Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, works out with professional boxer Antonia Garcia at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, warms up at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, works out with professional boxer Antonia Garcia at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, a 15-year-old Garden Grove/Santiago High student, recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, warms up with professional boxers Antonio Garcia, left, and Diego Aviles at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, warms up at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, prepares to train at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, prepares to train at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, spars with professional boxer Diego Aviles at the Anaheim Youth Center on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, works out with professional boxer Antonia Garcia at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, spars with professional boxer Diego Aviles last month in Anaheim. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, works out with professional boxer Antonia Garcia at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Fifteen-year-old Guadalupe Ruiz’s father, Erasmo, and 11-year-old sister, Issabela, watch her practice at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Fifteen-year-old Guadalupe Ruiz shares a laugh with her boxing coach, Art James, at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, starts her training routine early in the morning before she heads to Santiago High School in Garden Grove. She recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz eats a spinach omelet prepared by her father before he leaves for work early on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. After Ruiz finishes her 30-minute workout on the treadmill her mother warms it up. Ruiz, left, eats with her 11-year-old sister, Issabela, before heading to school in Garden Grove. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
A video of Guadalupe Ruiz winning the 2023 USA Boxing National Championships plays on her TV at home while she eats a spinach omelet for breakfast before heading to school. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, is undefeated in the USA Boxing National Championships with a 40-0 record. Her mother, Cinthia, keeps Ruiz’s championship belts on a shelf in the family’s Garden Grove living room. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, a student at Santiago High School in Garden Grove, won the 114-pound title at the 2024 USA Boxing National Championships last week in Virginia, improving to 40-0. The 12-time national champion with Olympic goals is pictured at home on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, walks to school with her mother, Cinthia, from their Garden Grove apartment on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. Although the high school is just across the street and Ruiz is a boxing champion, her mother worries about Ruiz’s safety. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, a student at Santiago High School in Garden Grove, won the 114-pound title at the 2024 USA Boxing National Championships last week in Virginia, improving to 40-0. The 12-time national champion with Olympic goals is pictured at home on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz sleeps beside her exhausted mother, Cinthia, captured in a family photo. Ruiz was born with health issues and spent two months in NICU and two years with a feeding tube. She is now a healthy 15-year-old who is an undefeated junior boxer. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz was born with health issues and spent two months in NICU and two years with a feeding tube. She is now a healthy 15-year-old who is an undefeated junior boxer. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, a student at Santiago High School in Garden Grove, won the 114-pound title at the 2024 USA Boxing National Championships last week in Virginia, improving to 40-0. The 12-time national champion with Olympic goals is pictured at home on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, a student at Santiago High School in Garden Grove, won the 114-pound title at the 2024 USA Boxing National Championships last week in Virginia, improving to 40-0. The 12-time national champion with Olympic goals is pictured at home on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, a student at Santiago High School in Garden Grove, won the 114-pound title at the 2024 USA Boxing National Championships last week in Virginia, improving to 40-0. The 12-time national champion with Olympic goals is pictured at home on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
Show Caption1 of 26Guadalupe Ruiz, 15, works out with professional boxer Antonia Garcia at the Downtown Youth Center in Anaheim on Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. The Garden Grove/Santiago High student recently won her 12th national title at the USA Boxing National Championships in Virginia. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
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Their baby was in trouble – no, trouble is too tame a word. That’s something that gets you sent to the principal’s office, and this wouldn’t be that kind of kid.
Their baby was in danger.
Meconium aspiration syndrome. What they call it when an infant’s stool that typically passes a few hours after birth is instead ingested in utero, and that black and tarry substance coats the air sacs of her lungs and blocks her airway.
This little girl – or not so little, Guadalupe Ruiz was late-arriving, delivered via emergency C-section, 10 pounds with a bushel of black hair – had only just joined us, and already she was in a fight for her life.
It was so touch and go, they actually lost her. Twice, her dad said.
I won’t lie; once you know that, it hits different, talking with her now. Listening to this talented Garden Grove Santiago High School freshman share her hopes and dreams. Watching her beat the meconium out of people, this 12-time national boxing champion who has never lost a bout.
Take your most-tread sports clichés – never give up! refuse to lose! – and apply them to her baby pictures. Because I’m telling you, in them she looks like she looks when she’s in the boxing ring. And, well, yeah. She’s fighting in those photos. Fighting with every fiber of her being.
Apply it to the people in her corner. Her parents Cinthia and Erasmo, so steadfast, and so loving and warm that the nurse who helped them during those difficult first 10 weeks at Children’s Hospital Orange County wouldn’t let go, either; to this day, Jami ...
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