2025 Registration Opens in January

USA Powerlifting
(NE-2025-02)

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General Information

Lightweight men cutoff TBD
DATE: July 12, 2025
Weigh Ins and Equipment Check: 7-8:30 a.m.
Lifting begins: 9 a.m.

All Women & Men TBD
DATE: July 13, 2025
Weigh Ins and Equipment Check: 7-8:30 a.m.
Lifting begins: 9 a.m.

SITE: TBD

SANCTION: This event is sanctioned through USA Powerlifting. All lifters must be current USA Powerlifting members by July 1, 2025. USA Powerlifting membership fees are $70 (Open, Masters, Juniors); $45 (Teens); $25 (Youth); $20 (Special Olympian). Memberships can be purchased at https://www.usapowerlifting.com/member-tools/membership.php. *If renewing, go to the renewal tab instead of starting a new membership.

DRUG TESTING WILL BE CONDUCTED. A minimum of 10% of participants will be drug tested. Youth and Special Olympians are exempt from drug testing. The release of liability is completed when purchasing your USA Powerlifting Membership. You can search the status of any current medications/supplements at https://www.globaldro.com/US/search. Select “Weightlifting” for the sport.

RULES: Meet will be conducted using kilogram weights. Rules will be those of USA Powerlifting. All competitors need to wear a one-piece lifting suit (singlet). For additional information, visit https://www.usapowerlifting.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/USAPL-Rulebook-v2024.1.pdf.

All t-shirts & singlets must comply with USA Powerlifting logo rules. All team and gym logos must be approved and on the list below as of July 1, 2025.

WEIGHT CLASSES:
Men: 52 kg, 60kg, 67.5kg, 75kg, 82.5kg, 90kg, 100kg, 110kg, 125kg, 140kg, 140kg+
Women: 44kg, 48kg, 52kg, 56kg, 60kg, 65kg, 70kg, 75kg, 82.5kg, 90kg, 100kg, 100kg+

Additional weight classes for Youth lifters:
Boys: 30kg, 35kg, 40kg, 44kg, 48kg
Girls: 30kg, 35kg, 40kg

Team Competition:

Team scoring TBD.

Coaches/captains interested need to contact csgpowerlifting@gmail.com for additional information.

Teams must be a registered club with USA Powerlifting by July 1, 2025. For a current listing/registration info for teams, see https://www.usapowerlifting.com/clubs.

Best Lifter:

Best lifter awards (contributed by A7) will be given out for the following categories:

Best Male/Female Raw Open Full Power (by age adjusted DOTS – must be entered in the Open division)

Best Male/Female Raw Age Division Full Power (by age adjusted DOTS) – Can be entered in open and/or the lifter’s appropriate age division (teen/junior/master) **If the age division best lifter if also the open best lifter, the age division award will go to the second place lifter**

Best Male/Female Raw Bench (by age adjusted DOTS)

Best Equipped Lifter (Male and Female combined by age adjusted DOTS)

NOTES:

Any lifters wishing to compete in Raw with wraps, Adaptive, MX, or Para bench divisions, please contact lifted and weight class only. Youth lifters will not be combined with other ages or weight classes for any division entered. csgpowerlifting@gmail.com for instructions on entry.

Youth, Teenage, Junior, and Masters lifters – Age the day of competition (July 12-13, 2025)

Powerlifting will be capped at 160 lifters. Lifters will not be added from the waitlist after the final entry deadline.

Bench press only and push pull (bench press and deadlift) will be determined by the DOTS formula.
Age group competitions (ex- Teen Bench Only) will use the age-based DOTS formula.

Weight classes may be combined based on entries. Combined Age group weight classes will use the age-based DOTS formula. Combined open weight classes will use the standard DOTS formula.

Push-pull lifters are eligible for single lift bench records only. That division is not eligible for full meet bench or deadlift records.

Youth lifters will be scored by total amount

Events

Event Name

Powerlifting (Squat, Bench Press, Deadlift)

Push Pull (Bench Press and Deadlift)

Bench Only

Events run simultaneously – if entered in full power, your same lifts will be used for push pull and bench only. You do not have to lift multiple times.

Divisions:

Youth (8-13 Years)

Teen (14-19 Years)

Open (14+)

Masters (40+)

Special Olympics (14+)

Team Competition (Teams must be registered clubs with USA Powerlifting)

Registration Fees & Deadlines

Exciting News for 2025! Exclusive Online Apparel Store!

Purchase official gear for the 2025 Cornhusker State Games via the online apparel shop HERE.
All apparel will be shipped directly to you, so you can rock your official gear in style!
No packet pickup required – competition info and items will be available onsite or online with details sent straight to your inbox.

Get ready to gear up and represent the 2025 Cornhusker State Games!

PRICING DEADLINES:
$60 for first event until February 19
$65 for first event until April 23
$70 for first event until FINAL DEADLINE on July 2

Additional events – $15

ENTRY FEE INCLUDES: Competition and Summer Fun Freebies (coming soon) courtesy of our sponsors.

PAPER ENTRY FORMS: Paper entry forms will be accepted with a $5 processing fee. Registering online saves time, money and trees.

Our contributors at A7 have supplied us with wrist wraps for a “raffle” for everyone entered in the meet for 2025! There is no additional cost per entry – it will be based on your meet entry! Entries will be based on the price jump deadlines. There is no option to buy additional tickets – you earn more entries by entering early! There will be 4 pairs raffled off each day.

Enter by 1st Price Jump – 3 “tickets”

Enter by 2nd Price Jump – 2 “tickets”

All remaining entries – 1 “ticket”