\n Layla Young, 17, who studies in sixth form at Prestatyn High School, was crowned champion at the England Boxing Women\u2019s Winter Box Cup in Leigh on Sunday (December 7).\n<\/p>\n
\n This came only weeks after she secured the England Boxing National Development Championship title in Kettering.\n<\/p>\n
\n The weekend\u2019s tournament saw Layla represent the Merseyside and Cheshire squad; in Saturday\u2019s (December 6) semi-final, she forced the referee to stop the contest in the second round after her opponent was deemed unable to continue.\n<\/p>\n
\n Cheered on by her mum, grandad and sister, Layla advanced to Sunday\u2019s final, where she saw off her opponent from Southampton after a fight which went to the judges\u2019 score card.\n<\/p>\n
\n Layla is a member of West Wirral Club Amateur Boxing Club, and also coaches herself at Denbighshire Taekwondo Academy in Prestatyn.\n<\/p>\n
\n She is a 2nd Dan Black Belt in taekwondo.\n<\/p>\n
\n Her father, Paul said: \u201cLayla has been doing sport from a very young age, and has also represented. Her dream is to go to the Olympics.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI\u2019m just very proud of her. She doesn\u2019t stop training, and is always trying to better herself. She\u2019s been like that since she was about six years old. She\u2019s non-stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Layla Young, 17, who studies in sixth form at Prestatyn High School, was crowned champion at the England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-334161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}