CALBAYOG CITY – Officials of the Department of Education Leyte Division are optimistic that they will once again bring home the beacon in this year’s Eastern Visayas Regional Athletics Association here in this city.
For four years now, the Leyte delegation has always been declared as the over-all champion of EVRAA.
In an interview with Rogelia Urbino from Leyte DepEd Division and also the regional physical education supervisor, she said that athletes from their division are prepared for the competition. Around 500 athletes from various elementary and secondary schools in the province of Leyte competing for the EVRAA, to include aroun 100 coaches, officiating members and DepEd officials from their division and staff.
Ubina added that among the expected athletes to produce medals for the Leyte delegation are the scholars of the Leyte SportsAcademy, a priority program of the provincial government of Leyte through Governor Jericho “Icot” Petilla that helps to enhance the ability of every student athletes in their respective field of sports.“We are thankul for the support that the governor had provided to all our athletes from the start of our training until this very day of competition,” Urbina said.
She added that trainings provided to the athletes in the academy ensured an exemplary performance for an athlete which is why they are hoping to top once again this year’s regional sporting event.
Among the sports where they are expecting to win gold medals are boxing, taekwondo, athletics, baseball, softball, swimming, chess, table tennis, sipa, sepak takraw and tennis.
Meanwhile,Calbayog City Mayor Reynaldo Uy said that he is not hoping for their athletes to top the medal standings in the competition.
The city government of Calbayog had allocated P5.9 million for the staging of this year’s EVRAA competition while Samar First District Representative Mel Senen Sarmiento provided P500,000 as support to the city government.
“We are hosting the competition right now and we are not expecting to be on top of the medal standing but what we can only assures is we will provide a good fight in every field of sports were our athletes are to compete,” Uy said. (Roel Amazona)
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