Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Tiukinhoy urges Cesafi to resolve issues
CLOSING the season right in the hopes that it will make for a better start.
This was what outgoing Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc (Cesafi) commissioner Felix Tiukinhoy had in mind in the Cesafi closing event dubbed “Cesafi: A Tribute” Sunday night at the Cebu Coliseum.
“We are closing a successful season and we hope to start the 2008 season right,” Tiukinhoy said. The event formally closed what had been considered the most successful Cesafi ever.
“It was the most successful season in terms of exposure and participation of students, not just athletes of the league but also other students who supported not just in the most popular basketball competition, but the other events as well,” he added.
The four-hour event, directed by Raymund Aboo featured drum and bugle corps, choirs, solo and duet vocalists, dance troops and cheerdance squads of the Cesafi-member schools.
Tiukinhoy said that as the outgoing head, he is hoping that the people and groups that make up Cesafi will meet and put to bed all standing issues that have beleaguered the league in order to have a clean slate once the 2008 season starts in July.
“As outgoing commissioner, I wish for the best. I hope all issues must be tackled head on so that a better season can start,” Tiukinhoy said.
Tiukinhoy, who resigned after feeling zero respect when stubborn teams refused to heed the Cesafi ruling about member-schools’ participation in other leagues, deemed it important to resolve all issues because with all the talent and industrious people behind the schools, it is the only thing not right about the Cesafi this year.
Cesafi members joined the Visayas Amateur Athletic Association and the National Students Basketball Championship, which was organized by the Basketball Association of the Philippines.
Tiukinhoy credited the success of the Cesafi to all the athletic directors, who worked hard to make the league a working well-oiled machine and their efforts should not be taken for granted because they will be the ones who could make the league work again.
“There is no question as far as the athletic directors are concerned. They are the most hardworking and supportive people there is in this league,” Tiukinhoy said. (MCB)
