By Ron Lane
With the completion of what can only be described as the best year ever in the clubs history, Conroy’s Impact Amateur Boxing Academy while competing at both National and International levels gave us what can only be described as a year to remember.
With the New Year now well under way the team at Impact Academy (Home of the Young Guns) is indeed very busy. As we go to press Taylah Robinson our Commonwealth Games representative is undergoing three months of intensive training at the AIS Canberra; this is in preparation for the Games.
Also with her is our Youth World Boxing Championship bronze medalist Ella Boot. Ella who was invited to attend for the duration of the camp is in attendance to help prepare the Australian team for the Games. During this period both girls will travel to the Philippines where they will train with the National Team doing two three week blocks.
Again on the invitation of Boxing Australia, Impacts owner/coach Mark Evans will, in February, attend a training session in the Philippines as a facilitator for one of the training sessions. Also in February an Impact Club team which will include some invited members from other clubs, will fly to New Zealand for a Trans-Tasman Clash with Kiwi club teams in Auckland. The tournament which will be contested on 17th and 18th will see some 16 boxers in all taking part. We wish them well.
