I was browsing through a Texas High School powerlifting website checking out how much these kids lift, and I realized my son is lifting weights that could put him at the state level. He hasn’t been training for powerlifting, just sports. He weighs between 165 and 170 he is a junior this year, his bench is around 310, his squat is in the high 400s, never really maxes out much and doesn’t use a belt or anything, but I know for sure he can do a 450 legal squat, and about the same for deadlift.
His passion is football and track, but he isn’t gonna play football at the next level with his size, possibly a track scholarship in his future. My question is what does it take to get a scholarship for powerlifting? He enjoys weightlifting and knows if he concentrated on it could up his numbers quite a bit. His high school doesn’t have a powerlifting team but could enter him in meets.
Right now his goal is to get some kind of athletic scholarship, we’ve been thinking track, we will see this year as he had a torn ACL last year, but before that he ran the 200 in the high 21s. With his current numbers does it seem feasible that he could work at it and be good enough for powerlifting at the next level?