COLORADO SPRINGS, كولو (تشرين الثاني 30, 2017) – Team USA women’s boxing hopefuls will be competing in the prestigious USA Women’s Elite National Championships, ديسمبر 5-9, في سولت ليك سيتي, يوتا.

This year’s field is stacked with talent, بما فيه 2016 Olympic Trials Champion فرجينيا فوكس (Kemah, تكساس), who will be looking to close out an impressive 2017 year that included four international titles and an undefeated 16-0 سجل, and two-time World Champion and 2014 Youth Olympic Champion Jajaira Gonzalez (نافورة, كولو.)

Other top contenders include featherweight كريستينا كروز (نيويورك, N.Y.), وزن خفيف رشيدة اليس (لين, MA), as well as middleweight نعومي جراهام (كولورادو سبرينغز, CO) ووزن الوسط أوشي جونز (توليدو, أوهايو)

Following a year of highly-competitive national events, the best U.S. female amateur boxers are set to compete in the 2017 USA Boxing Elite National Championship. With up to six spots in each division already secured, based on the results of the 2016 بطولات النخبة الوطنية, 2017 Elite Western Qualifier and 2017 Elite Eastern Qualifier, the remaining spots have been filled based on the wild-card application process to complete the field of elite boxers.

ما مجموعه 88 boxers applied for a wild card qualification with 35 allocations awarded to finalize the Elite National Championships brackets.

“With this being the first year of the new elite athlete selection process, we are excited to see the top talent in the country compete to represent Team USA in 2018,” قال Matt Johnson, USA Boxing High Performance Director. “We are looking forward to a high level of competition during these championships, and are confident that the increased competitiveness at the national stage will translate to further improvement of USA’s performance internationally on the road to Tokyo in 2020.”

Below is the final list of elite boxers, in order of ranking, who will contend for the title of national champion: