Christy Halbert, Ph.D. the Director of
Boxing Resource Center. Dr. Halbert has used her background as an
academic in sociology and a collegiate athlete, to take a
multi-disciplinary approach to coaching and studying the sport of
boxing.
Halbert became the first researcher to publish on the social experiences
of women professional boxers in her article "Tough Enough and Woman
Enough." Her book, The Ultimate Boxer, was written in an effort to make
Olympic-style boxing skills and tactics accessible to all audiences. Dr.
Halbert continues to research the sport, and regularly gives multi-media
lectures on the "Debut of Women's Olympic Boxing," a socio-historical
analysis from her perspective as researcher and participant.
Her coaching work has been devoted mainly to three areas: coaching
boxers at Boxing Resource Center, coaching and developing women's
Olympic boxing in the United States, and coaching girls and women in
international development programs.
In 2011, Dr. Halbert received the United States Olympic Committee's
Olympic Torch award, for her pioneering work in the development and
advancement of women's Olympic boxing in the United States. Coach
Halbert is recognized internationally as an expert on women’s boxing,
and became the first U.S. coach, and only woman coach, to serve as
instructor for the International Federation's Road to Dream program,
which gives training and World Championship opportunities to boxers in
under-represented countries
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Last summer Coach Halbert served as an Olympic Coach for Team USA at
what was the inaugural Olympic Games for women boxers (and the first
Olympic Games in which women athletes participated in every sport). The
three women boxers for Team USA brought home a gold and bronze medal.
Just 11 years earlier, Halbert served as Head Coach for the first-ever
World Championships for women boxers.
In 2013 Halbert was awarded the Guiding Women in Sport Award by the
National Association for Girls and Women in Sport, given in recognition
of extraordinary service and leadership in female sports, demonstrating
a pioneering spirit and commitment to improve sport for girls and women.
Christy Halbert coaches women and men, boys and girls, in the art and
science of Olympic-style (amateur) boxing. She conducts courses in
coaching Olympic-style boxing, in her role as a Level IV Coach with USA
Boxing, and is an international instructor/coach with boxing's
International Federation, in her role as a 3-Star Coach/Instructor. She
holds administrative appointments as Chair of USA Boxing’s Women's Task
Force, Chair of the Americas' Boxing Confederation Women’s Commission,
and Secretary of the International Federation’s Women’s Commission.
Halbert has published and presented on
coaching techniques as well as her ongoing research and observations in
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