La Trinidad, Benguet – A total of 342 wannabe cagers partook in the 36th Strawberry Festival’s basketball clinic last March 11, 2017 at the La Trinidad Municipal Gymnasium and sampled how Audience of One (A01) conducts their trainings.
A total of 250 7-12 year old participants and 92 13-17 year old enthusiasts from the different barangays of La Trinidad, Baguio City, other parts of Benguet attended the A01 Skills Showcase. These young boys and girls are studying different schools in the locality.
The session was supposed to run from 8:00AM to 11:30AM for the 7-12 age group but actually went overtime by around 30 minutes as both the mentors and participants enjoyed their time on the hardcourt. The 1:00-4:00 afternoon session was allotted to the 13-17 age group.
The younger group was taught the basics of dribbling and passing while the older ones were introduced to game plays by the A01 trainors led by Coach Mon Casuga.
The trainors, who normally loss their cool on the get go because of the unusually large number of heads they had to handle, were actually having a blast mentoring the young basketeers, who reciprocated the enthusiasm by asking eagerly “What’s next, Coach?” in anticipation of the next parts of the drill sequence.
This clinic catered to the proposed grassroots sports development of the municipality where training modules such the the A01 program may eventually find integration into the local government’s sports development programs.
Keen observers of sports development in our locality were positively drawn by the response to the event, which according to event organizers, are geared towards the positive use of developing basketball skills in order to acquire academic excellence like the ability to draw scholarship for high school and college education and give positive influence to encourage healthy habits as well as shying away from vices.
A01 is known for conducting trainings taking into consideration the passage in the bible from 2 Timothy 2:2 “Teach one, each one to play for an audience of one”. As always in the conduct of an A01 clinic, post session awards are given to participants who exhibited exemplary attitude.
By: ARMANDO M. BOLISLIS with reports from CRISTOPHER C. BANSAN.