The Milford Youth Center is very excited to announce the relaunch of our once loved BOXING PROGRAM! Many thanks to John Geffert and the Ruggiero Family for the generous $1,470 donation from a Golf Tournament that was created in the memory of Branden Ruggiero. Because of community member like them, we are able to start the program this month!
The program will start on November 6th, 2018 and will run every Tuesday and Thursday from 3:30-4:30PM! Joining us as volunteers are Mark Castiglionie and Shalton Soto! This program is designed for ages 8-18 and will focus on boxing fundamentals and having some fun! Reminder: You must be a registered After School member to participate!
About the volunteers: Shalton was born and raised in Milford, MA! He started martial arts at the age of town and hasn’t looked back since! Shalton’s goals for the boxing program are to make martial arts more readily available and to help kids fall in love with the sport! His long-term goal is to own his own studio so he can teach as many kids as possible! He loves the golden age of boxing and idolizes Muhammed Ali and Dewan Singh!
Mark Castiglione is a school resource officer, though he does great work with youth in this aspect, he would like to be able to build stronger relationships with the youths of the community and make younger children aware that he is here to help! He was raised in Hopedale, MA and first started boxing in college. He trained at the PAL in Framingham as well as the Worcester YMCA! Through working at the youth center, he hopes to be able to bring boxing to more kids in the area and draw more kids in for after school activities! His goals are to make sure that kids spend their time being productive and not destructive while working towards favorable attitudes and efforts! He considers Mickey Ward and Arturo Ghatti to be his boxing idols!