Group of local boxers bring home gold from USA Boxing National Junior Olympics

PITTSBURGH — A group of local boxers and their coaches just got home for the USA Boxing National Junior Olympics in Texas.

Two of them won gold medals and one won silver.

The athletes train at 412 Boxing at Third Avenue Gym in downtown Pittsburgh.

The group’s flight arrived at Pittsburgh International Airport over the weekend.

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Pittsburgh Police Chief Scott Schubert was there to congratulate them.

Delbert “Sunny” Taylor told Channel 11 that boxing saved his life.

“This organization brought me from a low point in my life. Whenever I started boxing, I was doing it for my own personal problems with my family, and it helped me from veering in the wrong directions,” Taylor said.

The boxers got a police escort from the airport back to Pittsburgh, where they had a welcome home party.

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