Al Mitchell - Class of 2020

(Marquette)

The Philadelphia native has been an influential member of the national boxing community for nearly 60 years and has touched the lives of many youngsters. Mitchell has worked with ring champions Vernon Forrest, Larry Nicholson, David Reid, Mike Tyson, and Floyd Mayweather, among more than 800 national champions. Mitchell, 77, has provided boxing instructions to hundreds of athletes at the amateur, Olympic, and professional levels. He also served as legal guardian of his high school boxers in the USOEC program in Marquette. He was USA boxing coach of the year in 1994, head coach of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic U.S. boxing team, was technical advisor to the U.S. boxing team at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics among other major positions. He was 43-1 as a boxer, before moving to Marquette in 1989 to direct the USOEC boxing program.