Cohen’s dedication paying dividends Bangor body builder moving up ranks

Adam Cohen will be a senior at Bangor High School when school gets under way next month. For the past two years he has been training seriously as a natural body builder.

His hard work paid off earlier this month when he won the junior and novice lightweight divisions at the Maine Supernatural Championships held at Scarborough High School.

The 18-year-old Cohen also placed fifth in the middleweight division and second in the combined category.

“I’ve been working hard for about a year and a half to two years,” Cohen said. “I’ve been told by the judges and a lot of people who competed [in Scarborough] that I have an enormous amount of potential, that I have what it takes to go professional.”

Cohen’s success has come without hard work. While some of his schoolmates may have been hitting the beach or involving themselves in other summertime activities, Cohen was hard at work.

“It’s difficult. I didn’t really have much of a summer. I didn’t do a lot of summer things. I was focused on my eating, training and posing routines,” Cohen explained.

His next competition is the junior nationals at Somerset, Mass., in November, so he doesn’t have time to relax from his regimen.

“I work at it everyday and my parents support me. They do all of my food shopping for me. They drive me to the gym. They went down to Scarborough. My brother, Ian, came up from Boston, from Tufts,” Cohen said.

And Cohen said he will stay with it after the nationals. His goal is to become a professional body builder.

“I’m definitely serious about it. I’d like to go as far as I can with it.”

Canoe team’s success continues

The Indian Island Boys and Girls Club canoe team made it’s presence felt at the Flatwater Nationals in Hanover, N.H., on the Connecticut River with national champions in the bantam division.

Bianca Moore and Brittney Paul teamed to win the C2 title for 11- and 12-year-olds.

The team’s coach, John Neptune, said the pair’s title was made even more impressive by the fact that more than 80 kids competed.

“This was the highest level of competition I’ve seen at one of these events,” Neptune said.

Ethan Dana placed second in the C1 bantam division, while Olivia Moore and Eve Dana joined forces for a second place finish in the juvenile (13-14 age group) C2 division and Gabe Paul and Aaron Sapiel were second in the junior (15-18) boys C2 class.

Eve Dana placed third in the C1 juvenile girls class.

Keep your eye on the ball

While Toby Spector’s sister Abby spent her time a couple of weeks ago walking Sugarloaf Golf Club in search of her seventh straight Women’s Maine State Golf Association championship, Toby was searching for something himself.

Golf balls. He had better luck than his sister. Abby finished second in the tournament and at the end of the three-day tournament, Toby had found 204 golf balls.

Toby, who has caddied for his sister at past tournaments, was a spectator at this year’s tourney, so he walked the course with his dad, Gary.

“I was bored, so I started going off into the woods,” Spector said.

The 16-year-old junior at Waterville High School plays on the school’s golf team. He shouldn’t have to spend a lot of money on equipment.

“I think I’m probably all set on balls,” he laughed.

Don Perryman can be reached at 990-8045, 1-800-310-8600 or dperryman@bangordailynews.net