Lauryn Eagle

Background

Coming from a water skiing family, her father Peter won the Australian title eleven times and sister Sarah placed second at the 2007 World Championships. She retired shortly from racing after her father"s death in 2008.

Education

She then finished third at the 2007 World Championship in May in the Formula 1 Division.

Career

She was on The Celebrity Apprentice Australia and is a former Mission Teen International 2004. She first learnt to ski at the age of four and started racing when she was nine years old. In 2009 Lauryn returned to racing placing third at the 2009 World Championships, and 7th in the 2011 World Championships after suffering a big fall in the third race.

Turning professional in 2010, she went 2–0–1 with 1 knockout that year and in 2011 she would suffer two split decision losses.

The match was widely criticised within the boxing media. lieutenant was also noted that Sithsaithong"s record was almost entirely against debut fighters in Thai villages.

In September 2012, she did a promotional fight against Fox FM radio joc Matt Tilley in a "Champ vs Chump" promotion. Two days later Eagle fought New Zealand"s Nicki Bigwood winning in a unanimous decision in a six round bout on as an undercard to former rugby league player Solomon Haumono"s fight.

Eagle also has a keen interest in modeling.

She then went to Costa Rica in Central America and competed in Mission Teen International and made a clean sweep, winning Mission Teen International, along with Most Photogenic, Mission Congeniality and Best Silhouette. She starred in the second season of the Celebrity Apprentice Australia where she lasted until the final episode where she finished fourth. In the August edition of MAXIM magazine, Eagle featured on the front cover and a photo shoot.

Achievements

• In 2003, she placed second in the Junior Division and at the next World Championships in 2005 she won the women"s division title in the F2 class. In 2006, she won the Australian Speed Championships (U/19) and the Australian Marathon Champs (U/19). On 13 July 2012, she defeated Kiangsak Sithsaithong (then 9–0–0 4KO) by a 5th round TKO to win the World Boxing Foundation women"s super featherweight title, improving her record to 3–2–1 2 knockouts. Commentators pointed out that Eagle had not fought more than 6 rounds in her career, and had not won a fight since 2010. Eagle won the three round fight by a TKO in the third round. On January 30, 2013 she won the vacant Australia female lightweight title beating Nadine Brown on points at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. In 2005, she competed in Mission Teen Australia in Darwin and won the title along with Mission Congeniality. In 2006, she won the FHM Lara Croft Challenge involved physical challenges of shooting, running, ropes, ladders, 4-wheel driving and swimming. In March 2008, Eagle"s father Peter, a 10-time Australian water-skiing champion, died when his speedboat flipped and crashed.