Tami Love Carswell was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. As a young athelete she competed in Track and Field placing in state long distance runs. Tami started training in boxing at King's boxing gym in Oakland, California alongside tough professional boxers like Andre Ward. After falling in love with boxing she became a Certified USA Amateur Boxing Coach and Certified Boxing Fitness Trainer so she could share "The Sweet Science" with her students. Tami has had the opportunity to train with 8-time world champion and now boxing trainer Ann Wolfe in Austin Texas. While managing a mixed martial arts gym and boxing program in Tallahassee, Tami was inspired to train as an MMA fighter. She placed 2nd in 2009 at a NAGA event in Florida. Her interest in MMA has led her to become a coach for a women’s MMA and self defense program at Tallahassee Combat Sports. She still enjoys running and preparing indviduals to run in marathons as the Program Director of the Jeff Galloway Tallahassee program. As a part of Team Jackson's women's MMA, she is doing what it takes to make a name for herself and all women in the sport. The goal is to use her "dogged determination" to make a big impact in women's MMA now and down the road. She is a sponsored fighter and spokeswoman for Boom Superfoods. In the partnership with Boom Superfoods she hopes to influence others to feed their inner warrior in mind, body, and spirit. When Tami is not training. she is managing other fight careers, interviewing other professional mixed martial artists, and sharing her enthusiasm for pugilism by covering fights on Wfighter.com and PROMMANOW.com.
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