The International Boxing Association named Naval Academy boxing coach Jim McNally as one of the 34 Olympic Boxing Referees and Judges to officiate during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
McNally has been the boxing coach at Navy since 1986, coaching the Mids to five national championships and the runner-up spot another five times. He has tutored 33 individual national champions.
A Physical Education professor at the academy, McNally recently officiated and judged at the world amateur championships and the 2007 Pan Am Games.
He is a native of Philadelphia and a 1981 graduate of Lock Haven University.
McNally will be the lone U.S. representative. Host China is the only nation with more than one official.
The Olympic selection comes from a new evaluation process which started at the AIBA World Boxing Championships Chicago 2007 and continued through the various Continental Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournaments up until the end of March.
