For those not attending Charter Day Ball, the Miami University club boxing team will be hosting a show of its own.

The boxing team's annual invitational will take place at 5 p.m. Feb. 21 in Withrow Hall.

According to fourth-year coach Mike Argadine, the five-person team trains individually four to five days a week and participates in six to eight invitationals a year.

To senior Zach Ginsburg, president of the club boxing team, boxing requires self-dedication.

"It involves the will to train yourself," Ginsburg said. "You have to work the hardest you can in order to win. You have to push yourself harder than most people would push themselves. It's a lot different than most sports because you can't pass the blame onto anyone else. It's only you."

As a result of the required hard work and dedication, the team decreased from 20 boxers to five after the fall 2008 semester.

Argadine said this shows how tough the sport can be.

"The key is every year we have a core group of guys that are dedicated," Agradine said. "That's the strongest asset. It's definitely quality over quantity. We're always going to have people coming in and out of the gym, but having the core group of boxers is key because if we didn't, it would just be guys going into a room hitting each other."

As individual boxers train to win, Agradine said the work ethic gained will be beneficial if carried over into other aspects of the boxers' lives.

"As far as the whole boxing experiences, its such a character and confidence ability activity," Agradine said. "I tell the guys you will never be in a tougher situation than that. Being in a ring with a guy that wants to knock your head off is definitely an intimidating thing to do. You're most likely never going to be in a situation harder than that for the rest of your life because you realize it's not as hard as boxing was."

The invitational will consist of 16 fights with West Virginia University, University of Kentucky, University of Michigan, The Ohio State University, Xavier University and the defending national champion, the U.S. Military Academy.