Thrive Boxing Team, which was founded in 2023, said it helped children and young people build resilience, confidence and a sense of belonging inside and outside of the ring. <\/p>\n
Ms Norfolk, who is its founder and lead coach, got into the sport after experiencing addition.<\/p>\n
She said boxing became the “turning point” and gave her structure, discipline, “and something bigger to fight for”. <\/p>\n
Ms Norfolk, who is also a social worker and manager within child and adolescent mental health services, said the sport allows her to build trusting relationships with her students.<\/p>\n
One young boxer with a history of criminal offences became a part of the club and “changed their life around”, Ms Norfolk said.<\/p>\n
Another one of her students told the BBC: “She is not just a coach she is like a mum as well and it is nice to have her.”<\/p>\n
Ms Norfolk said: “We create a really good culture, we celebrate diversity here, and every single person who walks through the door, who might feel a little bit nervous or uncomfortable, always walks out feeling like a champion.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thrive Boxing Team, which was founded in 2023, said it helped children and young people build resilience, confidence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-255119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}