Sheena T Kaine: If The Dream is Big Enough, It’s All Possible

Sheena T Kaine’s dream is to bring a championship belt back to where she grew up, Fishing Lake Metis Settlement, to show kids and young adults that it’s never to late to turn your life around. It’s a special message for the boxer, who as a teenager and young adult struggled with addiction; but later found fitness as a way to counteract her bad habits and leave them behind.

“I want to win the big belt and bring it around to smaller communities, specifically Fishing Lake, because that’s where I’m from; but really any community and show, just because you’re from a small place, doesn’t mean you can’t be successful.” Growing up in small towns you can feel like the world is small or there’s nothing out there; Kaine hopes to open young people’s eyes to how far a person can go if they work towards their dreams. “If you’re willing to work towards your dreams, it sounds so cliché, but it is all possible.”

If the dream is big enough, you can do it. – Sheena Kaine Boxer

Kaine never let her gender define or stop her, she says whatever intimidation may have been in the ring training with mainly men, was gone once she trusted herself. “It’s a challenge, it definitely is. It seems as though you have to prove yourself a lot more than the next male that’s training the exact same things that you are,” Kaine corrects herself with a laugh of confidence, worthy of a fighter with a no-loss record, “or trying to keep up with the stuff that I do.”

I love the challenge, I love every bit of it. – Sheena Kaine Boxer

Kaine trains in Edmonton at the Alliance Boxing Club where there’s no such thing as a regular day, “my routine always changes, I can’t have same days or I’ll go crazy. My coach is super good with that, he meets up with me, when I can. He does a lot of hand pads with me, we do a lot of sparing; he nitpicks everything and makes sure I’m smooth, technically.”

Kaine is quite literally training all the time, when she’s not in the ring, she’s running stairs or finding ways to get in cardio. She also teaches at UFC Gym, in Sherwood Park. Kaine has set classes, along with conditioning, fundamentals, and one-on-ones. Some of the boxers are teens and young adults, where along with the fundamentals and love for the sport, Kaine passes on her passion onto them. “I just want them to be able to use [boxing] as an outlet. Maybe get out some anger or frustration, energy; whatever it might be.” Teaching kids about taking care of their bodies and being healthy is an important part of the sport, “it keeps them healthy. I teach them nutritrican along the way and the fitness aspect of [boxing].”

It’s an all around good sport for kids. – Sheena Kaine Boxer

Kaine’s 14 year old daughter, Alexis, is one of the teens she trains. “I love it, it’s brought us so close together. She made me fall back in love with boxing,” Kaine says she left the sport for awhile in her  20’s and came back to it with the urging of her daughter. “I brought [Alexis] to one of the local gyms, just to train and check it out. She fell in love with the sport, she wanted to be in it, every single day. So, we started going and I fell back in love with it.”

Kaine’s focus is on June 4th, where she is fighting in Dekada Entertainment’s Premiere Fight Night at the Energy Centre in Cold Lake. It’ll be one of the biggest fights to come to Alberta with headliner Fort Kent’s Rob Nichols defending his championship belt. As for Kaine, she’ll be taking on Ontario’s Christina Barry.  For tickets follow the link and remember promo code: Kaine https://www.getqd.com/dekada_premier_fightnight_cold_lake/

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