White, from Sturminster Newton in Dorset, will compete in the flyweight 51kg class and is among 14 boxers selected for England who are all making their competition debut.<\/p>\n
For many of Britain’s biggest boxing stars, the Commonwealth Games has proved a major stepping stone in their career, with Nicola Adams and Lauren Price among those to have clinched gold in recent editions – two people White takes inspiration from. <\/p>\n
“This is the very beginning of my worldwide career journey as an elite,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I want to follow in the same footsteps as Nicola Adams and Lauren Price, all those big names who have been training in the GB setup like I am.<\/p>\n
“I want to come back with gold from the Commonwealth’s and then the next step is the the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.”<\/p>\n
White’s first fight is on Monday (18:30 BST) against South Africa’s Thandolwethu Mathiba and she admits she will likely be “very nervous” when she steps into the SEC Arena for the first time.<\/p>\n
“I’m just going to take it one day at a time and I know I’m meant to be there,” she said.<\/p>\n
“All the training’s been done, the hard work’s been done in the gym I just need to perform and put on a good display of boxing.”<\/p>\n
That being said, the teenager is relishing the prospect that her form coming into the Commonwealth Games had made her a target for others.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t lost since I was 11 and every time I step in that ring I know that my opponent wants to take my unbeaten record from me,” White said.<\/p>\n
“It’s a lot of pressure but in know that means I care.”<\/p>\n
She added: “I get in that ring each time and think me and my opponent both want that victory, both want to win and both want to do well but I want it more.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White, from Sturminster Newton in Dorset, will compete in the flyweight 51kg class and is among 14 boxers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-712001","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\/712001","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=712001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}