You will need to develop an extensive knowledge of the sport and understand how to prepare a boxer to be. Spending a significant amount of time in the boxing world is perhaps the main qualification you will need if you want to become a boxing manager.
Her appointment comes after a recent run of history-making moves for women in baseball, including Kim Ng's hiring as general manager of the Miami Marlins in 2020 and Bianca Smith becoming the first Black woman to coach in pro baseball last year. A job as a boxing manager's assistant might help provide experience to future boxing managers. She was then hired by the Yankees as a minor-league hitting coach.īalkovec, 34, was a catcher for the softball teams at Creighton and the University of New Mexico.
She went on to become the Houston Astros' Latin American strength and conditioning coordinator, also becoming the first woman to hold that position, before moving into the same role with the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks.Īfter taking time away from American baseball to pursue an additional master's degree in the Netherlands, Balkovec did a fellowship with Driveline Baseball, the Washington-based player development organization. Louis Cardinals minor-league affiliate in 2012. The move makes Balkovec the first female manager in affiliated professional baseball.īalkovec started her pro baseball career as a strength and conditioning coach with a St. Rachel Balkovec, who joined the New York Yankees organization as a hitting coach in 2019, will serve as the manager for the Low-A Tampa Tarpons next season, sources told The Athletic.
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