T-Rex: Her Fight for Gold
Flint, Michigan’s Claressa "T-Rex" Shields won a Gold Medal in 2012, the first time women were allowed to box in the Olympics. T-Rex is a coming-of-age tale of a girl who learns that in Flint, a gold medal doesn't always make life easier.
T-Rex is the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, a 17-year-old from Flint, Michigan who won the gold medal in women’s boxing at the 2012 Olympics — the first time women were allowed to box in the Olympic games. Her journey from the streets of Flint to the top of the podium in London was both epic and historic. But this film isn’t just the story of sports heroics, it’s also a coming-of-age tale about a young girl whose resilience is tested again and again as she tightrope-walks between celebrity athlete and high school senior in a place fraught with negativity and dysfunction. While Claressa does succeed in winning the gold and fulfilling her dream, success in Flint for a young girl doesn’t always make life easier.