When Tara Wood’s mom encouraged her to go out for cheerleading in junior high, she tried it for a year and decided she was on the wrong side of the sideline. Tara then demanded, and earned, a spot on a boys’ Pop Warner football team instead.
“I was the worst cheerleader ever,” Tara said. “I was watching the game the whole time. I didn’t cheer at all.”
Later she played volleyball, basketball and softball, and briefly played defensive end with the Pittsburgh Passion in the Independent Women’s Football League. But now Tara is passionately pursuing her career in boxing. Currently she is ranked seventh nationally but she is working hard to be on the 2012 U.S. Olympic women’s boxing team in the 165-pound weight class. Like most women, she started boxing for exercise.
“I was just looking for something to shake up my workouts,” she said.
Tara isn’t just a boxer now, and she doesn’t have a 9-5 that you would typically peg with someone who was a professional boxer. she is a vice president of business administration for xG Technology, a technology company in Sunrise. It will be interesting to see how she does in the upcoming trials.
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