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Holley Mangold (Olympic weightlifter)

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Nick Mangold's 'girly-girl' sister gives up football for weightlifting
By Jodie Valade, The Plain Dealer
May 29, 2010

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Holley Mangold trains at King's Gym in Bedford. Mangold, the sister of former Ohio State star and current New York Jets center Nick Mangold, hopes to compete on the USA Olympic women's weightlifting team in 2012.

Not too long ago, the nickname everyone used most often was "The Other Mangold."

As in, the one who wasn't Nick Mangold. Still a football player, still a hulking offensive lineman. Still a 300-pound behemoth like big brother, Nick, the New York Jets lineman who once anchored the Ohio State offensive line.

Except one major difference. Holley Mangold likes certain things her older brother doesn't -- such as pink nail polish and frilly ribbons dangling from her long blond hair.

A self-proclaimed "girly girl," Holley Mangold actually had no problem differentiating herself from that other Mangold when she played with the boys on her Archbishop Alter High School football team. She was a strong lineman on the football team just like her brother, sure. And she received plenty of acclaim in her hometown outside Dayton because she was a girl in the otherwise all-male sport. Still, she earned the most publicity for her back-up lineman position merely because she was Nick's little sister, The Other Mangold.

Now, finishing her second year at Ursuline College, Holley Mangold is finding a way to break free from the shadow of big brother. The Other Mangold has found an entirely new sport, and it might be her ticket to the 2012 Olympics in London.

Mangold has developed into a world-class weightlifter, and after just two years of dedicated lifting, appears headed to Colorado Springs, Colo., to train with USA Weightlifting in hopes of realizing her dream of competing in the Olympics.

She'll always be a Mangold, but Holley is out to make her own name, too.

"Holley is an unconventional girl," said her mother, Therese. "There's no two ways about it. Her personality is really differ ent and unique. She's always been a big girl, she grew up being a big girl, yet she loves girly things. She used to love wearing twirly dresses. She would go with football practice and games with fingernail polish on."

Because she's a Mangold and because she has the same build of older brother Nick, a 6-4, 305-pound center, she followed in his footsteps from the start. Holley Mangold loved football, too, and began playing for her high school team. At 5-9 and 310 pounds, she fit in easily with the teammates she called "brothers."

They'd all hit the weight room together, and oftentimes, Holley Mangold would challenge her "brothers" to lifts. They'd bench press and squat, comparing who could do the exercises with the most weight.

"We stopped because I could beat them," Mangold said modestly.
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Nick Mangold's 'girly-girl' sister gives up football for weightlifting | cleveland.com
 
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I wonder why she never considered Track & Field at a very good track school. I know that in quite a few of the events that is more technique than just plain strength but I would think with her natural gifts she could catch up to the technical part fairly fast and her strength is not an issue. I would think that she could make the Olympic team in track and field with a little bit of training.
 
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Alter grad to appear on MTV Thursday
By Amelia Robinson | Wednesday, June 29, 2011

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Alter grad and 2012 U.S. Olympic team hopeful Holley Mangold will give MTV a lift Thursday.
Photo by Steve Fauer

The 5-foot-8, 320-pound former high school football lineman will appear on an episode of the cable network?s series ?True Life? called ?I?m the Big Girl.?

It premieres at 11 p.m. For a sneak peek, view MTV?s trailer here:

Mangold, the sister of New York Jet Nick Mangold, is one of the USA?s top women lift weightlifters.

She is competing full-time.

?Holley knows that the road to London will be full of obstacles as she tries to overcome her lack of experience, her injuries, and her insecurity about making the grade. She?s got the weight of the world on her shoulders,? a press release from MTV says.
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http://www.daytondailynews.com/blog...011/06/29/alter_grad_to_appear_of_mtv_th.html
 
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Posted: Wed March 7, 2012
Nick Zaccardi>INSIDE OLYMPIC SPORTS
Holley Mangold altered training, lifestyle to qualify for Olympics

Holley Mangold dreamed of the Olympics just like anybody else -- but she dreamed from a mattress on a laundry-room floor.

Mangold, at 5-foot-8 and 357 pounds, started out as a football player; she's the younger sister of New York Jets Pro Bowl center Nick Mangold, and she had a national news-making stint as the first Ohio girl to play offensive line in a high school game in 2006. But Holley transitioned sports, and she's been a competitive super-heavyweight weightlifter for the last two years. She became an Olympian on March 4, when she made the U.S. team for the 2012 Games in the 75-kilo-plus (165 pounds and up) division.

"I was an okay high school football player, it's not like I was fantastic," Mangold said over the phone. "It was so ... just shocking because I was a female, and I was a lineman, and I'd done it for 12 years. I don't think any other girl had done that. ... This (weightlifting) I have worked hard for. I was blessed with the muscle mass that I have, and then I was blessed with people around me who shape me and make me who I am. I was okay at football, but this I'm pretty good at."

Weightlifting has been part of the Olympics since the first modern Games in 1896, but women didn't compete until 2000, when Americans Tara Nott and Cheryl Haworth took gold and bronze, respectively. No U.S. lifter -- man or woman -- has reached the podium since. China has emerged as the world's strongest nation, which will contribute to its bid to finally overtake the U.S. in the overall medal count in London.

There is hope that Mangold can return some power for the red, white and blue. She's improved her combined total in the two Olympic lifts (snatch and clean-and-jerk) by 77 pounds since moving from the Olympic training center in Colorado Springs, Colo., to Columbus, Ohio, in February 2011.

"I describe it as the 'Price is Right' (Cliffhanger) guy, the yodeler that goes up (the mountain)," said her coach, Mark Cannella, a retired cup-of-coffee lifter who once instructed and spotted former Ohio State tailback Maurice Clarett. "She's been improving straight up for this last year."

She peaked Sunday. Mangold snatched 110 pounds and clean-and-jerked 145 to snare the second of two Olympic berths for the U.S. women. That would have placed her ninth at last year's world championships but just 18 pounds out of fifth.

"I told her coach afterward that this is not the last Olympic team she's going to make," said 2008 Olympian Carissa Gump, who now works for USA Weightlifting. "If she sticks at it and stays focused and keeps doing what she's doing, she'll be a medal contender at the Olympics. Holley's year to really, really shine could be 2016."

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Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20120307/holley-mangold-olympian/#ixzz1oUKCJj3T
 
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Olympic weightlifter Holley Mangold is living large and loving it
The 5-foot-9, 350-pound lifter has an oversized personality to match her body and is trying to become the first U.S. woman to win a medal in weightlifting since 2000.
May 18, 2012|By Kevin Baxter

DALLAS -- Everything about Holley Mangold is oversized.

Her personality. Her laugh. Her ambition.

But the first thing most people notice is her body, which, at 5 feet 9 and 350 pounds, is hard to miss.

"I'm huge," Mangold says with pride, not political correctness. "I love my body. I think it's perfect.

"I don't know what my personality would be like if I wasn't so huge."

She has a pretty good idea what her athletic career would be like, though. And it wouldn't include a trip to the Olympic Games this summer.

In the small Ohio town where she grew up ? with an emphasis on the word "grew" ? Mangold tried 10 sports, from roller skating and gymnastics to football and swimming, all with some success. But it wasn't until 31/2 years ago, when she turned to weightlifting, that something clicked.

Now she's going to London with the hope of becoming the first U.S. woman to win a medal in weightlifting since 2000, when the sport debuted.

"I have a ton of work to do. But I feel that I can make bronze," she says enthusiastically.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/18/sports/la-sp-oly-weighlifting-holley-mangold-20120521

Mangold turns down trip to cheer on his sister during Jets? camp

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JamURBMckfI"]Mangold ready to step out of the shadows - YouTube[/ame]
 
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