Who We Are?
Our Mission
We are a weightlifting club filled with all types of people from different ages and backgrounds. Many of our athletes start with no knowledge about weightlifting and build up from scratch. We have two coaches Christopher Smith President of the Metropolitan Local Weightlifting Committee/Association, President of the North East Region for the Presidents Advisory Committee (PAC), International Category 2 Referee and National Coach and Frank Mintz Metropolitan Local Weightlifting Committee/Association Technology Chairman, Safesport Certfied and USA Referee Certfied. Both with 20 years+ of weightlifting experience under their belt.
We inspire anyone who has comments or questions to please contact us through our "Contact Us" menu. We will get back to you as soon as possible as your email will go directly to Christopher Smith.
Metropolitan LWC President / Longisland Weightlifting Club Coach
Christopher Smith
LWC President Christopher Smith has been involved in the sport of weightlifting since 1991. A former nationally competitive athlete in olympic weightlifting as well as track and field and wrestling. Chris is also the USAW President of the North East Region for the Presidents Advisory Committee (PAC), International Category 2 Referee and National Coach. He lives in Levittown, NY and was the MET LWC Team Rep before becoming the president in 1999. Since that time the Met LWC has went from 150 members and 14 teams to over 1000 members and 37 teams.