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Brothers: Felling and Jefferson look to qualify for Olympic trials

Nevada Sage Brush | October 20, 2015

Related Topics: United States Olympic Trials (track and field), Nevada, Sparring, Pound (mass), Boxing

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Henry MacDiarmid/Nevada Sagebrush Garrett Felling (left) and Pat Jefferson (right) train at the Nevada boxing gym on Fourth Street on Monday, Oct. 19. Jefferson and Felling have been working together to prepare for the Olympic qualifiers in Memphis, Tennessee starting on Oct. 26.

By Neil Patrick Healy

Garrett Felling walked into the Nevada boxing gym on Fourth Street over three years ago with a broken right wrist, no boxing experience and no sense of direction in his life. Now he is the two-time 185-pound national champion, has a career record of 14-0 and is successfully working toward his geological engineering degree.

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