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Brittany Tregarthen, center, with coach Dan Canavan and Special Olympics supporter Lt. DJ Clumpner. Tregarthen will represent America in the World Games later this month. Kayla Desroches/KMXT photo
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A young Kodiak woman will be representing Alaska at the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Los Angeles at the end of the month. Brittany Tregarthen, a power-lifter won her class at the state summer games in Anchorage last month.
During those games, she benched 99 pounds, squatted 143 and reached 137 in the deadlift for a combination weight score of 380 pounds.
She’ll be joined by fellow Alaskans CJ Umbs and Christine Quick, who will be competing in aquatics and Garrett Stortz, who will competing in golf. The four are among 491 members of the US Special Olympics Team who will compete against 176 other nations in 25 different sports.
The Special Olympics World Summer Games run from July 25th to August 2nd.
Special Olympics in Alaska serves more than 2,000 athletes in 10 communities around the state through local community training programs.
