BY BOY
RYAN B. ZABAL
Twenty
athletes from Aklan will represent the
Western
Visayas region in this
year’s Palarong Pambansa which will be held in Barangay Bubukal, Sta. Cruz,
Laguna from May 4 to 10.
The weeklong
annual meet of
17,000 athletes from 17 regions will
open on Sunday
in Laguna Sports Complex.
DepEd Aklan
Education Program Supervisor I Mary Ann Lopez said eleven elementary athletes
will compete in swimming, tennis, basketball, athletics, taekwondo and chess
events.
Nine
secondary athletes are also entered in arnis, boxing, athletics and chess events, she
said.
They will stay
together with the athletes of Western Visayas delegation at Crisanto Guysayko
Memorial Elementary School in Nagcarlan, Laguna, about 20-kilometers from
Laguna Sports Complex.
The
athletes from Aklan in the elementary division are Archie Sarabia from New
Washington Elementary School for athletics, John Michael Montana from Marian
High Kalibo Foundation, Inc. for basketball and Naomi Gwyne Ramos from Kalibo
Pilot Elementary School for chess.
Also
competing in elementary swimming are Georr Jude Briones from Infant Jesus
Academy, Tanya Ureta and Tiffany Shane
Yunsal from Lilo-an Elementary School.
Lovely
Joy Cual from New Buswang Elementary School will compete for taekwondo, Louis Anthony
Henderin and Marco Alfredo Quimpo from Infant Jesus Academy and Averille
Sacapano from Boracay Island Global Academy for tennis events.
For
secondary level, the Palarong Pambansa athletes are Jasper Jake Daliva (St.
Gabriel College), Ronel Sacapano (Panayakan National High School), John Lloyd
Salazar (Regional Science HS for Region VI) and Joseph
Matthew Sucro (St. Gabriel College) for creative/likha
anyo and full contact arnis events.
Other athletes are Angelica De Josef from Lezo Integrated
School and Jerremay Rubias from Tangalan National High School in athletics, Alea
Bianca Garingalao from Saint Gabriel College in chess and Reynan Lojera Malinao
School for Philippine Craftsmen in secondary boxing.
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