03 January 2006
Pangasinan hosts PRISAA Meet on February 5 to 11
SOME 4,000 athletes, coaches and school officials from various parts of the country will flock to Dagupan City and Pangasinan from Feb. 5 to 11 to take part in the 2006 National Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) Meet.
This is the biggest sporting event ever in Pangasinan since its hosting the Palarong Pambansa in 1995.
To be hosted by PRISAA Region 1 headed by Dr. Gonzalo T. Duque, also PRISAA national president and vice chairman of the national board of trustees, the meet has for its theme “Friendship and Solidarity Towards National Transformation.”
Duque, president of the Dagupan-based Lyceum-Northwestern University , led the launching of the meet last December 23 through a program and news conference at LNU.
The meet will open on Feb. 6 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen, which was designated by organizers as among several venues of the meet, along with the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome and other sites.
The athletes will see action in 12 sporting events, such as athletics, badminton, chess, baseball, basketball, softball, lawn tennis, sepak takraw, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo and volleyball.
“This is the first time that we challenged ourselves to hold the national games in Dagupan since the PRISAA was founded in 1935,” Duque said.
The last national meet was held in Zamboanga City.
Duque said the hosting of the national PRISAA meet got the needed support from Gov. Victor Agbayani, House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. and the other Pangasinan congressmen.
Also pledging their support were Mayors Benjamin Lim of Dagupan City, Amadeo Perez, Jr. of Urdaneta City, Julian Resuello of San Carlos City, Hernani Braganza of Alaminos City, Simplicio Rosario of Binmaley and Ernesto Castañeda of Lingayen. (PNA)
