Tag: boxing
Golden Girl; female boxing team from Metropolitan Police attends a Amateur...
This year I attended the annual Golden Girl Amateur Boxing Tournament in Borås, Sweden, with a small female team from the Metropolitan Police.
We secured...
“My Experience Coaching for Sport Relief”
A month ago I was approached by England Boxing and asked if I would take over the training of one of the celebrities for...
This Girl Can Box
At the end of last year I attended an all-female boxing show ‘This Girl Can Box!’ at Tottenham Community Sports Centre, London. The event,...
#Commonwealth Games; Shara Romer first female coach named on an Australian...
Mother-of-two Shara Romer has broken through the male dominated sport of boxing to be the first female coach named on an Australian Commonwealth Games...
Battle of the Badges – Putting on a show with the...
Last Friday saw the Metropolitan Police host their annual dinner show and this year our opponents flew across the pond from the Big Apple. ...
My Experience of a Major Championship: Haringey Box Cup
Haringey Box Cup is the biggest open boxing tournament in Europe with over 500 boxers from across the world taking part. Bouts are fought...
Women in Amateur Boxing: Referee Hilary Lissenden
One of the things I want to do as part of these blog posts is focus on some of the women who make a...
Showing the ropes to The Thin Blue Line; My Experience Leading...
The Lafone Cup is the annual Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Amateur Boxing Championship. London’s police officers are split into five areas who battle it...
The Sweet Science; my journey as a boxing coach in England
As this is my first blog for the Female Coaching Network (well, in fact ever – so please bear with me) I thought I...
OLYMPIC COACH PROFILE; Maarit Teuronen – Boxing (Finland)
As recently as the early 1990s, boxing gyms were bastions of masculinity where few women would tread. Slowly but surely, female boxers broke down those...