Boxing as a sport has been deemed a male sport due to the legal brutality one can inflict on the other. But over the years, many have come to understand the beauty and sportsmanship it brings.
Women have shyed away from the sport because they saw it to be violent until the dawn of explanation across the globe.
29photostudio in addition to promoting boxing has also added to promote women in boxing after signing one of the rising stars to its brand.
Sarah Apew is a Ghanaian born from the Oti Region in a family of four(4). After completing Worawora Senior High School in the Oti Region, Sarah developed the desire to box but being the second and last daughter of her parents, it was a hurdle to battle.
Sarah is one of Ghana’s finest female boxers in the National Amature team; the Black Bombers. Her tenacity and ferociousness was spotted by Twenty-Nine Photo Studio, a firm specialised in boxing photography.
Sarah trains with Sea View Boxing Club at James Town in the Greater Accra Region in the care of Coach Randy. Her inclusion in the National team, the Black Bombers, has made her focused on joining the team to next year’s Commonwealth games in the United Kingdom and also looking forward to the African games as well as qualifying to the Olympic Games in the near future.
As many sports persons enjoy their quite time enjoying the serenity of nature, Sarah enjoys her quite time with her family and also helps her mother at her restaurant.
Sarah wore her first boxing gloves at the age of 18 though she had loved the sport at a tender age. Her passion for boxing boosted after watching Claressa Shields, the only boxer in history, female or male, to hold all four major world titles in boxing – WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO simultaneously, in two weight divisions. Sarah then promised to be great for her motherland, Ghana.
With many eyes watching her growth in the sport, Sarah has been signed as ‘The Face of Twenty-Nine Photo Studio’ (29PhotoStudio), a photography firm based in Accra-Ghana. Whiles many focus on the purse, Sarah is not in a rush to sign onto a-managerial firm, but yearn to step-up her game to become the best and first female boxer to become an undisputed world champion for her country Ghana.
Photo credit: 29photostudio (DeMessenger)
Written by: Nana Kojo Sakyie Eduafo-Quansah