BOXING Scotland Performance Director and Joint National Coach Craig McEvoy has said that a new golden dawn has risen for Scottish boxing.
McEvoy, along with fellow coaches Mike Keane and Stephen Simmons, helped to oversee Scotland’s most successful ever Commonwealth Games, with three Gold and two Bronze medals won in Birmingham.
The National Coach ripped up the old plan for Elite boxers in Scotland following the disappointment of the Games in Gold Coast, Australia four years ago, when two Bronze medals were won, and created a new strategy in the Performance Pathway Programme.
That programme has paid dividends massively, with our second largest medal haul at a Commonwealth Games for 52 years adding to an already historic 12 months, which saw Sam Hickey become our first medal winner at the European Championships in 16 years and Reese Lynch become our first medallist ever at a World Championships.
Scotland also collected a huge haul of 18 Gold medals across all age groups at the GB Championships earlier this year, as the next generation of Scottish boxers show tremendous promise.
“I am just absolutely delighted,” said Craig, as Light-Welterweight Reese Lynch, Middleweight Sam Hickey and Light-Heavyweight Sean Lazzerini became Commonwealth champions, to add to the Bronze medals won by Bantamweight Matthew McHale and Welterweight Tyler Jolly.
“Moments like this and days like this are priceless.
“Number one it is the boxers, they are the ones that have went and fought hard.
“But clubs, club coaches, Boxing Scotland and the programme and the team that I have got around me have also led to this success.
“It is a new chapter in Scottish boxing, the Performance Programme is going to go from strength to strength from the Pathway all the way up.
“Look at the Juniors and Youths at the British Championships this year.
“I am telling you right now, we are going to be a force to be reckoned with and this is just the start of it.”
