Stan McQuay

Name: Stan McQuay
Country: CA, United States
Race: Half Japanese, half Irish bodybuilder
Location: West Coast

I was born July 12, 1973 on a United States Naval base in Japan. My father, who is Irish, was serving in the United States Navy based in Japan where he met and married my beautiful Japanese mother. After I was born we stayed in Japan for about a year from which we migrated to the United States. My father originally lived in Southern Illinois so that’s where we headed. When I was six my mother was pregnant with my younger brother Michael. It was time for us to move out of the small town in Illinois and onto bigger and better things. So, we moved to sunny Southern California!

Adjusting to the different environment wasn’t easy. In elementary school, I felt like an outcast because of my slanted eyes and dark skin. I was occasionally picked on for looking different and that’s when my father decided to enroll me into something that would help toughen me up a bit and boost my self -esteem. I decided that I wanted to play organized football and study Kung Fu. Football and Kung Fu were two things I really learned to love and become very good at. I moved on from Kung Fu and studied many different styles of self-defense. At age 14, I made the high school football team and by that time had achieved many outstanding goals in Martial Arts. Everything was going great until one day I decided to use my fighting skills for the wrong reason and got kicked out of school. I was transferred to a school that at the time was notorious for gangs and violence, and that’s when my life had changed.

High school was quite an experience for me. I met some of the craziest guys around and made many new friends and even a few enemies. By age 16 I had seen and even participated in some of the most random acts of violence. Lets just say that my fighting skills were put to the test. I was caught up in world of gang violence. Getting arrested and harassed by the police was almost a daily ritual. Even though I was getting in trouble so much, I still managed to keep my place on the Varsity Football Squad and even made MVP my senior year. I started to open my eyes and realize that I might be able to do something with football. I was a fast, intelligent player but lacking one thing, size. I weighed 150 lbs my senior year and needed to bulk up if I wanted to hang on the college level, so 24 Hour Fitness Center had become my new stomping grounds.

Lifting weights was something I learned to love very much as I slowly watched my physique change. I had gained enough weight to play on the college level, but playing football wasn’t all that exciting to me anymore. Getting big and muscular was my new goal!

Powerhouse Gym, in Chatsworth, was where I made my new home. I met a few friends who helped guide me and teach me proper ways to lift and to eat. Many people said that I had great potential in the sport of bodybuilding, and they managed to talk me into entering my first bodybuilding competition which was the UNBA Natural Bodybuilding Championships. I didn’t know what to do or even what to expect but I still managed to pull off a 2nd Place finish. I started to see a new outlook on life and began to realize that maybe I do have some potential to make it in this sport. Fighting and getting arrested wasn’t the life for me and bodybuilding had become my new calling. Since then, I have competed in many different natural bodybuilding competitions from the ABA to the Musclemania sanction. I have even competed in many non- steroid tested bodybuilding competitions. I won the NPC Mr. California, Middleweight title and made a top 5 finish at the USA’s, which are both non-tested shows. These competitions showed many people that, yes, building a strong, lean body can be accomplished naturally.

In June of 2000, I competed in one of the biggest shows of my life. It was the Super Body World Championships in which competitors from around the world had come to compete and hopefully achieve their “Pro” status with the Musclemania show. I managed to pull off a victory as the Middleweight and Overall Champion, making me their newest “Pro”. Since then my life has changed dramatically. I get to travel around the world to countries like England, Hungary, Japan, China, Australia and the list goes on. I have appeared and co-hosted on a television program on ESPN called “American Muscle” and have been in countless magazines around the world. All of the exposure has been great, but meeting all the wonderful people around the world has been the best part of bodybuilding.

My goal is to help kids who are going through the same troubled life experiences that I did growing up. I want to help them get off the streets and to teach them that there are alternatives to gang violence and hanging with the wrong crowd. I want to encourage kids to achieve their hopes and dreams and become all they can be.

Never Give Up,
Stan McQuay

COMPETITION HISTORY:

2001
Superbody World Championships
(1st Pro Division)

2000
Musclemania World Championships
(2nd Pro Division)
NPC - USA
(4th Place)
NPC -California State
(1st Place)
Superbody World Championships
(1st Place / Overall Champion)

1999
Musclemania World Championships
(1st Place)
NPC - Ironman
(2nd Place)

1998
Musclemania World Championships
(2nd Place)
NPC - Ironman
(2nd Place)
ABA - California State
(1st Place / Overall Champion)

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