{"id":37006,"date":"2015-09-16T10:56:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=37006"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:58:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:58:02","slug":"lehigh-acres-boxer-tiara-brown-qualifies-for-olympic-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2015\/09\/lehigh-acres-boxer-tiara-brown-qualifies-for-olympic-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres Boxer Tiara Brown<br> Qualifies For Olympic Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37007\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37007\" title=\"Tiara brown\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Tiara-brown-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Tiara-brown-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Tiara-brown-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Tiara-brown.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiara Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lehigh Acres resident and amateur boxer Tiara Brown hopes to have her passport stamped in\u00a0Rio de Janeiro\u00a0next summer as Lee County\u2019s first female competitor in an Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, a 2006\u00a0Fort Myers High School\u00a0graduate and resident of\u00a0Lehigh Acres, has qualified for the Olympic Trials on Thursday with a semifinal victory in the Pathway to Glory Olympic Trials Qualifier II for Women at the\u00a0Baltimore Harbor Hotel in Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Brown further solidified her status as a boxer to beat when she defeated Samantha Kinchen of\u00a0Lexington, Kentucky, by a 2-1 decision in the 132-pound weight class championship at the qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, a three-time national champion in the 125-pound weight class, Brown has been adjusting to boxing at 132 pounds, the closest weight class to her in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic Trials take place Oct. 26-31 in Memphis, Tennessee, at the Memphis Cook\u00a0Convention Center. There will be 24 athletes, eight in each division.\u00a0 Only the winners in each of the\u00a0three women\u2019s weight divisions (112, 132\u00a0and 165 pounds) are eligible for the Olympic Games, which take place Aug. 5-21 next year.<\/p>\n<p>The trials have a double-elimination format. Should Brown continue advancing to the title bout, she will have had five to six matches over the six days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Acres resident and amateur boxer Tiara Brown hopes to have her passport stamped in\u00a0Rio de Janeiro\u00a0next summer as Lee County\u2019s first female competitor in an Olympics. Brown, a 2006\u00a0Fort&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}