CEBU City will be hosting this year’s regional meet of the Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) Sports Foundation Inc. on February 17 and 18 in various venues here.
Winners of the 17th Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation Inc. (CESAFI) will be representing Cebu City against athletes from Bohol. Dumaguete will once again not be able to send representatives.
The meet will feature collegiate and the secondary competition.
The two-day multi-sporting event will have 16 sports to be contested in the collegiate division. These are athletics, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball, boxing, chess, dancesport, football, karatedo, sepak takraw, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, weightlifting and volleyball. The secondary division will only have four sporting events — athletics, basketball, swimming and weightlifting.
Most of the venues were finalized in a meeting headed by Dr. Danilo Villadolid, the technical head committee.
The Cebu City Sports Center (CCSC) will be hosting eight of the sporting events namely athletics, badminton, boxing, dancesport, football, swimming, sepak takraw and taekwondo.
The University of San Carlos (USC) will be the venue for basketball, chess and tentatively of volleyball.
Another tentative venue for volleyball is the Basak campus of the University of San Jose Recoletos (USJ-R). The same venue will host the karatedo competition.
Table tennis and weightlifting will be held at the University of Cebu (UC) gym, beach volleyball at the Plaza Independencia and tennis at the Citigreen Tennis Resort Cebu.
The bulk of Cebu City’s representatives will come from USC while the rest will come from UV, USJ-R, UC, University of Southern Philippines Foundation (USPF), and the Sacred Heart School-Ateneo de Cebu.
CESAFI athletes have gone on to represent Central Visayas in the PRISAA national tournament as they have never been defeated in the regional level.
Should they once again rule the regional meet, Central Visayas will be gunning for its fifth PRISAA overall title.