BEMEDALED tankers Juliana Marien Villanueva, Amoguis sisters Lora Micah and Liaa Margarette and Ivo Nikolai Enot will lead the cast for the 381-member Davao City delegation to the Batang Pinoy 2019 National Championships slated August 25 to 31 in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
Villanueva of Precious International School of Davao finished fourth in her favorite 800-meter freestyle in the Asean Schools Games 2019 held in Semarang, Indonesia. She holds the Palarong Pambansa record in secondary girls 800-meter freestyle in the past two years. She first erased the Palaro record in 2018 in Ilocos Sur then registered a new mark in the 2019 Palaro in Davao City.
The 14-year-old swimming champion also won the gold in the same event in the Batang Pinoy Mindanao 2019 qualifying leg held in Tagum City.
Lora, for her part, hauled three golds, five silvers and one bronze in the Arafura Games 2019 in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. She also brought home few medals in the BIMP-Eaga Friendship Games 2018 in Brunei Darussalam where Marga also collected some golds.
Both also were among the Batang Pinoy Mindanao Qualifying 2019 and Philippine National Age-Group Swimming Championships 2019 champions.
Enot, meanwhile, also has several golds won in Arafura Games 2019 and Philippine National Age-Group Swimming Championships 2019.
Irish Ortiz of the Sports Development Division of the City Mayor's Office (SDD-CMO), during a recent Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) Forum at The Annex of SM City Davao, said. "There's a total of 296 athletes, 64 coaches and 21 officials in the city delegation."
Some delegates will start leaving for Palawan on August 22.
The city will also field entries in archery, arnis, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, boxing, chess, dancesports, futsal, karatedo, tennis, sepak takraw, taekwondo, volleyball, beach volleyball, cycling, judo, Muay Thai, rugby football, triathlon, weightlifting, wrestling, wushu-sanda and wushu-taolu.