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By Jake Donovan - Jamel Herring looks to return Team USA to its winning ways in the 2012 London Games. The Long Island boxer represents the U.S. in the light welterweight division, hoping to turn things around after watching fellow New Yorker Marcus Browne drop a heartbreaking verdict to Damien Hooper of Australia in Monday’s competition.
The loss was the first suffered by the U.S. squad after having won its first four matches.
The 26-year old Herring – whose family lives in Coram – is the first fighter from the Marines to make the U.S. Olympic squad since Sergio Reyes some 20 years ago. The last Long Island boxer to make the Olympics was Howard Davis, Jr, who won the Val Barker trophy for best boxer in the 1976 Summer Games while serving on the all-star team fielded by the U.S. that year. [Click Here To Read More]
The loss was the first suffered by the U.S. squad after having won its first four matches.
The 26-year old Herring – whose family lives in Coram – is the first fighter from the Marines to make the U.S. Olympic squad since Sergio Reyes some 20 years ago. The last Long Island boxer to make the Olympics was Howard Davis, Jr, who won the Val Barker trophy for best boxer in the 1976 Summer Games while serving on the all-star team fielded by the U.S. that year. [Click Here To Read More]
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