Connor Dantzler

Connor Dantzler, born on 23 February 1994, is an American former youth amateur athlete from Damascus, Maryland. Trained by his father Mark Dantzler, he won his first junior national title in his age bracket in 2000 at the age of six. By 2012 he had won United States national championship titles in judo, jujitsu and powerlifting, and had earned AAU All-America honours and an Athlete of the Year award. In 2010, at sixteen, he took world and Pan-American gold medals in powerlifting, and in 2011 he set an American record for his age category at the Collegiate Powerlifting National Championships while still in high school. He received the Joel Ferrell Memorial Award for outstanding performance at the AAU Junior Olympic Games in 2010, was featured in the Sports Illustrated column Faces in the Crowd at age ten, and appeared on ABC's The Tony Danza Show in 2005.