She placed first and qualified for both USS and NAS Nationals.

She was raised along with her older brother, Richard, and younger sister in Atlanta, Georgia, by their mother.

She was a Texian university choir member and was traveling to Durango when she met Richard and Charitys father.

Although they were in love, their marriage had many problems, and the children would spend most of their time outside to avoid hearing arguments.

When Charity was nine years old, their father interrupted her and Richard while playing Nintendo; he said goodbye and asked that they never forget that he loves them.

Charitys mothers strength to keep everything together despite the challenging circumstances hugely helped Charity build her own tenacity.

During this time, Charity was not speaking to her brother, Richard, and was instead focusing on caring for her younger sister.

During this time, she was drugged and raped, but its not known by whom.

Not long afterwards, she ran away to Canada and got a job at a wedding venue that doubled as a bed and breakfast establishment.

In only a year, she was promoted to manager thanks to her work ethic and motivation, but then suffered a heart attack while at work.

I came to, drove myself to hospital, got several tests and scans, and it came back that I had had atrial fibrillation.

Essentially, the cardiologist wanted to schedule me for pacemaker surgery.

She was terrified at the concept of such a massive operation, so before agreeing to it, she sought a second opinion, the second doctor telling her that she was abusing her body by working 80 hours a week, and not getting enough sleep.

The heart is a muscle, and it needs to be (taken care of); it was an awakening, and it was a turning point for me to quit my job and become a US Masters swimmer.

She was also diagnosed with scoliosis, presumably from when she was thrown from a horse in her childhood.

In her interview with the Gwinnett Daily Post, she said that swimming helped her control her heart, because it helps expand lung capacity and control breathing.

From there, she moved on to lifting weights to help her swim better, but once she began powerlifting, she fell in love with it.

On her first try at powerlifting, she was able to lift 275lbs (124.7kg), and knew it was meant for her.

She also began doing endurance training, cross-training, and yoga.

She added that it was rewarding to follow her passion and ignore the negative comments her family shared.

She set an American Powerlifting Committee (APC) record in the squat of 280lbs (127kgs), a deadlift of 345lbs (156.49kgs), and a bench press of 170lbs (77.11kgs).

Not only did she set a new record, but she was also the first female in APC history to win the overall best lifter title.

She later set another two new APC Nationals world records; in the 165.35lbs (75kg) weight class, she did a 385lbs (174.63kg) deadlift and a 396lbs (179.62kg) squat.

At the gym she attended, she befriended four competitive strongmen who encouraged her to train as a strong woman.

She found it difficult at first, but by 2016 she was competing in her first strongwoman competition at the Lee Haney Games.

Charity Witt Biography