Mark Teachout - Founder
Began training in amateur boxing at the age of five, and at the age of ten began competing in tournaments and other competitions. By the age of thirteen, won several state championships, a mid-western regional championship and a Silver Gloves National championship.
At age fifteen, after winning
four national titles including a National Junior Olympics gold medal
and a second National Silver Gloves title during which he was voted
most outstanding boxer, he was selected to box against the Irish
National team in Dublin, Ireland. 
He was then chosen as an elite boxer by 1996 Olympic head coach Al Mitchell and the U.S. Olympic committee to train and live at the U.S. Olympic training and education center in Marquette, Michigan. Later chosen by Coach Joe Byrd, who would become the 1992 U.S. Olympic Head Coach to box out of his stable. After placing in the National Golden Gloves and earning a silver medal in the Junior World nationals by the age of seventeen, he ended his amateur boxing career to pursue other interests with an approximate record of 75 wins and 12 losses.