There’s strength in those vegetables!
April 25th, 2008 by admin
If there was an award for vegetarian athlete of the year, we’d nominate Morgan Kain. The senior weightlifter at Port Orange’s Spruce Creek High School was ranked No. 1 in the state this year in the 154-pound division. At last weekend’s state championships in Daytona Beach, he bench-pressed 280 pounds and completed a clean and jerk of 275, but unfortunately came in a close second place to Will Jones from Niceville High School.
Morgan has been a vegetarian his entire life. “By the time I was old enough to realize there was something in my diet that I didn’t have I just didn’t really want it,” he explained in an article in the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Morgan described how his diet has been a source of discussion throughout high school, “I get protein from a lot of sources. You can do it without eating meat. There’s lots of variety,” Kain said. “People say, ‘You must just eat salad and fruit’ and it’s not like that at all.”
And if his animal-friendly diet wasn’t enough, Morgan has a 4.36 grade-point average and academic scholarship offers from two major universities. Congratulations Morgan!