2008 Indiana Golden Gloves Finals...
Golden Gloves
Congratulations to the Lafayette Boxing Club for its second-place team finish at the recent Indiana Golden Gloves Championships.
Travis DePew won the Open heavyweight title to earn a trip to the nationals May 5-10 in Grand Rapids, Mich. He also was given the Open Sportsmanship Award. Ray Lucies of the Frankfort Boxing Club also advanced to nationals.
Other Lafayette Boxing Club fighters earning accolades were:
Austin Winger, Junior Golden Gloves Crowd Pleaser Award
Mark Coletta, Novice Sportsmanship Award
Daniel Luna, Novice Outstanding Boxer Award
Lafayette champions were DePew (open heavyweight), Coletta (novice light heavyweight), Luna (novice middleweight) and Everado Campos (sub novice super heavyweight).
Nice job by coaches Terry Christian and Brian Raub.
Contact Bob Scott at Journal & Courier, 217 N. Sixth St., Lafayette, IN 47901; call (765) 420-5248; fax (765) 420-5246; or e-mail bscott@journalandcourier.com.
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Lafayette Boxing Club Wins Big
At The 2007 Indiana Golden Gloves
By "K.O." Jacqui Snow.
Still operating out of coach Terry Christian's one-car garage, the Lafayette Boxing Club continued its remarkable winning ways with a "First Place Team" finish at this year's Indiana Golden Gloves. The Club also had five individual champions!
In addition, Daniel Luna won the Outstanding Boxer Award and Christian took the Coach of the Year awardHead Coach: Terry Christian.
Assistant Coach: Brian Raub.
Team Roster:
Ezequel Luna.
Daniel Luna.
Travis Depew.
Mark Coletta.
Justin Christian.
Jarrod Richeson.
Ali Lewis.
Todd Taylor.
Dane Simmons.
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Boxing club comes out on top at Golden Gloves.
Bob Scott Lafayette Journal and Courier.
Congratulations to the Lafayette Boxing Club for winning the team title at the recent Indiana Golden Gloves Championships in Indianapolis.
The club had five champions, and Terry Christian was named Coach of the Year.
The five winners were Ezequel Luna, Daniel Luna, Travis DePew, Mark Coletta and Justin Christian.
Daniel Luna won the Outstanding Boxer award.
The club also had two junior Golden Gloves champs -- Austin Winger and Zach Denham.
In the recent Junior Olympics, C.J. Brummett and Austin Winger each won a title.
