{"id":18143,"date":"2019-09-11T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18143"},"modified":"2019-09-19T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:19:57","slug":"camosun-business-student-pursues-boxing-dream-outside-of-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/09\/11\/camosun-business-student-pursues-boxing-dream-outside-of-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun Business student pursues boxing dream outside of classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of us haven\u2019t figured ourselves out yet. Most of us have an idea in mind about some dream or another that we would like to fulfill, and most of us kind of wing it every day in hopes that someday we might get a chance to do chase the dream.<\/p>\n

Bryan Colwell has taken a few steps beyond just hoping. Colwell is a second-year Camosun Business student who has realized his dreams and is living them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Colwell started boxing professionally in 2013, and is now the two-time Canadian champion in his weight class, 91 kilograms. He won the 91 kg gold in the 2019 Copa Independencia, an annual Dominican tournament, as well the BC Golden Gloves and Oregon State Golden Gloves in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got 40 national fights in, and it\u2019s been pretty good,\u201d says Colwell. \u201cI\u2019ve been blessed with a lot of support on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Second-year Camosun Business student Bryan Colwell is chasing his boxing dreams (photo by Lee Milliken).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Colwell was originally a soccer player and started boxing as a way to get in shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a soccer player, because I was always an athlete. I was a very good soccer player. But I was a terrible teammate. I will admit that. I demand perfection from myself, and I demanded it from my teammates as well. When my teammates didn\u2019t perform with perfection\u2014what I thought was perfection\u2014then I was such a… I was a terrible teammate,\u201d Colwell laughs. \u201cNow, with boxing, you\u2019re your own teammate. Everything is what you put into it\u2014there is no other factors you can blame.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colwell realizes that boxing isn\u2019t a forever sport but says that his boxing is just the beginning of his ring-related work.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext year I will be 30 years old, and that is pretty old for boxing,\u201d says Colwell. \u201cIt\u2019s just the way it is. So, the question is, do I chase another Olympic dream\u2014do I get two medals? Or do I turn pro? Whether amateur or pro, there\u2019s ways to monetize with sponsorships and things. I already coach boxing on the side, and that can always supplement my income a little bit.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Colwell says that this is where his education at Camosun will come in handy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to open up my own gym eventually; I want my own brand and my own company. That\u2019s why I\u2019m going to business school,\u201d he says. \u201cThe first year of business school isn\u2019t really anything special; it\u2019s really all about groundwork, and I\u2019m still only halfway through my second year. But I\u2019m still able to use a lot of what I\u2019ve learned at Camosun; a lot of it translated immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colwell\u2019s family has also been able to enjoy his success and has been able to let him know that he is supported when he\u2019s pursuing his dreams.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy younger sister and even my grandma will all call around to make sure everyone is watching me,\u201d says Colwell. \u201cThe Pan Am games especially, because there was so much media coverage. All you had to do was flip on your TV. That was the most family messages I have ever gotten. I knew everyone across the country was watching, because everyone sent me a message about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colwell says that he is looking forward to his future, whatever it may hold.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a successful run, and that\u2019s why I know I want to box until I\u2019m 40,\u201d says Colwell. \u201cMaybe Olympics, maybe pro career, but what I would really like is to have my own gym, my own brand. I very much want to create and become my own brand… All the stuff I have learned in my Business degree, I am just trying to put it into place.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of us haven\u2019t figured ourselves out yet. Most of us have an idea in mind about some dream or another that we would like to fulfill, and most of us kind of wing it every day in hopes that someday we might get a chance to do chase the dream. Bryan Colwell has taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-september-11-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18145,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18143\/revisions\/18145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}