Austin Women’s Boxing Club is one of just two all-women-run boxing gyms in the country, a badge of honor that trainer and amateur fighter Alex Plichta wears proudly.

Inside the walls of Babyface Boxing Training Center, the first lesson girls learn in the ring is that they are limitless.

Santuary Boxing Club boxers, from left, Makya Wade, Kabrynna Wiley and Katie Kerecz, with coach Rich Cantolina, competed at the USA Boxing women’s championships Aug. 17-20, in Lafayette, La.

Last summer, Sanctuary Boxing Club in New Kensington took five female boxers to a national competition in Kansas. Katie Kerecz, 12, returned to the national stage last month, this time for the ...