The Creamline Cool Smashers, the Philippine national dragon boat team, and several others will be honored at the upcoming Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) Awards Night at the Manila Hotel.
In addition to Creamline and the dragon boat squad, the NCAA, Philippine Volcanoes, weightlifter Angeline Colonia, jiu-jitsu athlete Isabella Joseline Butler, and powerlifter Regie Ramirez will be recognized for their achievements in 2024.
Gymnastics hero Carlos Yulo leads the 2024 honor roll as the Athlete of the Year, while 12 others will also be honored, cited by the PSA.
The awardees include Johann Chua and Albert James “AJ” Manas (billiards), Carl Eldrew Yulo (gymnastics), Ruelle Canino (chess), Kheith Rhynne Cruz (table tennis), Marc Dylan Custodio (bowling), Mark John Lexer Galedo (cycling), Lovely Inan (weightlifting), the Philippine baseball team, Centennial 7 (sailing), Jessa Mae Tabuan (powerlifting), and Ramon “Tats” Suzara (volleyball).
The Filipino paddlers had a dominant performance in the ICF Dragon Boat World Championship in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, where they emerged as overall champion, while the Philippine Volcanoes scored a twin kill in the men’s and women’s divisions of the Asia Rugby Emirates Sevens Trophy in Nepal.
Colonia bagged gold medals in the snatch and total lift in the 45kg class of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Junior Championships in Spain; Butler did the same in the 18-under -57kg class of the JJIF World Championships in Heraklion, Greece; and Ramirez, along with Tabuan, also went home with gold medals in their respective campaigns in the World Open Equipped Powerlifting Championships in Iceland and the World Juniors Powerlifting Championships in Malta.
The Cool Smashers maintained their dominance in women’s volleyball by sweeping all three tournaments of the Premier Volleyball League, while Yulo had another fruitful gold harvest in the Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Uzbekistan, the Pacific Rim Championship in Cali, Colombia, and the Hong Kong Invitational.
Canino topped the National Women’s Championship and helped Team Philippines snare the Group B gold in the Budapest Chess Olympiad; Inan scored a couple of golds in the (IWF) World Juniors Championships in Spain; and Cruz provided Philippine table tennis a new milestone in ruling the Under-19 girls’ singles division of the WTT Youth Contender Westchester in New York and sweeping all medal classifications from different events in the US Table Tennis Open in Las Vegas.
Over in Vietnam, Chua ruled the Hanoi Open 9-Ball Championship and played a key part in Team Asia beating Team Europe for the inaugural Reyes Cup, while Manas topped the 99 Billiards Club Tournament in the same country.
Custodio emerged champion in the 10th DIBC-Delta Open Bowling Tournament in Dubai and was a major part of Team Philippines’ triumph in the team of four event in the Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. Galedo also won the title in the Tour of Guam at age 39, and the Filipino batters scored a five-peat in the East Asia Baseball Cup held in Clark, Pampanga.
Lastly, Suzara was elected president of the Asian Volleyball Confederation and appointed as executive vice president of the Federation Internationale de Volleyball, while the Centennial 7 became the first Philippine boat and the first all-Filipino crew to compete in the prestigious Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
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