ADFPF Board of Directors

Mike began weightlifting at a young age as a means to improve his strength for wrestling (he wrestled for 12 years). His mentor, Dick Connors, asked him to join the Pit Powerlifting team at age 14. He has lifted competitively for 34+ years. Mike has won several titles and set many National and American records. He has always competed and lifted for the Pit Powerlifting Team in Evansville, IN. His various titles include:

1984 USPF Teenage National Champion

1986 USPF Teenage National – 3rd Place

1987 USPF Teenage Nationals – Runner up

1987 ADFPA Teenage National Champion

1987 APF Teenage National Champion

1987 WPC Teenage & Junior World Champion (Best Lifter)

1995, 1996 ADFPA Men’s Open National Championships – Runner up

2007 ADFPF National Champion (Best Lifter)

2008 USAPL RAW Nationals – 3rd Place

2008 WDFPF World Master Champion (3rd place overall)

2009 WDFPF World Master Champion (2nd place overall)

2009, 2010 ADFPF National Champion

2011 ADFPF National Runner Up

2013 WDFPF World Master Champion

2014 ADFPF National – 3rd Place

2015 ADFPF National Champion (Best Lifter)

2016 ADFPF National Champion

Mike is an International certified referee. He has 5 children (3 of which are successful lifters in their own right). He has both a BS and MS degree in Engineering from Purdue University and owns an Engineering Consulting firm. His hobbies include most outdoor activities (especially hunting), coaching, and powerlifting.

COMING SOON

Tim has been coaching lifters and teaching exercise science courses for over 25 years. His areas of expertise include sports performance, powerlifting, weightlifting, and personal training for special populations. As a professor, he has been involved in conducting dozens of research studies related to strength training, performance assessment, sports psychology, and adult learning. His coaching successes have included numerous powerlifters who have competed and set countless records in the ADFPF and WDFPF. As a weightlifting coach, he has coached lifters at the national level, spanning school-age to senior nationals. He is a current masters competitor in both weightlifting and powerlifting.

COMING SOON

Dr. Caleb Corrigan is a community pharmacist practicing in western Illinois.  He originally became involved with the ADFPF after learning of the Salvation Army Lifting Team’s gym providing free fitness and powerlifting training to the community, and he has continued to become more involved in recognition of the contribution SALT’s coaches make both to the sport of powerlifting and to the community in which they reside.  Caleb eventually took the position of Drug Testing Officer in late 2023 in order to continue to support the ADFPF’s mission of drug-free competition on a national level.

Whitney Piper is a Doctor of Physical Therapy student at University of Wisconsin – Madison. She has a bachelor’s degree in exercise science from Western Illinois University. She began lifting when she was ten years old and has had a passion for it ever since. She has been competing for the last 13 years in the USAWA, ADFPF, and WDFPF. Whitney has competed in multiple national and world competitions and holds many National, American, and World records. She has been coaching athletes at the Salvation Army alongside Tim Piper for the last 5 years. She has also been a member of the Salvation Army Lifting Team (SALT) since she began competing in 2010. Whitney was the youngest person ever to become a national referee in the ADFPF at the age of 16.

Dave Mansfield practices as an outpatient Orthopedics Physical Therapist in Southeastern Massachusetts with a specialty in Sports Medicine. He is also a strength and conditioning coach (CSCS through the NSCA) and a Health and Fitness Specialist (ACSM). He has written a number of training and injury prevention journal articles over the years, as well. . In addition, Dave is a Graston Technique certified clinician and is an Instructor for Graston Technique. Powerlifting has been a passion for many years, with a number of American, National, and World Master’s records to his credit with several federations. Dedication to the BIG IRON Powerlifting Team from East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, which continues to send lifters to compete at local, regional, National, and World events, gets him up and out to the gym in the early morning hours. In addition, Big Iron Fitness & Rehab. LLC partners with the Bay State Athletic Club to sponsor, promote and organize many meets in the Northeast and as far South as Virginia (in partnership with Virginia Powerlifting) as well as ADFPF National and WDFPF World competitions. Dave is an International Level Official with the WDFPF (as well as with a number of other organizations) and serves on the substance testing and enforcement committee of the WDFPF.

When asked about the whys and wherefores of his interest in the sport of powerlifting, Dave will say that goal setting, organizing training sessions and cycles and periodizing training for injury prevention and competition success give him a sense of accomplishment, and seeing his training partners succeed and bringing new lifters into the “fold” is reward enough. Behind all that, the real truth is: “I love to train with weights, and always have, ever since my folks told me way back when I was in Junior High that “weight lifting will stunt your growth .”Being of a contrary and competitive nature, he moved on to success in football, track and field, and later racquetball and softball but always sought refuge and satisfaction with the weights, and so eventually to a passion for Powerlifting. A great deal of that success has been realized through and with the support of “my beautiful wife Ramona, who plans most of the trips, helps with whatever needs doing, consoles me on the bad days, and celebrates the good…but mostly keeps life’s 

 perspectives adjusted”.

“Growing the ADFPF and providing our lifters with quality venues, consistent officiating, and robust and fair competitions where they are able to test themselves against their peers at  Local, National and World meets are my goals for and reasons for my involvement with The Federation”.