Her comments come following a recent report by UK Coaching, which found that the number of female coaches across all levels of sport had fallen to 38% in 2024.<\/p>\n
Suzanne explained that coaching a male-dominated sport “comes with a lot of weight, for allowing other people to follow you”.<\/p>\n
“You have to be so good that they can’t doubt you – there’s not this grey area, you really have to shine to make your mark.”<\/p>\n
“That comes with pressure and understanding, but it also comes with great responsibility and a real sense of power as well, so you have to use it wisely,” she said.<\/p>\n
The boxing coach recently finished her treatment for breast cancer and is now receiving preventative medication.<\/p>\n
“I was intending to take quite a bit of time off, but the mindset probably came back quicker than I should have,” she said of her return to the corner.<\/p>\n
“I’m a mum, I’ve got a full time career as well – but boxing is your safe space, it’s your consistent.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Her comments come following a recent report by UK Coaching, which found that the number of female coaches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-437799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}