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Wanted: Golfers for Team CNMI
A golfer gets ready to swing during last year’s Tournament of Champions at the Laolao Bay Golf Resort. The CNMI is looking for golfers who will compete in the Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea.
(TOC Saipan)
Finalizing the criteria and other ways to select the CNMI’s Top 4 players will be the main agenda of the meeting set for 12pm at the conference room of the Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium.
Rogolifoi, who also represents golf in NMSA, said the Top 4 golfers selected will represent the CNMI in the XV Pacific Games in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea from July 4 to 18.
He added that the Refaluwasch Golf Association will be holding a series of qualifying events, starting this month to select potential members of the CNMI national men’s golf team.
The Saipan Golf Association, Fil-Taga and Marianas Golf Association are some of the other golf groups in the CNMI.
Player eligibility, registration fees, and fundraising activities are the other issues to be discussed at the meeting.
Rogolifoi is also advising interested coaches to start submitting their resumes to the NMSA sports complex office at the Ada gym.
For more information, call Rogolifoi at 2346672.
Meanwhile, NMSA has also asked all sports federations that will be sending athletes in Papua New Guinea to submit their entry by numbers on or before Jan. 16,
The CNMI will be competing only in 5 of the 26 sports to be played in the July Pacific Games. The Commonwealth will only field athletes in beach volleyball, bodybuilding, lawn tennis, athletics, and triathlon competitions.
Basketball, beach soccer, boxing, cricket, football, hockey, karate, lawn bowls, powerflifting, rugby 7s, rugby league, shooting squash, table tennis, taekwondo, touch rugby, va’a, volleyball, weightlifting, and the medal-rich swimming are the other sports offered in the 15th edition of the quadrennial sporting event. (Jon Perez)
