EDUCATION LEADERS. Art Bayocot of Northern Mindanao Education Department delivers a powerful message at the event, joined by distinguished guests Senate President Migz Zubiri, Bukidnon Governor Oniel Roque, Superintendent Victoria V. Gazo, and SGOD Chief Rey Adajar. (Photos supplied)
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SOME 2,000 young athletes and audiences from Bukidnon showed their great sport skills at the 2024 Division Athletic Meet. The event was from February 29 to March 2, 2024. 

It was in Kibawe, a pretty place in Bukidnon, said one of the tournament directors Johnmark Oligario, school head of the Lapok Ementary School in Talakag, Bukidnon.

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“The new Kibawe Sports Complex was full of fun and noise,” said Oligario adding students from four parts of Bukidnon came to play different sports.

He said important visitors came too. Art Bayocot from the Northern Mindanao Education Department, Senate President Migz Zubiri, Bukidnon Governor Oniel Roque, Superintendent Victoria V. Gazo, and SGOD Chief Rey Adajar were all there.

The mayors from different places in Bukidnon came to watch and cheer. They showed they care about the young players and being fair in sports.

Athletes and people who run sports from all over Bukidnon met at the Kibawe Sports Complex. They were ready to do their best and win.

“More than 2,000 people came to watch. They clapped and cheered for the teams they like,” said Oligario.

Players did their best in sports like running, basketball, volleyball, swimming, table tennis and many more, said Oligario. 

The meet was a chance for young players to do well and for everyone to enjoy sports together.

The sports place was full of loud cheers. This made the players want to do even better. They were all trying hard and being good sports.

“The 2024 Kibawe sports meet was about more than just who won,” Oligario said who is the assigned tournament director for table tennis.

It brought people together and made everyone feel proud. It showed that sports can help people be friends, work well in a team, and keep trying hard.

Oligario said, the meet was a big success. It showed that it’s good to have places to play sports and programs to help young athletes grow.

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Ben Balce is this newspaper's Associate Editor. Before joining the Gold Star Daily, Ben worked as the regional correspondent for northern Mindanao of Malaya, (now Business Insight) and Abante, both Manila-based national newspapers. Ben joined Gold star daily in 1997 as a city reporter. After 3-months, he was appointed by Gold Star Daily's publisher Ernesto G. Chu, to be the paper’s editorial cartoonist. Ben was a newspaperman and an editorial cartoonist of Gold Star Daily for more than ten years. He was also commissioned as the Executive Editor of the Quarterly Newsletter of the Police Regional Office 10 (PRO-10) from 2002 to 2007. Ben was a regular member of local and international news organizations, which includes among others Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC), National Union of Journalist in the Philippines (NUJP), Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (Pecojon).