Summary: Rachel Bower is a former National Champion and England representative. After ten years of competing she turned her hand to coaching and has quickly worked her way up to become and England Support Coach while still volunteering with Earlsfield Amateur Boxing Club and the Metropolitan Police Boxing Team. Rachel’s fighting highlights are winning the National Championships at the Echo Arena in Liverpool with the only stoppage of the finals. It was also the first year men and women boxed on the same stage. Her coaching highlights are being selected to train a celebrity for BBC’s Sport Relief and coaching my boyfriend, an Amateur super heavyweight. Rachel teaches and does one on one coaching at 12 Rounds Boxing http://12roundsboxing.co.uk/. She mobilises the Met Police boxing team/coaches to deliver ‘Get Started with Boxing’ with The Princes Trust where we use the sport to teach hard to reach young people valuable life skills https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/help-for-young-people/unlock-your-potential/discover-new-talents. Rachel’s amateur club is Earlsfield ABC http://www.earlsfieldabc.org.uk/. England Boxing our National Governing Body have invested in female boxing and coaching http://www.abae.co.uk. Rachel on Twitter | Instagram For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE. For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is the World’s Largest Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1000+ episodes across 30+ shows and a global audience of over 2 million. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.
