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Fitness Atlantic was another two-day event at Mohegan Sun Resort Casino and Shaun T LIVE was now called, “ShaunTervention” and the large workout hosted 1004 attendees for the motivational workout. This show featured some great winners with Kayla Ferenc in Bikini and Transformation, Stephanie Mercurio, Vanessa Spence, Nikki Thomas and Allie Esposito.

A large move for Fitness Atlantic in 2015 to move to Mohegan Sun Resort Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut for the 2nd largest show ever. Over 200 contestants entered and this show sold out a week in advance. This year was the introduction of the new Transformation Division! Transformation was a large hit and the female winners Keri Dyer and Sara Fadziewicz won Diva Fitness.  Shaun T LIVE was held on Sunday and had 960 attendees for the massive workout and motivational talks.  Status Fitness Magazine editor Rodney Jang now comes to the event yearly to talk to contestants about fitness modeling, photo shoots and being published.

Fitness Atlantic makes the big move to the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, Connecticut. This was also the first fitness celebrity workout featuring the creator of P90X Tony Horton. Lori Ann Marchese won Diva Bikini along with Madelana Dos Santos getting WBFF Pro cards. Vince DelMonte a popular fitness role model entered Male Fitness model and placed 5th. This was a big step up from East Haven and the production of the event was much better than before.

In this final year at East Haven Performing Arts Fitness Atlantic teamed with the WBFF sanction out of Canada. Tiffany Tillinger Larson and Brittany Coutu became the first WBFF Pros in the United States. This was the last year for women’s fitness routines and female bodybuilding. This was the first World Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation event in America. Today WBFF stands for World Beauty Fitness and Fashion.

This Fitness Atlantic was again at East Haven Performing Arts and this was the largest Fitness Atlantic to date with 250 contestants. The show ran from prelims to finals as one long show. This was the year the women took over! Lindsay Messina showed up to win Bikini and after that was on every fitness magazine cover. A total of 97 female contestants so even though there were more men in the show it was the most women compared to other physique events. This was also the year we introduced male fitness model and Lou Santiago won the men’s overall.

This Fitness Atlantic was moved to East Haven Performing Arts Center at East Haven Connecticut and in a way was a good move. The Palace Theatre had something special about it being downtown New Haven yet East Haven had much more room backstage and was more modern and updated. This was a year the female divisions really started to match the male divisions. There was a total of 63 women in Bikini and Fitness and plus 8 female bodybuilders for 71 female contestants. Hugh Ross won the overall men’s divisions.