High‑school powerlifting PRs
Local lifters crushed state meets — Leifkarlson posted PRs: 530 lb squat, 325 lb bench, 515 lb deadlift for a 1,370 lb total, and celebrated a state championship post. Southside Maverick senior Ethan Dunn won his weight class and overall at the Arkansas state meet while breaking state records in squat, bench, and deadlift post.
Leif Karlson is listed as a Lennox (S.D.) defensive lineman who announced a commitment to South Dakota State on Feb. 5, 2026. 605sports.com Lennox’s program posted four individual state titles and a 57‑point team total at the meet that weekend, part of a larger team sweep reported by the local Lennox News site. lennoxnews.com Karlson’s competition history appears on OpenPowerlifting, which shows prior state‑level entries for him and a record of sanctioned meet results going back at least to 2024. openpowerlifting.org Southside senior Ethan Dunn is listed on MaxPreps as a Class of 2026 Southside Maverick and also competes in track & field, where he threw 54‑4.75 in the shot put at the Van Buren meet. maxpreps.com Fort Smith/Southside coverage of the Arkansas state meet includes a road‑trip video documenting the Southside lifters’ trip to the state championships and a booster‑club post celebrating the team’s results. youtube.com State record aggregators and federation pages (LiftVault, ArkansasPowerlifting and national record pages) note that record updates require meet director submission and can take time; as of these searches the official Arkansas record listings did not yet reflect newly posted state records. liftvault.com
