Junior Instructor Michele Illiano started learning Taekwondo in 2002 at a Taekwondo school in Shrewsbury. He joined Grandmaster Kyong H. Kim's West Long Branch school in 2006.

He is the co-captain of the USTC Junior Olympic Sparring Team.

He is a W.T.F. 2nd degree Black Belt and a part time junior instructor assisting Grandmaster Kim in all of his classes.

He is a senior at Monmouth Regional High School.

He is also part of the leadership training program at USTC.