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Podcast: Dana Tyson
Episode: Marlen Esparza
Description: Mother. Olympian. Pro boxer. Houstonian. Marlen Esparza is an American boxer. In May 2012, she qualified to compete at the 2012 Olympics, becoming the first American woman to qualify for the Olympics in the first year that women's boxing was an Olympic event. She won the bronze medal in the women's flyweight division at the 2012 Olympics in London.