PNW Golden Gloves Board of Directors

Jeff Macaluso (born October 21, 1955) is an American referee who has officiated as a referee in over 1500 USA Boxing events from 1979 to present . Jeff has also of official as a pro referee in over 300 professional bouts to include 2 world titles and many televised events in the Pacific Northwest. Also to his credit was appointed team Manager for several USA International events and hosted a National USA Boxing Convention in Tacoma, WA 

Macaluso is of Sicilian decent. He boxed as a amateur when he was 13 years old and became a State wrestling champion in the late 60’s. Beginning in 1979 Jeff started his boxing officiating career as a referee for AAU Boxing which later became USA Boxing . 

Jeff became the President of Pacific NW Boxing Association in 1996 to the present day with over 30 years as President leading the Pacific Northwest Amateur Boxing Association. Jeff has worked the Tacoma Golden Gloves for over 35 years the longest running State Golden Gloves West of the Mississippi and has donated over $35,000.00 toward the event. Every year the Golden Gloves event attracts over 2500 fans and raises enough money to pay for the athletes travel & Boarding to the Region tournament in Las Vegas. Jeff has dedicated over 45 years officiating at local, regional and National events for USA Boxing. Jeff looks forward to sitting on the Board of directors if the PNW is awarded its own Golden Gloves regional franchise. 

Since 1992, Tony Anderson has been a life member of the Tacoma 

Athletic Commission (TAC) where he served three terms as vice president and three terms as president. He has served on the Golden Gloves Committee since 1994. Considering the vast number of boards, groups and community events he has been part of or led, Tony has brought, and continues to bring, more than 35 years of community service to TAC and Tacoma Golden Gloves.

As a young man talented in sports, Tony lettered in football, wrestling and baseball. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he worked for the Department of Agriculture on the Tacoma waterfront as a railroad car and ship inspector then got his license to be a wheat inspector. However, a tumble off a railcar left Tony with injuries that required many surgeries and still afflict him to this day. 

Despite medical setbacks that would be with him for the rest of his life, Tony didn’t let anything stop him from being active in his community. In 1987, he joined the Order of the Sons & Daughters of Italy in America. In 1991, he joined Tacoma Sister Cities, serving on its board of directors since 1993 and as chair from 2003-2008. He served on the Sister Cities International board from 2001-2004 then was immediately named an honorary board member. One of Tony’s proudest achievements with Tacoma Sister Cities was his work as chair of the U.S.-Japan Cultural Baseball Exchange Program. He traveled to Kitakyushu, Japan seven times and hosted teams in Tacoma that many times as well. From 1987 to the end of 2009, more than 1,000 young players took part in that program. In recognition of his efforts, Tony received the 50th Anniversary Award from the Japanese city of Kitakyushu and Mayor Kenji Kitahashi. Because of his involvement with the baseball exchange program, in 2009 Tony was inducted into the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame and received its Dill Howell Award for his passion, commitment, and continued support for baseball in the Tacoma-Pierce County community. 

Tony’s activities were noticed throughout the city. He received a 2005 City of Destiny Award for Adult Leadership-Cultural Ambassador, and a 2019 Service Award from Bates Technical College. He was asked to serve on the City of 

Tacoma’s Citizens Recognition Committee (2005-2014), and at the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Puget Sound, Tony was a corporate board member in 2007 and served on its executive board 2008-2010. Tony said he wouldn’t be where he is today without all those in his life who have worked beside him for common goals. 

“When I was young and going to Catholic school, the nuns had us out doing community service work and I quickly  figured out, because of sports and so forth, that anything we accomplish in life is never accomplished alone, but 

together. That’s my motto. If we work as a team, we’ll be successful and, God forbid, if we’re not, at least we did it together as a team.”

For the past 50 years, coach Tom Mustin has dedicated his life and considerable skills giving hope to hundreds of youths, guiding them into lives of productivity and helping many to become recognized around the world as skilled athletes.

A gifted coach, Tom trained young athletes in football and basketball which yielded incredible results, some starting football in middle school then going on to the University of Washington and into the NFL.

In 1974, Tom took over as head coach at the Tacoma Boxing Club upon the departure of head trainer Joe Clough. An article in Sports Illustrated said the Club would never be the same without Clough, and this just served to make Tom more determined than ever to prove them wrong.

“I was bound and determined to be as good or better,” he said, and that’s just what he did.

Among his many awards and recognitions, in 1983 he won the Pierce County News Maker of Tomorrow Award, voted by TIME Magazine; Coach of the Year from USA Boxing in 1991; he was elected to the Washington State Sports Hall of Fame in 1996; won National Coach of the Year from the U.S. Olympic Committee, selected by USA Boxing, in 1997; and Coach of the Year for Boxing from the U.S. Olympic Committee in 2000. 

In 2015, Tom was voted into the National Golden Gloves Hall of Fame then was inducted into the Tacoma-Pierce County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016. He received the Doug McArthur Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tacoma Athletic Commission in 2018, and in May 2023 he was inducted into the Stadium High School Athletic Hall of Fame from where he graduated in 1964.

His coaching record is just as impressive going back to 1978 when he coached his first National Champion, Dwayne Jamison. Tom was a coach on the 1983 U.S. boxing team for the Junior World Championships and the 1990 Goodwill Games. He was an alternate coach for the U.S. Olympic team in 1992 and 1996, and later served as head coach for the U.S. team that participated in the 1995 Pan American Games, the 1998 Goodwill Games, and the 1999 World Championships. 

In 2000, Tom was named head coach for the U.S. Olympic team that participated in Sydney. Now, boxing champ and 2022 Tacoma Golden Gloves Golden Boy Dedrick Crocklem, who Tom coached going back to when Crocklem was 9 years old, qualified last month for Team USA at the U.S. Olympic Boxing Trials.

Tom credits formal education in the sport as a key to his success including U.S. Olympic Committee courses. Support from his wife, Judy, also kept him going as did support from his employer, the Tacoma News Tribune, which kept him on payroll throughout all his travels away from work.

After coming this far, 77-year-old Tom has no plans to stop. “I went in it because it gave me a purpose. You get paid the most when somebody tells you they got to change their life around, to strive to do everything to stay in the program. That means more than money.”