Coseteng Cup this May
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Mon, 30 Apr 2012
Efforts to continue with the renewed the search for new, young talents through a grassroots program, the Philippine Swimming League and the Diliman Preparatory School have scheduled the Second Sen. Nikki Swimming Championships on May 19-20 at the Rizal Memorial pool.
Inspired by the resounding success the First Sen. Nikki Coseteng Cup had accomplished, the PSL and DPS are teaming-up anew to identify more talents that will be rrained and develop to become members of the national teams.
The two-day meet is actually part of the agreement PSL and DPS, on one hand, entered with the Philippine Sports Commission and Federation of Schools Sports Association of the Philippines, on the other, aimed at sending competitive national team to the World University Games.
Winners of the two-day competitions and those of the first staging will then meet in a face off the decide the national swimming squad to the Universiade, Coseteng herself announced during Friday?s SCOOP Sa Kamayan session.
Outstanding products of the opening league of the program, headed by Kevin Claveria and Paula Cayanan, who both passed the motivational United States AAAA standard set by the Olympian Susan Papa-headed PSL, led a selection currently in Hong Kong carrying the country?s colors in an international competitions held there over the weekend.
The PSL set the norm to make sure that the talents the program might identified will have a future becoming a national swimmer.
?The Philippine Aquatic Sports Association the organization recognized by the POC (Philippine Olympic Committee) continues to give us recognition, but let it not be said that the DPS and the PSL are not doing anything to provide the grass root program the PASA continues to ignore,? the former lawmaker told her audience during the forum.
?We are actually doing what the PASA have, for the last three, four decades, failed to do,? the fiery first woman to own and manage a team in the pro PBA, stressed during the forum sponsored by Powerade, AKTV and FILA.
?The PASA, you see continues to rely on Fil-foreign tankers to represent the county in the international area as SEA Games, Asian Games and Olympic Games, she said. ?Problem is they looked to have ran out of Fil-foreign talents.
?We might not get the recognition from the POC and PASA, but that doesn?t stop us from bringing honors to the country, and with flying colors, through the University Games and other competitions under FESSAP and the International Schools Sports Federation.
?Eh ang PASA, ano na nangyari? While in 2003 Filipino swimmers are tops in Asian Age-group competitions, last year, barely decade after, kulelat na tayo sa SEA Games, the lowest form of regional sporting meet,? Coseteng bewailed.
The daughter of the PBA founding father Emerson Coseteng thanked the PSC and its chair, Ritchie Garcia for allowing the DPS and PSL the use of the RMSC pool.
?At least nagagamit na naming ang Rizal Memorial not unlike before when we were banned from even entering the government-owned facility,? she said.
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