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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Davao divers in rigid training
DAVAO City divers started holding their quarters last month at Trace College in Los Baños, Laguna, which boasts of state-of-the-art multi-million aquatics center, to focus on their preparations for the 2006 Asian Games slated December in Doha, Qatar.
Southeast Asian (SEA) Games triple gold medallist Sheila Mae Perez, in a phone interview with Sun.Star Monday night, said: "I turned in at Trace College on May 11 while the rest of the nine-member RP diving team arrived early as May 9. I was quite delayed because I came from Davao."
The 20-year-old champion diver said they might be competing in an event in Shanghai, China in July as part of their preparations for the Qatar sports spectacle.
"We're still not sure who will compose the final line-up for the Asian Games. I'm not even sure which events I will be entered. I think there will be a one-meter springboard event in Doha but I haven't started training for it yet," said the morena lass whose life story was featured recently at ABS-CBN's "Maalaala Mo Kaya" drama anthology.
Aside from Perez, other Davao divers now in rigid training are Ryan Fabriga, Ceceil Domineos, and Niño Carog.
Perez is made to concentrate more in the three-meter springboard individual and synchronized events. She won the golds in both events and in the one-meter springboard individual during the 2005 SEAG.
She said there's not much of a change of schedule while they were still training at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex and now at Trace.
"We still have two sessions every day. The first session starts at 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. then we resume at 2:30 to 6 p.m. We have our breaks in between," Perez said.
Perez, however, admitted her schedule might even get tighter when classes start this month. She is enrolled as a freshman BSBA student enjoying a special scholarship grant at Trace College.
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