Pricey USA Boxing Members,

USA Boxing appreciates the USA Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) for conducting its Compliance Overview and thanks the members of our boxing group who shared their experiences and views. Your enter helps us higher perceive the place we have to enhance and the way we will higher serve you.

The USOPC started this overview of our grievance and governance practices on April 25, 2025, after members of our group raised issues about our grievance course of. It later expanded the overview to incorporate conflicts of curiosity and the Board’s oversight of the group. The overview concluded that USA Boxing has not totally met its obligations in three areas: sustaining honest and well timed grievance procedures, managing conflicts of curiosity, and demonstrating the managerial functionality to supervise our sport. We settle for these findings. We view this overview as a possibility to be taught, strengthen accountability, and enhance the group for our members.

On grievances, our grievance course of was not all the time totally documented, and the fallacious burden of proof was utilized in particular grievances. From time to time, events additionally had restricted alternative to current proof at Judicial Committee hearings. To the members who raised these issues, thanks for talking up. We remorse that our course of fell brief, and we’re dedicated to creating it honest for each member. On conflicts of curiosity, our written coverage meets USOPC necessities, however we didn’t all the time take the extra steps wanted to handle precise and potential conflicts in particular conditions. On oversight, the overview discovered a breakdown within the relationship and communication between the Government Director and the Board of Administrators. Efficient oversight will depend on each, and each are answerable for fixing it.

We’ve already begun implementing a number of of the USOPC’s necessities and proposals. Our priorities are to make sure that grievances are dealt with promptly and pretty, with clear procedures and a significant alternative for members to be heard; strengthen the disclosure and administration of conflicts of curiosity; and enhance communication between the Government Director and the Board whereas strengthening the Board’s oversight of administration.

Our shared dedication to Olympic-style boxing, our boxers, and USA Boxing supplies a powerful basis for the work forward. USA Boxing will proceed working cooperatively with the USOPC to meet the overview’s necessities and tackle its suggestions. The Board will oversee implementation of required reforms and adopted suggestions, and the USOPC will proceed monitoring our progress.

Our focus stays on supporting boxers, coaches, officers, physicians, golf equipment, and volunteers, from native gyms to worldwide competitions. Robust governance and honest, constant processes are important to that mission.

Thanks in your dedication to USA Boxing and for serving to us construct a stronger, extra accountable group.

Chris Trombetta
Chair, on behalf of the USA Boxing Board of Administrators

To view USOPC Group Report, click on HERE.