But before the senior prepares himself for his upcoming bout, he has some behind-the-scenes work to attend to first.
Walsh is the president and a member of the Carolina Boxing Club. Walsh, joined by three other teammates, will fight in the club’s second home show.
The event — which will be held at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall lobby of the Student Union — will feature boxers from UNC, Maryland, East Carolina, West Virginia and Wake Forest.
As a student organization, unaffiliated with university athletics, the boxing club is both participating in the event and planning the show from its conception to the opening bell.
“We have to get clubs willing to travel down to Chapel Hill. The event can’t conflict with their schedule, it can’t conflict with our schedule and then we have to match people by weight and experience,” Walsh said.
Unlike athletic events under UNC’s amateur umbrella, the event has to be planned and funded through the efforts of the club itself — not the University.
UNC’s budget for operating expenses for athletics in fiscal year 2014-15 was $75,360,156, allocating money toward salaries, scholarships and other administrative expenses.
The club was allocated funds through Student Congress but had to front the rest of the bill itself and raise money on its own through club dues to put on a show of this magnitude.
