"Lessons from the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand"

But, two years after Manila hosted the Southeast Asian Games, A 591-strong Philippine contingent will try to defend the country’s overall crown in the 24th Southeast Asian Games set in three venues in Thailand in December.

Beijing Olympic qualifiers Ryan Arabejo, Miguel Molina, and James Walsh of swimming and Tsomlee Go of taekwondo lead the list of Thailand-bound athletes named by the SEAG POC-PSC Task Force yesterday.

Filipino athletes will compete in 44 events in the 10-day sports spectacle opening on Dec. 5 at the Nakhon Ratchasima Stadium.

Three hundred fifty-six male and 235 female athletes comprise the delegation which could have their hands full defending the championship they won at home turf in 2005.

Arabejo, Molina and Walsh spearhead the swimming team that includes Daniel Coakley, Nikita Dacera, Ernest Lorenzo Dee, Ronald Guiriba, Kendrick Uy, Denjylie Cordero, Anna Celina Gonzales, Jaclyn Pangilinan, Nicole Santiago, and Erica Totten.

Go banners the taekwondo squad including Mike Alejandrino, Alexander Briones, Jeffrey Figueroa, John Paul Lizardo, Ernesto Juan Mendoza, Carlos Jose Padilla, Manuel Rivero, Kathleen Eunice Alora, Kirstie Elaine Alora, Loralie Catalan, Veronica Domingo, Mary Antoinette Rivero, Maria Criselda Roxas, Sabrina Simbulan and Esther Marie Singson.

Doha Asiad gold medalist Joan Tipon leads the 17-strong boxing team that also include Delfin Boholst, Junel Cantancio, Maraon Golez, Joegen Ladon, Wilfredo Lopez, Albert Pabila, Orlando Tacuyan Jr., Junie Tizon, Bill Vicera, Annie Albania, Alice Kate Aparri, Jouvilet Chilem, Annaliza Cruz, Josie Gabuco, Mitchelle Martinez and Renijen Sofla.

The RP Davis Cup team of Cecil Mamiit, Eric Taino, Johnny Arcilla and Patrick John Tierro seeks to sustain its romp in the games. The women’s team is composed of Czarina Mae Arevalo, Maureen Diaz, Denise Dy, and Diane Matias.

Basketball, football, futsal, lawn bowls, rugby football submitted names subject to final confirmation.

Curiously, Filipino-Am Alex Crisano, barred in the PBA due to lack of documents, is in the tentative men’s basketball lineup that also includes UAAP MVP winner Jervy Cruz and NCAA recruit Pong Escobal.

The ladies team named 12 players plus two alternates. In the list is US NCAA product, Victoria Brick.

Athletics has the largest delegation with 40 followed by softball with 34, futsal and traditional boat race with 28 each, basketball and fencing with 24, baseball 22, football 20, cycling 19, shooting 17, taekwondo 16 and sepak takraw 15.

Later, the broadcast giant GMA Network, Inc. (GMA) would decide to broadcast the games. Print advertisements say: 

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Watch the opening ceremonies of the 24th Southeast Asian Games on December 6, Thursday, 6:30PM on Q channel 11, VIA SATELLITE!!!

Replay of the Opening Ceremonies at 8:30 am Friday

The coverage of the games live from December 7, 11-14 at 9 am to noon before Balitanghali, and again from 1 pm to 8 pm and December 8 and 9 from 6 am to 9 pm on Q channel 11.

Swimming finals aired from December 7 to 11 at 7pm Manila Time, with a replay at 9 a.m. on December 8 to 12.

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The final release of banners and pins, official merchandise as well television and radio plugs is to release in August as part of the official 100-day countdown to the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand December 6 to 15, 2007.

For 11-year-old Eugene Herrera, he would have a passport and luggage to go to the said country in time for the regional sports competition. Herrera, whose birthname is Eugene Roman Ilustre Herrera born on August 31, 1996. He would be absent from his studies to give way for the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand from December 6 to 15, 2007.

By this time, La Salle’s Enchong Dee bagged the Most Valuable Player award after winning seven gold medals and setting new league records in the 50m butterfly (26.03 seconds), 100m butterfly (56.38 sec), and 400m individual medley (4:47.30 minutes). Teammate Maxim Quilala won Rookie of the Year.

Enchong is included in the elite list of RP swimmers going to Thailand this December for the SEA Games so him winning 7 golds in the UAAP is actually nothing new. Can somebody tell this kid to stick to swimming instead of acting? He can do better helping the cause of RP swimming than playing love interest to so and so teens of ABS-CBN.

I spoke to him on this...he's obviously taking my advice in that he's milking his 15 minutes of fame for all that it's worth and will later focus on swimming and acting when his star begins to fade.

Enchong is a smart dude...he knows what he's doing good to hear this.

we've seen so much stars who were either good in academics or are potential athletic wonder but were reduced to nothing due to serving two masters at the same time. Enchong is one of those kids who I find smart and can really contribute to RP swimming that is why I find it to crappy seeing him singing and dancing when the SEA Games is just around the corner. But if he needs additional income which the PSC cant provide then why not but could you tell this guy to take swimming first then acting ...uhhmmmm 10th on the list? : laugh:

anyways he is a good swimmer, 'nuf said.

ayos yan si enchong...i guess he should be the AOY for season 70...mahirap ang ginagawa niya...he should better called student-athlete-showbiz personality

congrats! Halos 1 month na tapos ang swimming competition pero it's all good...

TV host and former actor Paolo Abrera and Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino general manager Marco Protacio says Dee is included in the elite list of RP swimmers going to Thailand this December for the SEA Games. Dee was on hiatus as an entertainer and Cebu-based businessman Jeremy Huang as his relief co-host for the daily noontime game and variety show "Eat... Bulaga!" broadcasting live from the SM Mall of Asia Cinemas (converted into a studio).

Jeremy Huang, banker and basketball player, he was being a substitute host for Mister Dee due to his participation in the UAAP swimming competitions of 2007, 2008 and 2009.

He added that Mister Dee is away due to showbiz and sports commitments, and he did a comedian anymore.

Molina sa SEA Games 

PINANGUNAHAN ni Miguel Molina ang 14-kataong national swimming team na sasabak sa 2007 Thailand Southeast Asian Games sa Disyembre. 

Bukod kay Molina, kasama sa men’s squad sina 2007 UAAP swimming MVP Enchong Dee, Ryan Arabejo, JB Walsh, Ken Uy, Lambert Guiriba, Dan Coakley at Nikita Dacera. 

Kabilang sa magbabakasakali ng gintong medalya sa distaff side sina Harvard standout Jackie Pangilinan, Erica Totten, Marichi Gandionco, Nikki Santiago, Denjylie Cordero at Celina Gonzales. 

Ang Pilipinas ay nanalo ng apat na gintong medalya sa 2005 edition.

However, the addition of now UP Maroon Tanker Gian Daniel Berino in the 2007 Thailand Southeast Asian Games as a teammate to Arabejo in 1,500 freestyle and Uy in 100-meter freestyle and Molina in the 200-meter freestyle and 400-meter individual medley. Berino was a student of the University of Santo Tomas High School and he would participate again in 2009.

Olympic berths stir well-honed RP swimmers 

By Ernesto Gonzales

We'll do better this time. 

With three stalwarts already clinching Olympic berths and three more expected to join them by qualifying here, the Philippine Amateur Swimming Association expects to easily surpass its previous four-gold effort at the 24th Southeast Asian Games which begins in earnest here Friday. 

PASA president Mark Joseph said the swimmers could win as many as six golds with female tankers Erica Totten, Maria Georgina Gandionco and Jaclyn Pangilinan now looming as strong golden bets as they pursue slots in next year's Beijing Olympics. 

"I think these girls will hurdle the Olympic qualifying standards in their respective events, and to achieve that, they have to win," said Joseph, a former crack swimmer himself who is also the deputy secretary general of the Philippine Olympic Committee. 

Miguel Molina, who won three of the four golds two years ago at the Trace Aquatic Center in Los Baños, Laguna, remains the cornerstone of RP's aquatics drive, but he will get able support this time from James Walsh and Ryan Arabejo. 

The three became the first three Filipinos to secure Olympic slots, with Molina surpassing the standard in the 200-meter individual medley, Walsh in the 200m butterfly and Arabejo in the 1,500m freestyle. 

Also seeing action for the national team that also picked up five silver and six bronze medals in 2005 are Daniel Coakley, Nikita Dacera, Lorenzo Dee, Ronald Guiriba, Kendrick Uy, Denjylie Cordero, Anna Celina Gonzalez and Nicole Santiago. 

The country actually finished with a 9-7-8 gold-silver-bronze performance two years ago with the divers responding with five victories, three by Sheila Mae Perez, and water polo again contributing a silver medal. 

The diving team is virtually intact but Joseph said Sheila and Co. face the prospect of performing before judges expected to be biased to please the host country. 

"You never know, but winning is expected to be harder this time," he said. 

As for water polo, Joseph said only the lack of exposure prevents the country from ending Singapore's long domination of the sport. 

"We have the talent, the Singaporeans fear us, but we cannot win. Why? Well, our water polo team saw action in Australia and fared well, but that's just one meet, while the Singaporeans have competed in 12 international meets so far."

That free TV channels GMA and QTV (later Q channel 11) to go 24 hours in time for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. GMA and Q would go 24 hours a day, seven days a week by July 2006. The network's showbiz talk show "S-Files" replaces "Showbiz Central" on April 29 this year, which would have scheduled programs.

"We cannot sleep, because of airing programs at late-night and early morning. ABS-CBN is airing "Gising Pilipinas!" and GMA is airing "Umaga Na, Balita Na", before the morning shows "Umagang Kay Ganda" and "Unang Hirit". GMA's sister station Q to air the coverage before "News on Q" at 9pm, December 6, 2007.

For Probe Productions, Inc. president Cheche Lazaro and Paolo's mother Emily Abrera, they want to have on a big budget for GMA's airing of the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, after the station aired the 1991 edition in Manila.

"The vision of TV host German "Kuya Germs" Moreno is saying "Walang Tulugan", because GMA would go 24 hours a day, seven days a week on May 12, 1992.

GMA chairman Felipe Gozon says the main GMA channel will have a proposed budget to cover Manny Pacquiao fights for 2007 and 2008 and two multi-sporting events.