Female Soldier's ninth title fuels Olympic dreams

Twenty-year-old Pfc. Rianna Rios won her ninth Golden Gloves state crown March 27, and has begun focusing on the long road to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Rios earned a unanimous decision over Katina Melendrez in the women's 132-pound division of the 2015 Colorado Golden Gloves Championships at the Crowne Plaza Convention Center.

Rios won seven Golden Gloves belts in Texas before joining the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program, or WCAP, at Fort Carson, Colorado, where she is training for a shot at making Team USA for the Olympic Summer Games.

"It's my time, definitely," she said. "It's time for Rios in Rio."

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