The Beefcake Bonanza of Wawasee

I was unable to find any beefcake photos from Macomb, Illinois, but one of my searches revealed an embarrassment of riches for someplace called Wawasee.

1. Wrestling, swimming, track, miscellaneous athletes  doing pushups on balls.







2. Google images, Facebook, twitter, tumblr, instagram, team members' personal web pages.















3. Individuals, pairs, and teams.













4. An action shot with an extra-tight singlet and straining muscles.








5. Someone's memory of a day on the lake a generation ago.














6. A Facebook post from 2013 wondering why there is no powerlifting team in Wawasee, and vowing to start one.

Afte last night's deprivation in beefcake, I'm going to keep going.   I won't even stop at 10.


Where is this Wawasee?  I'm guessing Wisconsin.

More after the break











Surprise!  It's not a town, it's a high school in Syracuse, Indiana, 25 miles west of Rome City, where we used to visit my Aunt Nora.  Like Rome City, it's on a lake (actually two, Syracuse and Wawasee, renamed from Turkey). and it's primarily a resort where rich people from Chicago build summer homes.


Other than the lakes, I don't see much of interest: a downtown full of fast-food restaurants, a liquor store called Beef's Booze Barn,  No museums. It's not on the list of "21 best small towns in Indiana."  But South Bend, with Notre Dame and the best gay bar in the state, is only 40 miles away.






7. I might stay home and go to a wrestling match instead.







Wawasee was a Miami chief who gave his name to both the lake and the high school.  It has an enrolllment of only 962, which makes the plethora of photos more surprising.

8. Revealing wrestling singlets and non-revealing sweat pants.















9.  A yellow-ribbon winner with yellow hair and abs.















10.  A chunk who won first place.













11.  A blond who rated a shirtless cover photo in the Mail-Journal



















12.  Wawasee: The gift that keeps on giving