Sports: WVRAA Officials Set Venues for the 18 Sports Events
The 2012 Western Visayas Regional Athletic Association (WVRAA) technical officials has set different venues for 18 sports events to be contested in the regional sports competition slated on March 12 to 16, 2012 at Panaad Park and Sports Stadium in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City.
Romeo Sison, Department of Education (DepEd) Provincial Sports head in coordination with Department of Education Regional Director Mildred Garay and Regional Task Force in School Sports head Juliet P. Braga disclosed that archery , baseball, girls’ basketball secondary football,softball, secondary tennis and elementary volleyball will be played at Paglum Sports Complex.
However, there are alternative venues for boys’ basketball in NOMPAC football at Bacolod City National High School, elementary tennis at Panaad Park and Sports Stadium, and secondary volleyball at Unversity of St. La Salle-Integrated School Covered Court.
Arnis, athletics boxing, secondary football, sepak takraw, sipa, swimming, table tennis, elementary tennis will be played at Panaad Park and Sports Stadium.
St. Benilde School is also an alternative venue for seak takraw and sipa.
Chess will be played at Panaad VIP Lounge at 4th floo,rsecondary table tennis at Lopue’s San Sebastian, taekwondo at Negros Occidental High School Covered Gym and cultural at University of St. La Salle Coliseum.
The host province is eyeing two famous sportsmen as guest of honors. Sison said pound-for-pound and eight division champions and Saranggani Congressman Manny Pacquiao and Escalante-born PBA player James Yap will be the opening ceremony guests.
Braga said that they are implementing striker rules and guidelines to discipline different athletes. Their respective coaches will monitor them and the coaches will be the one to be summoned of their lapses. She also told them to be happy, faithful and most important to be honest in making their reports to avoid similar incident last year in Iloilo City.
Three famous festival events in Negros Occidental will showcase their numbers during “showtime” of the opening ceremony. The three are San Carlos City “Pintaflores”, Kabankalan “Sinulog” and La Castellana “Bailes de Luces.
Arriving of delegations and ocular inspection of athletes and coaches will start March 7 until the afternoon of March11, 2012.
About 2,000 athletes from the six provinces hoping are expected to arrive with the winners will compose the Western Visayas delegation to the forthcoming 2012 Palarong Pambansa in Lingayen, Pangasinan.* (CMGarde)
