There are two areas where the Academy can always use your help.

First is COACHING. If you have an interest or experience in boxing or teaching physical fitness we would like to talk with you about joining our coaching staff. Coach Al Simpson will mentor you in our methods of coaching boys and girls ages 10 to 18. Like our boxers, we need your dedication. Therefore, ideally a coach would commit to two or more evenings a week from 5:45 to 7:30. Those that can only make a set night a week may be pooled with another coach.

Second is FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS. The Charlotte Boxing Academy is a non-profit North Carolina Corporation with a 501©3 designation from the Internal Revenue Service. We are supported by the public. We receive donations from individuals, companies, corporations, churches, charities, and foundations. Our annual budget is currently $30,000. This covers training expenses and travel. If you are interested in supporting our program, please fill out the contribution form and send us your gift by check or money order.

Click here to fill out the contribution form.

For more information on how to help, call Ned Pollack
or Al Simpson at (704) 372-0140.

Coach Simpson
Al Simpson spent 16 of his 24 years in the Army coaching and molding some of the nation's top boxers. Now Simpson, who has been an assistant coach on two Olympic teams and the head coach of a U.S. team traveling to the Ukraine, is shaping kids at the Charlotte Boxing Academy.

Simpson has coached more than 100 national champions, and four U.S. boxers who won gold in 1988 were under his tutelage when he was the head assistant coach.

However, the opportunity to work with young kids after his retirement from the Army seemed perfect for Simpson.

"I love working with kids," Simpson said. "To be able to develop them through as a kid, as a teen as a young adult and as an adult is making them productive as a person, as well as an athlete, in society. With some kids, it's easy to develop them as an athlete, but the social aspect that goes along with it is more the work part."