All Sports: Boxing

Robert Couzens: Sport - Boxing. School - Burnaby North
Manny Sobral founded the North Burnaby Boxing Club with a partner in march 2004. Since then the club has grown to 125 members and has won more than 20 championships.
Burnaby's 'Boxing Mountie', Harry Twist, staged a one-man war against juvenile delinquency over his long career as coach of the South Burnaby Boxing Club.
Al Principe is the founding member and President of Swangard Stadium Society, spearheading a campaign that raised more than $3 million for installation of bleachers, are furbished track surface and
How about this for a record: 80 wins, 13 losses. That’s the boxing record of our athlete inductee, Des Archer. Coached by Hall of Fame member, the late Harry Twist,
Valentine James Roche was a Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee who was considered the father of lacrosse in North Burnaby.
Len Walters won the Canadian open bantam weight championship in 1949 and 1952.
During Dale Walters 15 year amateur career he was never beaten by a Canadian Boxer. Further, he never lost an amateur bout on Canadian soil.

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