Talk about a blast from the past.... Chris Cormier was one of the first people I met when I moved to Palm Springs back in the mid-eighties. We both worked as trainers at the Wise Palm Desert Athletic Club and we worked together at one of the local "family" owned nightclubs too.
He had won Teen Nationals not too long before I met him and was clearly going someplace in the bodybuilding game. I'm pretty sure he was also playing football for the College of the Desert at the time.
LOL... I spent a few years away from lifting in the late 80's/ early 90's and my first day back in the gym , while reading Flex magazine and warming up on a bike before a leg workout, there he was up on the Olympia stage. Pretty impressive.