Our Instructors
Dave Gaudette
Owner / Lead Trainer
Dave Gaudette has been boxing since 1967. He earned the New Hampshire Amateur Light Weight Championship title in 1969, and was the Southern New England Amateur Junior Welterweight Champion in 1971.
Dave was president and captain of the Stonehill College Boxing Club in North Easton, Massachusetts from 1968 to 1972.
Dave learned the art of boxing and training boxers under the tutelage of trainers like Willie Lafond, Angelo Dundee, and Goody Petronelli.
Dave earned his Master's Degree in Comparative East/West Philosophy from the University of Colorado and a Colorado Elementary Teaching Certificate. He also worked as an assistant coach for the University of Colorado Buffaloes from 1998 to 2003 under legendary speed, strength and conditioning coach, E.J. "Doc" Kreis using boxing to enhance player's timing, hand/eye coordination, balance, footwork and power. Dave has trained and managed a number of amateur and professional boxers. Since 1975, Dave have been a resident of Boulder County.
Johnny Argrow
Instructor
Johnny started his boxing career in 2012 right here at Front Range Boxing Academy when he and his brother started private lessons with Dave.
Over the years… he trained at different gyms with more of the top coaches around and competed with some of the best elite class boxers in the country at 165lbs.
Outside of competition, Johnny has been coaching since 2015 gaining experience working with boxers of all ages and skill levels from youth classes to competition. After all these years Johnny is excited to come home to Front Range Boxing Academy to share boxing and a smile with you!
Sarah Burrous
Instructor
I first came to Front Range boxing in 2011 and began teaching the Women's Boxing class in 2012. I boxed competitively in that first year and hold a Golden Gloves championship.
Sport have always been in my life from a young age. I've played soccer, baseball, football, softball, track and field, and swimming. Most recently I played for the Boulder County Bombers roller derby team for about a year.
My husband and our two young kiddos live in Longmont and we are always playing and running around having fun. I work as a high school counselor and am an assistant coach for the school softball team. Boxing continues to rise to the top for me. While boxing is a stress relief there is no way I can box angry. Boxing is technical, methodical, and one of the hardest and most rewarding sports I have ever done. You have to rely on your own training when you box, there is no team, just you and your opponent.
Lucy Kennedy-Walker
Instructor
Lucy's athletics didn't start in the ring -- she was a competitive fencer for years, and she represented her college on the varsity squad as well as participating individually in numerous national competitions.
While in law school in Boston, she attended a boxing class on a dare and was immediately hooked. By the time she moved to Colorado in 2014, she'd traded in her epee for a pair of gloves.
In addition to boxing and lawyering, Lucy is an avid runner, hiker, and cyclist. Lucy welcomed a baby girl in February of 2019 and is pretty shameless about her hopes that the kid winds up a southpaw.
Lou Rubino
Weight Room Coordinator
Lou has been the weight room coordinator at Front Range Boxing since 1996, and has been involved in boxing since 1984 where he was a member of the prestigious Boardman Boxing Club from 1984 to 1989.
Lou was a Volunteer Assistant for Colorado University Buff's Speed, Strength and Conditioning Program (under Doctor Kreis) from 1995 to 2003.
In life, Lou is an Attorney for Platinum Entertainment (Thell Torrence, pres.) since 1992, and has been a noted Attorney in Boulder since 1981.
Jeff Rehman
Instructor
I have been boxing training off and on since 1981 and interestingly enough, our friend Lou Rubino was my first unofficial trainer when we both trained together at the University of Colorado. I fought in the Colorado Golden Gloves in 1982 and placed 2nd as a novice.
Boxing has been what I call 'percussive therapy' and has gone a long way to outwardly express and soothe life's many challenges. The conditioning isn't half bad either. I've had the privilege of meeting and working out with some wonderful souls as well along the way. FRBA has been the primary place for my having met some stellar athletes and people in the sport of boxing.
Professionally, I am a Fire Fighter/Paramedic and have been in this line of work since 1989. I also made a YouTube video in 2012 that went quite viral and has been credited with saving quite a few lives worldwide. I have 2 beautiful grown daughters, a terrific son-in-law, and an adorable lil' grandson as well.
I'm privileged and honored that Dave has taken me in the FRBA family.
Jason Barnhart, MD, DNBPAS
Assistant Coach
Jason is a writer and a physician. As an undergraduate, he studied biological psychology at Yale University.
Always fascinated with martial arts, he studied karate, aikido and Brazilian jiu-jitsu through college and medical school.
In 2009, he met Dave Gaudette and began studying the "sweet science" of boxing. Jason has been a USA Boxing level 1 coach since 2014 and currently holds a Colorado professional boxing cornerman's license.