By Eric Woodyard | ewoodyar@mlive.com View full sizeRyan Garza | MLive.com Claressa Shields talks with the press after returning home to Flint at Bishop International Airport in May after qualifying for a spot on the first-ever women's boxing team at…
By Eric Woodyard | ewoodyar@mlive.com Aliah Scroggins (center), looks at the Middle Weight Championship trophy that Flint's amateur boxer Claressa Shields (right) won during the 2012 US Olympic Team Trials for women's boxing after Shields returned to…
By Eric Woodyard | ewoodyar@mlive.com View full size(AP Photo/Jed Conklin)Claressa Shields, left, and Tika Hemingway battle during a middleweight boxing match at the US Olympic women's boxing team trials on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. Shields won…
By Eric Woodyard | ewoodyar@mlive.com Enlarge Ryan Garza | rgarza1@mlive.com Ryan Garza | MLive.com Local boxer Claressa Shields, 17, of Flint, takes a phone call on the front steps of her father's home in Flint before preparing to go to her Sadie…