Colorado Spring, ပြေးလမ်း. (သြဂုတ်လ 8, 2019) – Boxing coachEd Weichers, a charter member of the USA Boxing Alumni Association, guided the United States Air Force Academy from 1976-2014 to a record of 19 national collegiate boxing team championships.

Coach Weichers’ Fighting Falcons’ squads produced a remarkable 258 All-America boxers and 97 individual champions. His teams never finished lower than second in the nation for 27 years and he also served as president and vice president of the National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA).

Coaching sports at a military school is much different, largely because student-athletes in most cases, အထူးသဖြင့်လက်ဝှေ့, are not professional prospects. “Our Cadets were not trained to be elite level amateurs or pros,” the now 68-year-old Weichers explained. “In 1976, the cost to put one Cadet through four years at the Academy was $80,000 ဒါပေမဲ့, တွင် 2014, the year of my retirement, that figure was $417,000. Cadets are trained to go forward and serve. They fly, တိုကျပှဲ, win and defend freedoms that we all enjoy. Boxing at the next level is not part of the discussion. I got calls at the time about our boxers going to the next level, fighting in Tough Man Contests, etc. My answer is and has always been consistent: ‘You are not trained to be a boxer in the Air Force. Do not jeopardize your pilot qualifications or commission ability with a boxing injury.’ The Air Force has an investment in them, and I urged them to go forward and serve. I send them back to the real purpose of the boxing class/program at AFA. It teaches them how to handle press, stress, fear and anxiety. Boxing gives them the self confidence and self esteem to make good decisions in combat under pressure. The ability to handle these pressures and make good decisions are the difference in life and death in combat.”

Coach Weichers, ဟုတ်ပါတယ်, attributes a large share of his success to the Cadets, who are intelligent, disciplined and team oriented. All Cadets take a mandatory core curriculum boxing course (10 lessons) their freshman year, followed by an intramural boxing program comprised of 40 squadron teams with a minimum of eight to a maximum of 16 boxers per team.

Not only did Weichers work with this incredible feeder system, the next step was the AFA Wing Open Boxing Championships, in which Cadets voluntarily signed-up to compete in one of 12 divisions to box for the No. 1 spot, earning a roster spot on the AFA Intercollegiate boxing team that competes in regional and national tournaments. The advancing 12 Cadets represented the entire Air Force Academy.

“Bottom line,’ Coach Weichers noted, “this formula was a perfect storm. I must give credit to and thank two Physical Education Department heads, ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး. Don Peterson နှင့်ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး. Larry Fariss, and two athletic directors who were instrumental to our support and success, ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး. John Clune နှင့်ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး. Randy Spetman.

“I was blessed with young men who I describe as overachievers. Cadets are tenacious. We built on an individual sport with a team concept. I had great assistant coaches, the best training facilities, and an environment of being surrounded by quality people in all phases.”

After he retired as head boxing coach at the Air Force Academy, Weichers led Team USA in 2014 နှင့် 2015 to five medals, including two golds, at the Pan American Games in Toronto.

“The plan was to hire Billy Walsh, who was the head coach of Team Ireland,” Weichers added. “I committed to sponsor Coach Walsh upon his arrival and make his transition smooth. I did that and Coach Walsh and I have become good friends. He is the correct man for the job, and he brings a great resume and reputation. He has helped turn the program around and created a winning culture. Team USA is back, ranked among the top 10 ကမ္ဘာပေါ်မှာ, and that is a direct result of Coach Walsh.”

ယူအက်စ်အေလက်ဝှေ့ Alumni အစည်းအရုံး

ရာသက်ပန်ချန်ပီယံမှဖန်တီးခဲ့သည်, USA Boxing နှင့်၎င်း၏ကျောင်းသားဟောင်းများအကြားနှစ် ဦး နှစ်ဖက်အကျိုးရှိသောဆက်ဆံရေး, –Boxer, တာဝန်ရှိသူများ, နည်းပြများနှင့်လက်ဝှေ့ပရိသတ်တွေ — ချန်ပီယံများ၏ Alumni အစည်းအရုံးချိတ်ဆက်စဉ်မြေးဆက်, ဖှယျနှင့်အမေရိကန်နိုင်ငံလက်ဝှေ့ရဲ့အနာဂတ်လက်ဝှေ့ချန်ပီယံပြန်ပေးခြင်း, လက်စွပ်အတွက်ထွက်.

USA Boxing Alumni Association သည်လက်ဝှေ့ထိုးချင်သူများနှင့်အပျော်တမ်းလက်ဝှေ့သမားများနှင့်အဆက်အသွယ်ပြုလိုသူတိုင်းအတွက်ပွင့်လင်းသည်။ ကျောင်းသားများသည် Alumni အသင်းမှစီစဉ်သောအထူးအစီအစဉ်များကို ၀ င်ရောက်ခွင့်ပြုသည်, ၎င်း၏နှစ်ပတ်လည်ယူအက်စ်လက်ဝှေ့ Alumni အစည်းအရုံး Fame ၏ reception ည့်ခံအပါအဝငျ.

အဆိုပါ Alumni အစည်းအရုံး join ဖို့, ရိုးရှင်းစွာမှာ registeralumni@usaboxing.org တစ်ဘို့ $40.00 တစ်နှစ်အဖွဲ့ဝင်ကြေးနှုန်း။ နယူးအင်္ဂါများကို T-ရှပ်အင်္ကျီကိုလက်ခံရရှိဦးမည်, keychain နှင့် e-ပိုက်ဆံအိတ်.

Weichers joined the USA Boxing Alumni Association because he is a huge supporter ofJohn Brown, former President and current Vice President of USA Boxing.

“John had the idea or concept (to form the alumni association) and I looked at the purpose and thought it would be a way to honor and recognize those who contributed over the years,” Weichers remarked. “I hope that successful professionals from the past and present recognize those who contributed over the years. I also hope that they remember their roots were with USA Boxing and give back. We all had help and our start and success did not happen alone. Be humble and grateful and give back.”

Weichers is high on Team USA, especially its overall potential in the 2020 Olympic Games in Japan, ဟုဆို, “We’re solid going into 2020. The key to success, ကျွန်တော့်ထင်မြင်ချက်အရ, is head coach Billy Walsh. He is very experienced. His reputation and resume are top shelf. Coach Walsh is well known and respected on the international level. He has the ability to reach out to other countries and make positive things happen for our athletes. He has adjusted the culture in our boxing program, identifying our strengths, and making adjustment where weak. Coach Walsh brings leadership and credibility. Bottom line, we have the right coach for the job in place.”

Weichers’ association with the NCBA led to his relationship with USA Boxing at various levels and capacities. He has always felt gratified to give back to boxing, as well as an obligation to grow the sport at every level.

“I was lucky/blessed to work in a place I refer to as Camelot,” Weichers concluded. “It’s an athletic paradise; core values, honor code, and a mission that anyone can connect with and admire. I can say that I am a better person for my experience at the Air Force Academy.

“I love the sport of boxing, because of what it did for me, in terms of molding my life. The gratification that comes with seeing how young men and women grow and mature, as a result of their experience with boxing was very positive.

And countless Cadets are better people because they were coached by Ed Weichers.

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