The young San Bernardino athlete is now an eight-time boxing national champion and just qualified for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for boxing. His coach Ian Franklin thinks the sky's the limit.
Wearing a red T-shirt with white cursive 'Terrible' across the front, 19-year-old Terry Washington turned out to be not so terrible after all.Washington's life story up to this point is partially told by his coach, as he's watched the boy evolve into a young man while in his Project Fighting Chance program over the past 11 years.
'In the first 30 seconds he was too much for them, so I stopped it, put another one in there and same thing happened and after the third one I said, 'okay go work out' I gotta figure out something to deal with this tornado,' Franklin said. Washington attributes his fighting spirit partially to the toughness of San Bernardino. 'It's not easy to grow up around here. You gotta have tough skin.
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