For most first-year engineering students, adjusting to college life away from home is challenging enough.
For Ahwatukee native Vaughn Watson, it also meant losing 30 pounds, maintaining a strict diet, training daily — and stepping onto a bodybuilding stage for the first time.
“I did a five-month prep for the show,” Watson said. “But I’ve been consistently lifting for about five years overall.”
That preparation paid off this spring, when the 19-year-old Purdue University student placed third in his division (5’10” and under) at the inaugural “Purdue Pete Physique” bodybuilding competition recently…