TAMUC Nursing Student Enjoying Second Life After Championship Boxing Career

Former two-time world champion boxer and current A&M-Commerce nursing student Kaliesha West-Hoke was recently inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame.

A woman with boxing gloves hanging from her shoulders poses with a man as both jokingly display fists for the camera.
(Kaliesha West-Hoke with A&M-Commerce President Mark Rudin. Photo by Tyler Holloway | Texas A&M University-Commerce Office of Marketing and Communications)

West-Hoke is the subject of a feature article published by the Herald-Banner in Greenville, Texas. She retired from boxing in 2018 to become a business owner and is now working toward her bachelor's degree in nursing at A&M-Commerce, studying pathophysiology, pharmacology and gerontology.

A woman with boxing gloves hanging from her shoulders poses with a man as both jokingly feign chin punches to each other.
(Kaliesha West-Hoke with A&M-Commerce President Mark Rudin. Photo by Tyler Holloway | Texas A&M University-Commerce Office of Marketing and Communications)

“I like where I am at,” she said in the article. “I like my school. The professors make it enjoyable to want to go to school. I love learning new things.”

Read the full article at the Herald-Banner website.

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