DAVAO City-born pool master Lee Vann Corteza and lady golfer Chihiro Ikeda receive special citations in the 16th So Kim Cheng Sports Awards Thursday night at the Pantawan Hall of Pagcor, Grand Regal Hotel.
Davao City Sports Council Inc. (DCSCI) president Peter Laviña Thursday said Corteza was chosen to receive the recognition having ruled the US Open 10-Ball in Las Vegas, Nevada and 1st Annual Hard Times-Mezz Cues 10-Ball Open in Los Angeles, California.
Ikeda's Southeast Asian (SEA) Games double gold medal finish in Vientiane, Laos earned her the accolade.
"These two athletes were nominated by the council itself since their sports don't have duly-recognized NSA (National Sports Association) representative in the area," Laviña said in Thursday's Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) Forum at the Tower Inn.
Laviña, however, admitted there are other deserving athletes who didn't make it to the list of this year's awardees since their sports have no representation in the council or they were not nominated by their respective NSA officials.
He also said a few NSAs like badminton and sepak takraw didn't have nominees since there were no expectional performers the past year.
"Football also has no representation but we will give citation to the Davao Region secondary boys football team that won the gold in the Palarong Pambansa," Laviña said.
He added that the DCSCI, which has a total of 21 member NSAs, is bent on inviting other NSAs to join its fold.
Pedro San Jose, the dynamic president of the Regional Private Schools Athletic Association (Prisaa), will be recipient of the leadership award while Mindanao Times photographer Edgar Arro, a DSA member, will be given the posthumous award.
The DCSCI chief said Asean+ Age-Group Chess Championships (AAGCC) double gold medalist Austin Jacob Literatus was nominated by chess representative Ronnie Tabudlong only in the second DCSCI selection process after the Asean meet ended.
Laviña said Tabudlong already had a set of nominees even before Literatus's sterling finish in Subic and that this was the reason the council approved to stand by the first nomination made by Tabudlong.
Aside from Literatus, others who could have made it to the SKC list of awardees are John Ray Batucan, who got a gold, a silver and two bronzes in the AAGCC, Rowelyn Joy Acedo (AAGCC three silvers, three bronzes), Ella Grace Moulic (AAGCC one gold, two silvers), Irish Yngayo (AAGCC two silvers, one bronze), Dhona Yngayo (AAGCC two silvers, one bronze), Engelbert Moralde (Asian World Youth Boxing Championship bronze in Tehran, Iran) and Ni¤o Carog (SEA Games diving two silvers).
Athletes who also performed well were Ruth Dugaduga (SEA Games judo bronze), Davao Oriental's Twinnie Joy Delfinan and Debbie Ace Songcuya (Palaro tennis gold), Jenni Dizon (Palaro tennis silver and bronze), Davao Oriental's Jeleardo Amazona (Palaro tennis bronze), Jhon Albert Albarico (29th Gojukai Karatedo Championships two golds in Singapore) and Leira Cyla Reyes (Palaro taekwondo gold), among others.
Published in the Sun.Star Davao newspaper on July 23, 2010.
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