 Jacqueline Holzbaur 2 Jill Furlough 3 Destiny Copenhaver 4 Karen Peterson
novice
1 Karen Peterson
masters 35+
1 Jill Furlough 2 Karen Peterson

WOMEN'S WELLNESS

overall winner
Luyao Shen
novice
1 Tiffany Malkowski 2 Emily Black 3 Emily Yurisic 4 Kaitlyn Syvertsen 5 Katherine Skinner 6 Keisha Gonzalez 7 Chasity Sumlin
true novice
1 Melissa Ohmen 2 Amber Robinson 3 Tiffany Malkowski 4 Kylie Wright 5 Emily Black 6 Emily Yurisic 7 Kaitlyn Syvertsen 8 Valerie Munshower 9 Keisha Gonzalez
masters 35+
1 Katherine Skinner 2 Keisha Gonzalez 3 Chasity Sumlin
class a
1 Luyao Shen 2 Tiffany Malkowski 3 Kylie Wright 4 Kaitlyn Syvertsen
class b
1 Melissa Ohmen 2 Angeline Serratos 3 Amber Robinson 4 Michiah Naylor 5 Sarah Uebel 6 Katherine Skinner 7 Chasity Sumlin
class c
1 Valerie Munshower
class d
1 Emily Black 2 Emily Yurisic

FIT MODEL

overall winner
Skylar Lakes
novice
1 Brianna Gedeon 2 Ayra Ajay 3 Brittany Fortson 4 Danica Disbennett
true novice
1 Brianna Gedeon 2 Brittany Fortson 3 Allison Waltman 4 Hayleigh Mendez
masters 35+
1 Maly Atkinson 2 Danielle Disbennett 3 Allison Waltman
class a
1 Maly Atkinson 2 Brianna Gedeon 3 Ayra Ajay 4 Brittany Fortson 5 Danica Disbennett 6 Allison Waltman
class b
1 Skylar Lakes 2 Kaila Brady 3 Danielle Disbennett 4 Hayleigh Mendez

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