Yueh-Chun Chang (b. 1970) was a competitive powerlifter from 1989 to 1998. During her powerlifting career, Chang won five national and three world championships and set five world records. In 1995, the U.S. Powerlifting Federation named her Best Lifter. As a child, Chang participated in the SCATS program, Seattle Public School’s child acrobatic demonstration team, developed by Sue and Bud Turner at Sanisli Elementary School. She was a gymnast and sprinter at Ballard High School before discovering powerlifting.

In 1993, Yueh-Chun Chang was training at the Gateway Athletic Club, under owner and coach Willie Austin. This photo shows Chang and Austin (partners at the time) taking a walk.

Willie Austin was a UW Husky running back, and a national and world champion powerlifter. He opened his owning training facilities, where he coached many powerlifting champions, and became a well-respected strength coach and personal trainer. In 1988 Austin founded the Gym of Seattle, in 1992 he founded the Gateway Athletic Club, and in 2004 he founded the Now Is Fitness Center. An advocate for physical fitness and drug-free living, in 1994, Austin started the first Youth & Fitness program to provide area youth with free health education and fitness training. In 1997, he co-founded the Austin Foundation to continue and expand the program’s commitment to the wellbeing and development of area youth. As of 2021, the Austin Foundation continues to run fitness programs at community centers and in schools throughout the Seattle/King County area.

Caption information source: Movers And Shapers -- Twenty Local People Who Have Influenced The Fitness World by Molly Martin, Seattle Times, June 7, 1998. Retrieved at https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/date=19980607&slug=2754728
Caption information source: Austin Foundation website at http://www.willieaustinfoundation.org/