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Letter of intent needed for 2013 Mini Games
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Posted on Sep 25 2011
Local federations interested in sending athletes to the 2013 Pacific Mini Games in Wallis and Futuna are required to submit a letter of intent to the Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association in November this year.
“The 2011 Pacific Games are history and we is now looking forward to the 2013 Pacific Mini Games in Wallis and Futuna,” NMASA president Michael White said in his email to association members last Friday.
White added the letter is due on Nov. 3 during the NMASA meeting and it should contain the letterhead of the sports federation and must be signed by the association president or secretary general.
“Please specify whether you will participate in men’s, women’s competition, or both. I am hoping that we will be well represented at W&F 2013 and I urge four federations to express their intention to participate,” White also said in his email,” he said.
The NMASA head is talking of Northern Marianas Athletics, Northern Mariana Islands Volleyball Association, Over the Reef Yacht Club, and Northern Mariana Islands Kanu Racing Association whose sports are included in the calendar of events in the 2013 Mini Games.
Besides athletics, beach and indoor volleyball, sailing, and va’a (canoe racing), others sports to be contested in the French-speaking nation are Rugby 7s, taekwondo, and weightlifting.
The Mini Games in Wallis and Futuna will be the ninth edition of the quadrennial event and Niue will be the defending champion in the competition. The island-nation in the South Pacific collected 32 gold medals, 26 silver, and 20 bronze in the 2009 Mini Games in Rarotonga, Cook Islands to beat the Federated States of Micronesia (23-21-21) and Tahiti (21-22-16) for the overall championship.
The CNMI joined the Mini Games in Rarotonga, but failed to make it to the medal board as only triathlete Joshua Manglona and golfer Jess Wabol represented the Commonwealth in the eighth edition of the event.
