FILE–Philippines’ Joanie Delgaco competes within the ladies’s single sculls ultimate D of the rowing competitors at Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Centre in Vaires-sur-Marne throughout the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games on August 2, 2024. (Photograph by Bertrand GUAY / AFP)
MANILA – The “Atletang Ayala” mission of the Ayala Middle for Excellence in Sports activities will help its roster of 19 athletes all the best way, together with these dreaming of constructing it to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
This 12 months’s batch is led by Paris Olympics rower Joanie Delgaco and Paralympian Allain Ganapin of taekwondo.
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Delgaco, 26, was the primary feminine rower of the Philippines to qualify for the Olympics.
She didn’t medal in Paris however landed No. 2 total within the Division D finals.
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The opposite Ayala athletes are Amparo Acuña and Franchette Quiroz, taking pictures; Kurt Barbosa (Tokyo Olympics 2021), Child Canabal, Dave Cea, Laila Delo and Veronica Garces, taekwondo; Jason Baucas, wrestling; Abby Bidaure and Jonathan Reaport, archery; Janna Catantan, Allaine Cortey, Noelito Jose Jr., Sammuel Tranquilan and Nathaniel Perez, fencing; and John Ferrer and Leah Jhane Lopez, judo.
The 2-pronged program augments sources for coaching and competitors whereas offering alternatives for profession development.
They’re full-salaried staff with versatile work preparations in numerous Ayala corporations, lined by a well being program, which incorporates physiotherapy, power and conditioning, and sports activities psychology; have entry to world-class sports activities and health amenities at Ayala Vermosa Sports activities Hub in Cavite; and shall be granted fastened help for worldwide coaching camps and competitions.
“Atletang Ayala will assist me lots when it comes to additional help for my coaching right here and overseas. It would additionally assist me as an expert within the Ayala group, when it comes to new expertise and information imparted by this system,” Delgaco, a local of Iriga Metropolis, Camarines Sur, stated throughout the brand new batch’s launch at Ayala Triangle Tower Two in Makati Metropolis on Wednesday morning.
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Delgaco and her batchmates may even actively take part in sports-related and volunteer applications of assorted Ayala corporations and Ayala Basis for the following 4 years.
With out mentioning particular quantities, Atletang Ayala mission head Jan Bengzon stated their salaries are “very aggressive.”
“Take into consideration being at par with incentives for gold medalists,” Bengzon stated.
He stated the bemedalled athletes are ranked throughout the prime 200 of their occasions and are, realistically, almost definitely to make it huge in worldwide competitions.
“By the Atletang Ayala program, the Ayala group seeks to encourage extra Filipinos to pursue their athletic goals and convey the nation collectively by way of sports activities,” AC Mobility chief government officer Jaime Alfonso Zobel de Ayala stated in a press release.
Atletang Ayala’s first batch was fashioned in April 2022 when the Covid-19 pandemic was beginning to relax.
Bidaure and fellow archers, sister Pia and Andrea Robles; fencers Perez and Jose; swimmers Jasmine Alkhaldi and Xiandi Chua; and karateka Prince Alejo made up the preliminary batch.
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“Atletang Ayala is the group’s funding within the subsequent technology of sports activities leaders who will affect and encourage others to excel in no matter subject they select,” Ayala Basis president Tony Lambino stated.
