Pittsburgh Team 412 Boxer Gets Phone Call to Train for the 2024 Olympics! - KDKA NEWS June 2022

From a small gym on Third Avenue, it was a seemingly normal training day for boxer Sonny Taylor. That was until the phone rang with a surprise caller from the U.S. Air Force World Class Athlete Program telling the hopeful applicant he made it.

"I'm really looking forward to getting some great things out of you, man," the phone call said. "These are the goals that we set out to accomplish and we've accomplished them," said Delbert "Sonny" Taylor. "We have many more goals to accomplish along the way." Going for the gold.

His acceptance means he will now have the opportunity to train for the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

"Sonny is probably the most accomplished amateur boxer in Pittsburgh in the last maybe 40 or 50 years," Coach James Hoy said.

Coach Hoy went on to describe Sonny as one in a million, which makes sense considering he now joins an elite group of only 155 young athletes to ever achieve this accomplishment.

It might be a tough road to Paris, but it's nothing Sonny can't handle. "We're just going to keep working just as hard as we've been working," the newly-minted Olympian said.