BRETT McGinty has been confirmed as the Team Captain of the Northern Ireland Boxing Team for the Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa.
The 16-year-old St Johnston man (second from right above) has been selected as the captain by the squad’s Head Coach, John Conlan.
The five-man squad has completed a two-week training camp in the Australian Centre of Excellence in Canberra and have moved to Apia, the Samoan capital, where the Games get underway on Saturday.
McGinty is a six-time Irish champion who won a bronze medal at the 2012 European Schoolboy Championship in Russia.
He will compete at 69kgs in Samoa.
His selection had caused a stir after he was chosen ahead of Lewis Crocker, whose club, Holy Trinity ABC, called for a box-off between the punchers.
However, McGinty kept his counsel and is gunning for gold in Samoa.
Before his departure, he told Donegal Sport Hub: “I’m not going to get another chance at this. I was too young for the last one and I’ll be too old for the next one. I need to grasp this with both hands.”
The squad also includes Stephen McKenna (Old School), James McGivern (St. George’s), Tiernan Bradley (Sacred Heart, Omagh) and Aidan Walsh (Holy Family).
