Two Livingston Parish student weightlifters earned top honors this summer during competitions, with the local high school student being selected as a member of Team USA at the 2024 Pan-American Youth Championships in Ecuador.

Cameron "CoCo" Comeaux, 12, a seventh grader at Juban Parc Junior High School, received three gold medals in the 44kg weight class for the 13U division of the 2024 USA Weightlifting Nationals in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Comeaux won gold in the snatch, clean and jerk and total weight categories. While only clocking in at 94 pounds, Comeaux snatched 45 kg (100 lbs.) and clean and jerk lifted 56 kg (123 lbs.) to earn top honors.

Brynn Catalano, 14, a ninth grader from Live Oak High School, won the 14-15-year-old Best Lifter Award at the 2024 USA Weightlifting Nationals in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has body weight of 114 pounds and lifted 70 kg (154 lbs.) in the snatch competition and 84 kg (185 lbs.) in the clean and jerk lift.

Catalano is a repeat national champion -- she won the national competition in her age and weight categories in 2019 and 2021, and she is a three-time member of the USA Pan-American Youth Championship Team.

Catalano recently returned as a member of Team USA for the 2024 Pan-American Youth Championships, which were held Aug. 28-Sept. 1 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Team USA sent 28 athletes to compete in the U15 and U17 age-group championships. Catalano was the only team member from Louisiana.