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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Cebu, Mandaue to vie in Hawaii Int’l. Games
Cebuano athletes get a chance to compete in another multi-nation meet when they join the Hawaii International Youth Goodwill Games next year.
This after the Cebu City Sports Commission and Mandaue City Sports Development Commission expressed willingness to send their best athletes to the event in July next year.
CCSC chief Jonathan Guardo and MCSDC executive director Cheryl Ouano will lead their respective delegations to Hawaii, which feature athletes nine to 18-years-old.
“We accept the invitation and we will send our best athletes,” Ouano told Sun.Star Cebu.
Guardo has said the Hawaii event is already calendared and will be tackled after the Southeast Asian Games (Seag). Cebu and Mandaue will host some of the games of the Seag.
Fives teams
“We will tackle that matter after the Seag. By January we will focus on it. For sure we will send our athletes to Hawaii. This is only a week from the International Children’s Games in Thailand,” said Guardo.
Mandaue City will send its boxing team, while Cebu City is considering sending its track and field, soccer, volleyball, boxing and basketball teams.
“Maybe we will send five teams. It will all depend on the size of each team,” said Guardo.
The Hawaii Games will be held in Honolulu on July 24-29, pitting kids in basketball, cross-country racing, volleyball, soccer, track and field, boxing and seven-a-side rugby.
Former world-boxing champion and Hawaii-based Cebuano Rolando Bohol, chairman of the youth athletes for the Philippines/Hawaii, sent the invitation through boxing patron Antonio Alderguer.
Bohol said the organizers will take care of the hotel accommodation, local transportation and food of the athletes, coaches, managers and trainers. (RCM)
(August 11, 2005 issue)
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