FBAA holds final awarding ceremony
‘Year 2012 a memorable one’ Best of the Rest
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 24: An exciting 2012 season came to a close this week for the Filipino Badminton Association in Ahmadi (FBAA) when they held their final awarding ceremony at the FBAA Christmas Party 2012 in the Al-Afrah Ballroom, Crowne Plaza Hotel, earlier this week.
The Ballroom was packed with FBAA members, sponsors and their representatives plus other guests who played a role in the success of FBAA in 2012, with the event being hosted by Roman Malabanan and Kenjie Corpuz who welcomed everyone to the reception.
To start off the event, the opening prayer was led by Zoe Lesaca and Jeri Rimando followed by the opening remarks by FBAA President Ron Margate who thanked all the sponsors and the guests for helping make the occasion a success.
Margate, assisted by FBAA Vice President Norman Abad, offered his special thanks to the main sponsors of the 2012 conferences and presented all of them with plaques of appreciation as follows:
Abdulhadi Almailem Trading Co - Kuwait’s exclusive distributors of Hankook Tires, Toyo Tires, Goodyear Tires, Continental & Tires - through Abhay Chaturvedi (Marketing Manager), Sunil Nanda (VP Sales and Gaurav Joshi; Worley Parsons Resources & Energy through Martin Davies (Project Director) and Richard Ferfon (Project Finance and Admin Manager); McDonalds Kuwait through Arnold Saad (Senior Operations Manager), Fadi Razek (Director of Operations), and Sager Al Maousherji (General Manager); and AMEC Natural Resources with Celso Cruz receiving the plaque on behalf of Allan Armstrong (Country Manager ESM) and Amir Khan).
Margate also acknowledged the following co-sponsors and others who helped make the year 2012 a memorable one.
Global International General Trading & Contracting Co through Bivin & Sunny Thomas; Bridge General Trading - Fouad Roh, CEO & General Manager; NADEC - Jun Panaguiton; AIM Global Philippines: Bhasin Company - Prithu Bhasin; Western Union - Evangeline Gernale of Alpha Solutions, Robert Constantino and Michael Rosales of Western Union; and the Arab Times.
Mementos were then awarded to the following special contributors: 1. Allen Miole 2. Anne Diaz 3. Gerry Torio 4. Celson Cruz Sportsmanship Award (Bronze) The following were then awarded Sportsmanship Awards. According to Margate, sportsmanship is demonstrated when you show respect for yourself, your teammates, your teammates, and your opponents, for the team captains on both the sides, and for the umpires, committees and other officials.
1. Sonny Custodio, 2. Nihar Esmula, 3. Beth Millado, 4. Rico Eustaquio, 5. Jemmo Palado, 6. Vicente Joaquin, 7. Shirley Iglesias, 8. Roma Valdez, 9. Romeo Bolos, 10. Annie Centeno, 11. Eric Farthing, 12. Aileen Perez, 13. Allan Co, 14. Tanette Tuliao, 15. Maureen Itaas, 16. Ell Parado, 17. Danilo Basco, 18. Freddie Ocampo, 19. Elmer Rivera, 20. Irwin Climaco, 21. Mark Quesada, 22. Alvin Godoy, 23. Michael Rodriguez, 24. Jay Parantar, 25. Leila Flores, 26. Robert Luague. Most Improved Player (Silver) Awards were then given to the Most Improved Players. These are players who, within the year, have improved by leaps and bounds. The following were then given these awards:
1. Noel Sarabillo, 2. Jeanette Eustaquio, 3. Freeman Gallevo, 4. Cheyenne Lampian, 5. Sheryl Banera, 6. Rommel Vizcarra, 7. Myline Tagala, 8. Ashleigh Tagala, 9. Ritz Montesclaros, 10. Belinda Valdez, 11. Noraiza Parado, 12. Ronilo Fuentes, 13. James Aguinaldo, 14. Roman Malabanan, 15. Edelyn Ocampo, 16. Marlad Aman, 17. Hammie Ita-as, 18. Franklin Monteslaros, 19. Anthony Valdez, 20. Lankey Bhavani, 21. Eric Soldevillo. Loyalty Award (Gold) A Loyalty Award is given to those players who continuously participate in FBAA tournaments for five years. The following earned this award:
1. Ryan Aguilar, 2. Hans Ita-as, 3. Brehn Garcia, 4. Allen Miole, 5. Melanie Miole, 6. Farhad Lauhari, 7. Aileen Perez, 8. Joenel Seva, 9. Lorelei Seva, 10. Aldrin Turalde.
The following outgoing Executive Committee and Committee Members (2012) were then awarded Plaques of Appreciation : Outgoing Committee Roxanne Alonzo, Vanessa Aguilar, Leeforp Alonzo, Irwin Climaco, Dianne Elamparo, Joseph “Jeb” Elamparo, Maureen Ita-as, Holden Ita-as, Benedict Garcia, Freddie Ocampo, Ell Parado, Janette Rimando, Jonathan Rimando, Elmer Rivera, Marinette Tuliao, Danilo Basco, Franklin Montesclaros, Anthony Valdez, Gerry Torio. Outgoing Executive Committee Intern Affairs Director: Ryan Aguilar External Affairs Director: Hans Ita-as Tournament Director: Arjay Lesaca Treasurer: Thess Herrera Secretary: Cathy Lesaca Vice President: Norman Abad President: Ron Margate This was followed by the oath-taking ceremony for the Executive Committee for 2013.The designations were announced by FBAA Comelec headed by Jonathan Rimando.The following were named to this committee with the oath administered by former FBAA president and currently a member of FBAA’s Board ‘Nigeria can’t have Ameobi’: Newcastle boss Alan Pardew will not allow striker Shola Ameobi to play for Nigeria at the Africa Cup of Nations in January.
The 31-year-old Ameobi, who once played for the England Under-21 side, had been named in Nigeria’s provisional squad by coach Stephen Keshi for the tournament which gets underway in South Africa on January 19.
But Pardew insists the player is needed for the English Premier League campaign.
“Shola won’t be going to that, and the national team manager knows the reasons behind that, which I am going to keep to myself,” said Pardew.
Ameobi scored the winning goal in Newcastle’s 1-0 win over QPR on Saturday after making his Nigeria debut in a 3-1 friendly win over Venezuela last month. (AFP) Sale sack social media boss: Struggling English Premiership club Sale on Monday sacked their social media executive after she launched a foul-mouthed tirade against supporters on her Facebook page.
Holleh Nowrouz, 26, was dismissed by Sharks chief executive Steve Diamond after an internal disciplinary review.
In comments posted in October, Nowrouz had written: “Oh, the joys of managing a sport club’s social media when we’ve lost the last 7 Premiership home games.”
“To the Sale Sharks fans who comment about the club needing to spend less time blogging and tweeting and more time coaching, the staff who create content for the website and social media platforms are not the same members of staff who coach the team. You absolute f***wits.”
Diamond said that Nowrouz had overstepped the mark. (AFP) Carrillo leaves intensive care: Bayonne back row forward Francois Carrillo is being moved out of intensive care as his condition improves following a suspected heart problem in the warm-up before Saturday’s Top 14 match with Mont-de-Marsan.
A hospital statement on Monday reported: “His general condition is still constantly improving. New tests are beinng conducted to determine the precise reason for the problem.”
The 24-year-old collapsed after taking the ball at a line out a few minutes before the end of the warm-up session.
A heart specialist team gave Carrillo cardiac massage before the player was taken to hospital.
“No anomalies were detected from all the tests carried out since Saturday evening,” the hospital stated. (AFP) of Advisors Tony Elamparo: Internal Affairs Director: Ryan Aguilar External Affairs Director: Joseph Elamparo Tournament Director: Arjay Lesaca Treasurer: Maureen Ita-as Secretary: Janette Rimando Vice-President: Hans Ita-as President: Ron Margate This was followed the FBAA 6th Anniversary Presentation, a FBAA video by Romeo Bolos, a surprise dance number by secretly6 selected FBAA officers and Committee members, an FBAA 2012 tournament presentation and a draw for 14 lucky winners of the AIM Global scholarship.
Towards the end of the evening there was a were a number of raffles with many taking away top prizes. The Western Union raffle (by Michael Rosales) - a unit of LED TV 32” was won by Elmer Rivera; the Trivia Game (by Cathy) saw 10 FBAA gift vouchers being given; there was a distribution of gifts for children under 10 years; a FBAA raffle with Digital cameras won by Jeremy Lindquist and Jonathan Rimando in two separate draws; and the FBAA Bingo - won by Anthony Valdez — closed out the games for the day.
At the end of the event there were closing remarks by FBAA President Ron Margate before everyone took to the floor, with DJ Hans on the music to dance the evening away.