Castlemilk’s Lucas Ewan has been chosen to characterize Scotland on the GB Tri-Nations Schoolboy Boxing Championships in Dundee subsequent month.
Ewan, 12, who trains at Durie’s Boxing Gymnasium in Rutherglen, goes into the occasion within the 52kg class, having impressed in trials and assessments on the Boxing Scotland Excessive Efficiency Centre in Glasgow in latest weeks.
The younger fighter has had six bouts so far, successful 4 of them, and has taken the 50kg Scottish Novice and Western District titles in these.
Delighted membership coach Archie Durie mentioned: “Younger Lucas offers it 100 per cent within the fitness center, by no means takes his foot off the pedal.
“He’s all the time working exhausting, and I put his identify ahead for these GB assessments, figuring out simply how exhausting an occasion these are. I labored with the Scotland staff for six years, and I labored many GB occasions.
“There are some actually good, high boys he'll come up towards, however Lucas has that one thing particular in his angle to coaching, and his boxing as a complete.”
Archie now hopes that Lucas might be the newest in an extended line of children from the membership to succeed on the Championships.
He added: “Our Rutherglen membership has had three completely different boxers win the GBs – Jonlee Joyce received them twice, Vicky Glover received them as soon as with us and Shahzman Parnez received them twice.
“Lucas will try and be the fourth Rutherglen boxer to elevate the best home honour in newbie boxing, and I actually really feel that he might be quantity 4.”
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