Iloilo City will host the staging of the National Private Schools and Athletics Association Games next year, an official of the Western Visayas PRISAA said yesterday.

In a recent meeting at the Iloilo Doctor's College, the Region VI PRISAA board of directors agreed to give Iloilo the responsibility of hosting the national school-based meet since Western Visayas has been tasked to stage the Games, Fr. Emilio Jaruda, president of the WV PRISAA, said.

Pangasinan hosted the National PRISAA Games for Luzon last month, while Zamboanga staged the national competitions in behalf of Mindanao in 2005. The Western Visayas contingent, powered by its tankers, brought home the overall championship of the National PRISAA Games for the past two years.

Jaruda, who was the presiding officer of the meeting, said that the Iloilo PRISAA will take charge in the preparations of the national tertiary hostilities, adding that the local government of Iloilo should also be tapped to provide financial assistance for the sprucing up of the different sports venues and facilities.

The board members of the Region VI PRISAA will also decide on the proposed schedule of national games soon to be submitted to the National PRISAA board of directors, he said.

Most probably, the Western Visayas PRISAA officials will propose to hold the national school-based meet in April next year because the national competitions has always been staged during the summer except for this year, he added. Officials from Negros who joined Jaruda during the meeting were Roger Banzuela, athletic manager and technical committee chairman of the WV PRISAA, Sally Agtoto of University of St. La Salle, Rudy Reveche of Colegio de San Agustin-Bacolod, Jane Vale of Riverside College and Ericson Rios of University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos.

During the recent national games in Pangasinan, the National PRISAA board of directors also planned to hold the national meet in the secondary level to scout for possible athletes in the collegiate level. *CIT

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