{{Short description|American bodybuilder (born 1973)}} {{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} [[Image:Elena Seiple.jpg|thumb|Seiple throwing up a front double biceps pose at the NPC Juniors in 2005]] thumb|Seiple displaying a rear double biceps '''Elena Seiple''' (born December 17, 1973) is an American bodybuilder and strongwoman.
Seiple was born in Harmony Township, New Jersey. A gifted athlete from childhood, she excelled in swimming (specifically, in the breast stroke), basketball, soccer, and track. While attending a private Christian school in Pennsylvania, she competed in men's soccer due to the absence of a women's team.<ref name="elenaseiple.com">[https://web.archive.org/web/20071006135647/http://www.elenaseiple.com/bio.html Elena Seiple]. elenaseiple.com</ref> Her level of play was enough to receive an athletic scholarship from Liberty University and it was during her college years she started weightlifting, drawing inspiration from women like Lenda Murray and Cory Everson.<ref name="elenaseiple.com"/>
She began her bodybuilding career at Gibson's Gym in Washington, New Jersey. She entered a NON-NPC show, the Women's Extravaganza, in 1999 at a weight of 120 lb., placing second in the Middleweight category. Other career highlights include placing 2nd at the NPC Nationals a total of four times and 3rd, three times. She competed in the 2006 World's Strongest Woman, held in Poland, placing 9th at a weight of 142 lb.<ref name="Horne">{{cite web | last = Horne | first = David | title = Strongwoman Results | work = World of Grip | publisher = David Horne | year = 2006 | url = http://www.davidhorne-gripmaster.com/strongwomanresultsinternational.html | accessdate = 2008-01-26}}</ref> Her personal bests are {{Convert|500|lb}} in the squat, {{Convert|315|lb}} in the bench press and {{Convert|475|lb}} in the deadlift.<ref name="AMG">{{cite web | title = Elena Seiple | work = Andy's Muscle Goddesses Lite | date = 2008-01-22 | url = http://www.amg-lite.com/elena_seiple/ | accessdate = 2008-01-26}}</ref>
Seiple is politically conservative and a professed Christian.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071006223844/http://www.elenaseiple.com/journal.html March 22, 2007]. elenaseiple.com</ref> In 2008, she worked as a judge for the NPC and managed the New Jersey NPC website.<ref name="AMG"/>
As of 2022, she was employed as Chief Information Security Officer for IT company SINC.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/accounts/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Ftheelenaseiple%2F%3Fhl%3Den&is_from_rle|title=Instagram|website=www.instagram.com}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Elena Seiple}} *[http://www.elenaseiple.com/ Official site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409213045/http://www.elenaseiple.com/ |date=2008-04-09 }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Seiple, Elena}} Category:1973 births Category:American female bodybuilders Category:American female powerlifters Category:Living people Category:People from Harmony Township, New Jersey Category:Sportspeople from Warren County, New Jersey Category:21st-century American women