Friday, September 07, 2007

Mary Flowers -Undisputed Champ of Leo Youth Boxing!



Mary Flowers participates in Leo High School's Annual Veterans Observance on the Friday before Veterans Day since its inception. Joining Veterans and all public service employees for this annual event, Mary Flowers Illinois 31st District Representative and member of the Education Committee has come to know the young men of Leo High School. Boxing at Leo High School has helped many young men become succesful not only in the square ring but in life.

Last year Mary Flowers sponsored a grant to expand Leo High School's Boxing Program to include Academic mentoring and guidance. Kids hit the 30 work-out stations, spar, paddles, speed & heavy bags, jump rope, mirror box and then hit the books and work-out with calculators and poetry by Claude McKay.

Leo High School Boxing Coach Mike Joyce directed the expansion of the Leo Boxing Facilty and Leo President Bob Foster directed the development of the Academic and Mentoring Program.

Leo High School works closely with Illinois Crime Commission Director Jerry Elsner's Police Athletic League and will serve as a major site for upcoming Olympic and World Boxing Programs in the next few months. This is all made possible because of a pretty and tough girl from the neighborhood - Illinois Representative Mary Flowers (D)!



Leo Grads - Thomas Hayes ( in Leo Black) works over Leo Grad and St. Xavier University Footballer Marquis Ball wearing the girdle.



Thomas Hayes, a Pro heavyweight ( 26 -1 -0) will fight ranked boxer Chris Arreola (21-19-0)on September 21st in Palm Springs California.





Leo Coach Mike Joyce and Thomas Hayes Paddle Spar in a recent workout.





Hayes pounds the Heavy Bag












Chicago Tribune Sports Editor and the absolute best prose writer in Sport, Dan McGrath asks Mike Joyce about the upcoming Hayes/Arreola fight, but mostly about the 70 Leo Men who particiapte in Mary Flowers' sponsorship of this great program - it has three rules - Mike Joyce's Rules:

1- Work Hard
2- Believe in Yourself
3- Work Hard

Thank You Mary Flowers! You are the Undisputed Champion of Leo Boxing!
Thomas Hayes - Leo High School Class of 1999:
boxer: Thomas Hayes
Global ID 145378
sex male
birth date 1981-03-16
age 26
division heavyweight
rating 232 / 1102
nationality United States
residence Chicago, Illinois, United States
stance orthodox
height 5′ 11″
US ID IL029527
won 26 (KO 18) + lost 1 (KO 1) + drawn 0 = 27

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Rep. Flowers helped our successful campaign to get Illinois enactment of the MacBride Principles for Fair Employment in Northern Ireland in 1989. Is this the same Rep. Flowers? The Rep. Flowers in the above photo appears too young to be the same person.

pathickey said...

That's the Girl, Chris!

Years served: 1985 - Present

Committee assignments: Health Care Availability Access (Chairperson); Committee of the Whole; Human Services; Approp-Elementary & Secondary Educ; International Trade & Commerce; Fee-For-Service Initiatives; KidCare Subcommittee.

Biography: Full-time state legislator; born July 31, 1951, in Inverness, MS; attended Kennedy King Community College; University of Illinois-Chicago Circle; received 1993 "Legislator of the Year" award from Illinois Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Association; married (husband, Daniel Coutee), has one daughter (Makeda).

Be Go Maith Anoise!

Pat

Anonymous said...

I'm on the Board of the the UMAR Youth and Boxing Program in Baltimore, and we are trying to do what Leo Youth Boxing does. Boxing is the draw to get the kids to us but academics is the goal. Our motto is the same as our website: www.nohooks beforebooks.org
As a 501(c)(3) we are looking to get grants but our hope is to be involved with the area's public schools. We have a program that could bring boxing back and in so doing, teach confidance, courge, respect, self discipline and all the virtues necessary for achieving academic plus personal goals among our youth.
We appreciate your prayers and your advice with this enterprise in Baltimore.

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