Littlewood’s girls’ 14-15 division, which features competitors from the United States, Ireland, Spain, France and Iceland, and other age-group divisions will compete Aug. The field began with hundreds of thousands of athletes in the Open and now has been trimmed to the top 40 men, 40 women, 240 masters athletes, 80 teenage athletes, and 40 teams from around the world. Only the most elite CrossFit athletes can dream of making the world championships, let alone qualify. The CrossFit Games are the pinnacle of the sport, considering itself the ultimate proving ground to find the “Fittest Man and Fittest Woman on Earth.” The CrossFit Games are distinctly known for their incorporation of “unknowable” tests of fitness so athletes cannot train for a specific discipline, but instead must be prepared for any and all possibilities. The 15-year-old Littlewood will enter the CrossFit Games as one of only 10 qualifiers in the girls’ 14-15 year-old division, marking a nearly unthinkable rise after just 18 months participating in CrossFit. That significance will be rivaled next week when Littlewood opens the door to Alliant Energy Center Coliseum in Madison, Wis., the home of the 2022 CrossFit Games. With a moment to reevaluate, Littlewood found a world of possibilities and different athletic outlets, doors waiting to be opened.įew doors have been more important to Littlewood in the last two years than the one she opened at Iron Cross Athletics, Phoenixville’s CrossFit home, and began working with owner John Warnek. That’s when she discovered CrossFit, the exercise regimen blending elements from high-intensity interval training, weightlifting, plyometrics and other exercises that has become a fitness phenomenon in the last 15 years. I needed to work out and stay in shape,” Littlewood said. “With lockdown, obviously we weren’t going to gymnastics, but I can’t do nothing. Roberts High School, whose competitive gymnastics career suddenly paused. That was Reese Littlewood, the then-freshman at Owen J. Littlewood, who trains at Iron Cross Athletics in Phoenixville, went through three rounds of qualification finishing top 10 in the world in the girls’ 14-15 year-old division. Roberts junior, has qualified for the CrossFit Games, set for next week in Madison, Wis. Reese Littlewood, an East Coventry resident and rising Owen J.