Westover boxing program lands National Championship Published April 11, 2012 By SrA. Kelly Galloway 439 AW/PA WESTOVER AIR RESERVE BASE, Mass. -- Joshue Lopez and his Coach Rocky Snow left for the National Collegiate Boxing Association Tournament at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs April 4. There Lopez proved himself worthy of the title: National Collegiate Boxing Champion. Boxer and University of Massachusetts Amherst student Lopez bested Air Force Academy Cadet Andrew Munoz, by decision, 5-0, and took the 132-pound weight class National Championship April 7. One month earlier, he won the Regional Collegiate Boxing Association Tournament at Pennsylvania State University March 15-17. That victory landed him a position at the Air Force Academy to vie for the National Championship. The regional tournament boasted fighters from eight colleges: Pennsylvania State University, Lock Haven University, United States Military Academy, Coast Guard Academy, Georgetown University, UMass, and University of Maryland, College Park. The top three fighters in each weight class from every regional tournament in the country went on to compete at the Air Force Academy. Coach Snow, a former Marine and boxing veteran, brought boxing to Westover just one month after revitalizing the UMass boxing team. Since then, UMass team members have travelled to Westover each week to train with more experienced fighters and military members. Snow estimates that he has trained over 150 reservists, active duty, state and city police and dependents at the Westover Fitness Center since March 2010 -- volunteering up to eight hours of training a day.