04.30.2005:Female Bodybuilding in Western Canada

from kamloopsthisweek:

	Dave Eagles/KTW Amanda McDermid, left, Amy Fournier, Lorilee Sweeney, Allyson McLauchlin and Maria Morrone pose with bodybuilder Steve Fur in a 2005 Nissan 350Z in the showroom of their major sponsor, RiverCity Nissan.

By GREG LAYSON
Sports reporter
Apr 29 2005

Lorilee Sweeney wants to make one thing crystal clear: This is not a bikini contest.
The Kamloops fitness fanatic - she's a bodybuilder with 20 years experience - handpicked a four-woman cadre from Kamloops to participate in the Western Canadian Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure Show, which, as she vehemently stressed, is not a knockoff of some spring break hot body contest.
"These girls have been training hard," she said of her team, which takes part in the event Saturday in Kelowna. "They have to have muscularity and an athletic look. It's [an event] more about the shape, symmetry and physical fitness,"
Team Sweeney's Fit Foxes, composed of the tightly-packaged Allyson McLauchlin, Amy Fornier, Amanda McDermid and Maria Marrone, realize that heading into the figure category of the event.