Boardman Marine, 3 others to bike up to 150 miles for MS

BOARDMAN

Shawn Tiberio of Boardman, who had three deployments in Iraq during his 10 years as a Marine Corps combat engineer clearing roadside bombs, now fights another battle by riding in the MS Pedal to the Point bicycle ride to raise money and awareness for multiple sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis is a chronic, unpredictable disease of the central nervous system.

Tiberio, 31, is captain of a four-person team, Youngstown Riders, whose members are preparing to make the Pedal to the Point ride Aug. 2 from Brunswick High School to Sandusky High School and back again Aug. 3, a 150-mile round trip.

But three of the Youngstown Riders plan to ride 100 miles

Aug. 2 (75 miles plus the bonus 25-mile century route) and then

75 miles back Aug. 3.

Tiberio, a general contractor and co-owner of House to Home Construction, a real-estate investment firm, said he and two other team members — Glen Cimaglia and Russ Cannon, both of Boardman — have been riding 30 to 50 miles a day in Mill Creek Park training for the MS ride.

The fourth team member, Diana (Jones) Nogay, a professor of technical communications at the University of North Texas, is home for the summer living in Brookfield Township where she grew up.

A 1991 graduate of Kennedy Christian High School in Hermitage, Pa., Nogay, 41, also has MS.

Read more about the team members and the ride in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.