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USA Boxing announces Duke Ragan & Virginia Fuchs 2017 Under Armour Elite Boxers of the Year

COLORADO SPRINGS, Lap. (April 5, 2018 — USA Boxing has announced that Duke Ragan (Cincinnati, OH) och Virginia Fuchs (Kemah, TX) have been named 2017 Under Armour Elite Boxers of the Year. They are leading contenders to represent Team USA at the 2020 OS i Japan.
Förra året, the 20-year-old Ragan used his stiff jab and ring intelligence to make a major statement in the ring for the first time in International competition. The slick bantamweight (123 Ibs.) captured gold at his initial International tournament, the Chemistry Cup in Halle, Tyskland, before he clinched a ticket to his first World Championships, by way of his bronze-medal winning performance at the 2017 Continental Championships in Honduras.
Ragan’s third International medal of 2017 came at the 2017 Elite Men’s World Championships, where he won a silver medal, marking the highest placing for an American bantamweight at that prestigious tournament since 1999.
Fuchs, 30, had a perfect 18-0 record in 2017, Inklusive 15 unanimous decision victories and one by RSC (referee stopped contest). Highlighted by winning top honors in the flyweight division (112 Ibs.) vid 2017 USA Elite National Championships at Salt Lake City, Utah, Virginia also won at the Balkan Tournament, Continental Championships, Feliks Stamm Tournament, and Strandja Tournament. She won gold at all four International tournaments she entered.
A winner at the 2016 Olympic Trials, Fuchs graduated from Louisiana State University in 2011 with a degree in Kinesiology.
Below is a complete list of USA Boxing’s 2017 Under Armour Boxer of the Year award winners:
2017 Under Armour Boxer of the Year Awards
Elite Male – Duke Ragan (Cincinnati, OH)
Elite FemaleVirginia Fuchs (Kemah, TX)
Youth Male – Angel Martinez (Rockford, IL)
Youth Female – Citlalli Ortiz (Coachella, SÅSOM)
Junior MaleDante Benjamin (Shaker Heights, OH)
Junior FemaleGabriela Fundora (Coachella, SÅSOM)
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Citlalli Ortiz vinner weltervikt Youth VM titel

Isamary Aquino tar hem Bronsmedalj

Guwahati, Indien (November 26, 2017) — Coachella, California-native Citlalli Ortiz avvecklas hennes imponerande 2017 Kvinnor ungdom VM kampanj med en seger delad beslut över Rysslands Nataliya Sychugova att ta sin första stora internationella titel i Guwahati, Indien.
“Idag känns som en av de bästa dagarna i mitt liv,” uppgav Ortiz efter hennes seger. “Efter kampen, Jag tvivlade själv, men jag är väldigt glad att jag drog ut vinsten och det känns fantastiskt att vara världsmästare.”
Ortiz guld stänger en stark visning från den unga amerikanska delegationen. Team USA: s andra medalj, en brons, vanns i går genom Isamary Aquino av Universal City, Texas.
“Jag är oerhört stolt över min prestation på min första internationella turnering,” sade Aquino efter hennes medaljceremoni. “Det var en ära att få representera Team USA och ta hem en VM-medalj.”
De kvarvarande medlemmarna i teamet ingår: Aidyl Cardenas (Calexico, Calif.),Diana Estrada (Hillsboro, Oregon), Heaven Garcia (Mt., Calif.), Roma Martinez (Ödmjuka, Texas), Sharahaya Moreu (Albuquerque, N.M.) och Amy Salinas(Las Cruces, N.M).
Årets ungdoms VM fört 160 av världens främsta ungdom kvinnliga boxare från 36 olika länder tävlar om en av de 10 världen titlar står på spel. Huvudtränare billy Walsh (Colorado Springs, Colo.) och assisterande tränare Koroma (Colorado Springs, Colo.) och Jeff Mays (San Antonio, Texas) guidad Team USA under dessa mästerskap. Boxare och personal USA Boxing börjar sin resa tillbaka hem till USA i morgon.
Team USA Resultat:
69 kg: Citlalli Ortiz, Coachella, Calif./USA, december. över Nataliy Sychugova / RUS, 3-2
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Citlalli Ortiz Grabs First Win of Women’s Youth World Championships

Team USA finishes 1-1 on second day; six Americans to enter ring today
Guwahati, Indien (November. 21, 2017) — Day two of the 2017 Women’s Youth World Championships in Guwahati, India brought two members of Team USA into the ring looking to advance one step closer to a world title.
Weltervikt Citlalli Ortiz (Coachella, Calif.) grabbed Team USA’s first win of the championships with a split decision victory over Nadezhda Ryabets of Kazakhstan. She will return to the ring on Onsdag, November. 22 for a quarterfinals match-up against
The second American in today’s field, mellanvikt Sharahya Moreu (Albuquerque, N.M.), fell short of taking the judges card over Russian Anastasiia Shamonova.
I morgon the remaining six members of Team USA will make their tournament debut, Inklusive 2015 Junior World Champion Heaven Garcia (Mt., Calif.) The other five boxers will all be making their international debuts.
Huvudtränare billy Walsh (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Koroma (Colorado Springs, Colo.) och Jeff Mays (San Antonio, Texas) are guiding the American delegation in India. This year’s tournament has brought 160 boxers from 31 different countries looking to take one of the ten World titles up for grabs.
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Team USA Resultat:
69 kg: Citlalli Ortiz, Coachella, Calif./USA december. over Nadezhda Ryabets/KAZ, 4-1
75 kg: Anastasiia Shamonova/RUS dec. över Sharahaya Moreu, Albuquerque, N.M./USA, 5-0
Tomorrow’s Schema
48 kg: Amy Salinas, Las Cruces, N.M./USA vs.Gloria D’almeida/FRA
51 kg: Heaven Garcia, Mt., Calif./USA vs. Chaewon Kim/KOR
54 kg: Isamary Aquino, Universal City, Texas/USA vs. Kateryna Rohova/UKR
57 kg: Roma Martinez, Ödmjuka, Texas/USA vs. Emily Mauermann/GER
60 kg: Diana Estrada, Hillsboro, Oregon/USA vs. Fatia Benmessahel/FRA
64 kg: Aidyl Cardenas, Calexico, Calif./USA vs. Khongorzul Batbold/MGL
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