Marathon’s Justice Lee is stacking up iron plates as well as gold medals as she heads into her final season of high school competition. The senior strongwoman opted to hit the AAU circuit instead of taking a break in her offseason, and the results speak for themselves. Lee, a two-time FHSAA state champion in girls weightlifting, added AAU state gold to her collection last fall. On Aug. 23, she added another pair of golds in the Olympic and traditional events at the AAU Florida State Championships in Auburndale. She captured double gold by hitting weights close to her personal bests in each category, despite the start to the FHSAA season being months away. While Lee is an athletic phenom, her relative mine of gold wasn’t earned the easy way; she trains year-round and estimates that out of the last 365 days, she was in the gym for 341. Between visits to the gym to pump iron, Lee will be swinging the irons this fall with the school’s golf team until the winter sports season begins.
