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Tryouts for Pacific Games canoe team begins
Teams race in the 2014 Micronesian Games in Pohnpei in July. Next year, paddlers will compete in the 2015 Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea and the Northern Marianas National Paddle Sport Federation is holding a series of tryouts starting tomorrow to select the CNMI’s representatives to the quadrennial competition. (The Kaselehlie Press)
The tryouts, sanctioned by the Northern Marianas National Paddle Sport Federation, will be held every Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays until Jan. 10. The time and venue stay the same.
For now, the NMNPSF will be sending a men’s team to the 2015 Pacific Games set from July 4 to 18 in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The federation is still considering a women’s team.
Those eligible for the tryout, based on the Pacific Games charter, must be citizen of the country they will be representing and have resided for not less than five years, cumulatively.
Interested individuals will meet at Kilili Beach and paddle in the water across the beach. Objective-based criteria and methods approved by NMNPSF will be used to make sure of a fair selection of the members of the team.
Selection is based on the performances of all candidates in endurance, strength, and timed events, respectively, as well as experience, leadership, attitude, and attendance.
Last year, head coaches Justin Andrews and Dana Okano conducted the open tryouts for the 2014 Micronesian Games held last July in Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia.
The CNMI men’s team won the gold medal in the 1,500-meter event in the 2014 Micro Games. (Jon Perez)
