Francis Ramirez choreographing Cebu Metropolis’s athletes through the CVIRAA 2023 opening ceremony in Carcar Metropolis, south Cebu. | Photograph from Sugbuanong Kodaker
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The perennial champions and the host crew of the Central Visayas Regional Athletic Affiliation (CVIRAA), the Cebu Metropolis Niños, will subject a complete of 524 athletes for the week-long meet from Might 4-9 in varied venues, right here.
The entire variety of athletes was revealed by its delegation head Francis Ramirez on Thursday through the reopening of the new-look Cebu Metropolis Sports activities Middle (CCSC) Olympic-sized pool the place CVIRAA’s swimming competitors could be held.
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In response to Ramirez, the Niños’ delegation is comprised of athletes and groups from completely different Cebu Faculties Athletic Basis, Inc. (Cesafi) member faculties and public faculties.
These Cesafi member faculties embrace the reigning Cebu Metropolis Olympics champions, the College of Cebu (UC) Site owners together with the College of San Carlos (USC), College of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R), College of the Visayas (UV) together with public faculties in Abellana Nationwide College, Cebu Metropolis Don Carlos A. Gothong Memorial Nationwide Excessive College, and the Metropolis Central Elementary College to call a couple of.
For Ramirez, he noticed the dedication and perseverance of Cebu Metropolis’s athletes after witnessing them coaching vigorously regardless of the absence of correct services for the reason that CCSC has nonetheless been below renovation, significantly its rubberized observe oval for over a 12 months already.
In response to Ramirez, he’s proud to say that they’re well-prepared to defend their ‘homecourt’ towards 19 different delegations within the meet which serves because the qualifiers for the Palarong Pambansa this July in Cebu Metropolis.
“For the previous months atong mga bata sige man ug coaching inspite atong pool ug oval wala pa nahuman, sige gihapon pangitag paagi asa sila maka apply. Plus the house courtroom benefit makaingon ta ma kuha gihapon nato ang title,” mentioned Ramirez.
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“Naay mga particular person sports activities nato nga tan-aw nako modaog gyud ta like ball video games, swimming ug athletics, pero ilaha gyud paningkamotan makuha, with the absence of our coaching services, however they’ll do their greatest to carry out.”
(We’ve got our particular person sports activities that I see that we will actually win like ball video games, swimming and athletics, however that’s they’ll work onerous to get it, with the absence of our coaching services, however they’ll do their greatest to carry out.)
The Cebu Metropolis Niños dominated final 12 months’s CVIRAA in Carcar Metropolis combining 110 gold medals with 93 silvers, and 84 bronze medals from 30 sporting occasions, surpassing its 2019 pre-pandemic medal depend of 78-63-64 (gold-silver-bronze).
In the meantime, Cebu Province got here in second with its 40-36-49 medal depend, whereas Dumaguete Metropolis closed in at third with its 38-31-44 medal tally. Mandaue (36-30-51) and Lapu-Lapu Metropolis (32-30-33) completed fourth and fifth locations, respectively.
The sixth to tenth placers within the medal tally had been Bohol Province (25-26-46), Bayawan Metropolis (23-11-14), Tagbilaran Metropolis (20-30-30), Negros Oriental (18-33-32), and Toledo Metropolis (11-13-14), respectively.
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