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08/11/2007
University team are raring to go
Portsmouth University Boxing Squad are looking forwards to the University Championships in Sheffield next month, with 14 entrants hoping to prove their mettle against the country's best university boxing talent.
Last season seven boxers from the team grabbed an impressive stash of medals at their first ever BUSA championships, including three gold and a silver. The addition of ex-Navy boxer Jimmy Earls as assistant coach has been integral to the team's development and they are hoping to further their success by cleaning up at the forthcoming championships.
Now in its second season, the team boasts two southern county finalists and a national quarter-finalist, as well as gold and one silver medals picked up in Denmark. They remain undefeated in all home events displaying a complete whitewash victory on the last show back in April 07. A warm-up show on 20 November will involve Cambridge, Oxford and Southampton universities, along with Portsmouth's dance club and cheerleading squad.
Last year's light heavyweight BUSA champion Dan Hendy
Coach Wayne Gardiner said: "The team atmosphere and mindset this year is superb. I am expecting to have a good weekend in Sheffield at an event that may start to get the publicity it deserves."
The ABAE English Universities Championship will take place in Sheffield on 7th, 8th and 9th of December 2007 and representatives will then compete in the British Universities Boxing Championship, also in Sheffield, in March 2008, as part of the BUSA British Universities Championships, which will include more than twenty sports. The boxing championships will be integral to the games, and one of the centrepiece events of the overall sports championships, with Scottish, Welsh and Irish university boxers also competing in what will be the most high-profile boxing event ever in British higher education.
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