Region One Champion

Gwendolyn grew up in the Barima River area of the North West District in Guyana, the twentieth child in a family of 21 kids. She says she owes her toughness in the ring to long hours spent doing hard work on her parents’ farm at an early age. Her father, who was from St. Lucia, died when she was five. She had also had to fight her way through school, so as not to be taken advantage of by boys. “One day I say, (the) boys ain’t beating me no more. I’m gonna beat them.” She said that many times when a fight broke out, by the time the teacher arrived to break it up, it was all over!