JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Ishika "Isis" Lay has spent her whole life fighting opponents bigger and stronger than she is.

The boxer grew up around tough competition. 

"Because I had a lot of brothers, I always felt a little tougher than the normal girl," she said in an interview while training back in August.

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She worked out at HeadStrong Gym at Jacksonville Beach. Her trainer Sonny Cummings would have to put her in the ring with men.

"She was like Sugar Ray," Cummings said. "She was like a female Sugar Ray Leonard."

Her fight was to make team U.S.A., to go to London, to win Olympic gold. 

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. -- Jacksonville Beach Police are investigating a hit and run crash involving a bicyclist.

The crash happened around 10:15 p.m. in the 1400 block of 3rd Street North.

A male bicyclist was crossing 3rd Street from East to West, according to a news release from Jacksonville Beach Police Department Public Information Officer Sergeant Tom Bingham.

As the bicyclist was crossing the road, Bingham said, a red or maroon 1992 - 1998 BMW being driven by a white female was traveling northbound struck the bicyclist.  Bingham said the BMW was traveling at approximately 60 miles per hour.  The posted speed limit at that intersection is 35 miles per hour.

The driver did not stop and left the scene of the crash.

The bicyclist, who was flown to Shands Jacksonville, received severe head injuries.  Family members tell First Coast News he is 28-year-old Pascual Sales.  He is currently in critical condition at Shands.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Check your mailbox!  The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is Saturday and letter carriers have been dropping off donation bags at homes all over the First Coast this week.  

This is the 20th year of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Food Drive.  

The donation drive is designed to make giving easy.  All people have to do is put some non-perishable food in a bag and leave it by their mailboxes Saturday.  Postal workers will take the donations and transport them to Second Harvest of North Florida.