After Eight Years, Anikha Greer Is Games-Bound

June 3rd, 2025

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Good morning and welcome to the Morning Chalk Up.

In today’s edition:

  • The “cutline queen” breaks through.

  • What new members actually want from onboarding.

  • Train hard. Give back. Chill on the beach. That’s the Dewey Beach Championship vibe.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
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Deep down, I felt [good], but obviously with my history, I was incredibly nervous that I was going to have messed up something.”

Anikha Greer on her mindset after submitting her In-Affiliate Semifinals videos.
PROFILE

After Eight Years of Almost: Anikha Greer Finally Qualifies for the CrossFit Games

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Anikha Greer had a feeling.

A feeling that after completing this year’s In-Affiliate Semifinals, she had finally done enough to earn her invite to the CrossFit Games – a dream she had been chasing since 2018 when she was a teenager.

Remind Me

Greer was in ninth grade when she first felt the hurt.

The hurt of missing out on qualifying for the CrossFit Games by one spot.

  • Sitting in math class, she watched her name flip from 20th to 21st “about six times in the span of about 15 minutes. And then it flipped to 21st and I’m watching the clock and it just stays there,” Greer told the Morning Chalk Up in 2021 about the first time she missed qualifying for the Games as a teenager in 2018.

By 2021, the then 18-year-old from Prince Edward Island in Canada had grown somewhat accustomed to feeling as if she were almost cursed.

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SPEED READS

🇮🇸🥇 Iceland Annie: The original CrossFit queen, Annie Thorisdottir’s new book, Iceland Annie: The Evolution of a CrossFit Legend, is now available for pre-order.

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🏆🌎 WFP Competitor Divisions Registration Live Now: Open sign-up for teams and duos at the World Fitness Project Tour Stop II in Mesa, AZ, is now live. Get the details here and register now.

🥇📋 Community Cup Workouts Released: If you are planning to take on CrossFit’s Community Cup competition later this month, check out the workouts, just released on Friday, here. Learn more about the event here.

😎 🏆 TYR Cup Update: The Loud and Live team has begun announcing the rosters of the 2025 TYR Cup teams at TYR WZA SoCal, September 19-21. First up, returning captain for Team North America, Pat Vellner.

ICYMI: Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr walked away with the Torian trophy on the back of five event wins and a second-place finish. But will she accept her invitation to the Games? 

MEMBER EXCLUSIVE

Why Most Onboarding Fails – and How to Fix Yours

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You will never convince me that the coach on the floor is not your biggest retention tool. Yet, I've watched hundreds of affiliate owners spend years searching for the "perfect" onboarding system while ignoring the fundamentals that keep members engaged.

  • After over 15 years of owning CrossFit affiliates and coaching hundreds of affiliate owners, I can say this with certainty: there is no perfect onboarding system.

However, there is a framework you can use to create an onboarding process that suits your unique affiliate. And when you get this right, everything else falls into place.

COMMUNITY

A Competition for Good: Dewey Beach Championship Gives Back

Credit: Dewey Beach Championship

It isn’t always the case that a CrossFit competition is held solely for philanthropic reasons, but that has always been the mission of the Dewey Beach Championship.

  • The competition, taking place on June 14, is approaching its 10-year mark. Since the beginning, it has focused on supporting charitable causes, competition coordinator Shane Seery said in an interview with Morning Chalk Up.

The self-proclaimed “fitness competition for good” has never raised less than $35,000 in any given year, and this year they are well exceeding that number, reaching over $75,000, which will benefit Nemours Children’s Health, a not-for-profit children's hospital in Wilmington, DE.

In previous years, the competition hosted by CrossFit Wheelhouse chose different charities and requested donations after teams registered. However, for 2025, Seery and the Dewey Beach Championship (DBC) committee decided that athletes would fundraise first. 

  • “We wouldn't do it if it weren't for charity. So this year we just doubled down on fundraising efforts and asked people to raise a few $100 to register and it worked,” Seery said.

HIGHLIGHTS

Celebrating a PR, hosting a fundraiser, this, that, or otherwise? Send us a tip.

  • 😮Take a look at this monster tempo squat at 182-kilos/400-pounds from Craig Richey.

  • Congratulations on this triple PR session from young Tayah Bebzuck Marom. Well done, Tayah!

  • 🙌Check out this comparison from Agustine Richelme - squat cleaning 95 kilos/209 pounds sure doesn’t look the same anymore!

  • Do you think you can do burpees faster than Aninha? Check that speed!

  • 🔥Here’s what a lifting day looks like for Mattie Rogers - which included a power clean PR at 122 kilos/269 pounds.