Editing Christy Martin (section)

=== Early life ===
Martin was born Christy Renea Salters on June 12, 1968, in [[Mullens, West Virginia]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Christy Martin |url=http://www.ibhof.com/pages/about/inductees/women_modern/martin.html |access-date=August 30, 2022 |website=International Boxing Hall of Fame}}</ref><ref name="Women Athletes">Outstanding Women Athletes: Who they are and how they influenced sports, Janet Woolum [https://books.google.com/books?id=DWmCWO6SpsYC&dq=Christy+martin+boxer&pg=PA181]</ref><ref name="wban.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.wban.org/biog/cmartin.htm|title=Women's Boxing: Christy Martin Biography|publisher=|access-date=June 30, 2009|archive-date=July 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100708030857/http://www.wban.org/biog/cmartin.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> and attended [[Mullens High School]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BOXER WEARS LIPSTICK, AND SHE IS A WINNER |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1994-01-29-9401290077-story.html |website=OrlandoSentinel.com |date=January 29, 1994 |accessdate=August 4, 2020}}</ref>

She played various sports as a child including [[Little League Baseball|Little League baseball]] and all-state basketball. According to Martin, she was aware she was a [[lesbian]] from "5th or 6th grade."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2021-06-24 |title=The life and near death of prizefighter Christy Salters-Martin |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/christy-martin-prizefighter-life-and-near-death/7/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref> She was in a relationship with her basketball teammate Sherry Lusk throughout high school, of which her parents disapproved.<ref name=":1" /> She attended [[Concord University|Concord College]] in [[Athens, West Virginia]], on a basketball scholarship and earned a [[Bachelor of Science|B.S.]] in education.<ref name="Women Athletes" /><ref name="wban.org" />

In her memoir ''Fighting for Survival'', Martin states she was sexually abused as a child by a family friend.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Martin |first=Christy |url=https://doi.org/10.5771/9781538153598 |title=Fighting for Survival |date=2022 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-5381-5359-8}}</ref>