While continuing to train one to two hours a day, five days a week, and competing as a member of the Rutgers Powerlifting Club, Naomi Kutin is completing her undergraduate degree and studying for her master’s degree at Rutgers’ School of Social Work.
Barely 9 years old and tipping the scale at a dainty 88 pounds, Naomi Kutin shattered a world record for her weight class in 2011 by squatting 205 pounds – a record formerly held by a 44-year-old German woman.
She would go on to break that record four more times.
Today, in her fourth year at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, the young athlete who earned the moniker “Supergirl” in a PBS documentary on her life maintains her powerlifting skills, but now she’s weighing options in the field of social work as well.
While continuing to train one to two hours a day, five days a week, and competing as a member of the Rutgers Powerlifting Club, Kutin is completing her undergraduate degree and studying for her master's degree at Rutgers’ School of Social Work.
It’s a lot to juggle, the Fair Lawn native acknowledges. What helps her get through is her devotion to Orthodox Judaism – which also makes her an anomaly in the male-dominated world of powerlifting.