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NMA recognizes athletes of the month
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Posted on Nov 02 2005
Northern Marianas Athletics recognized four athletes for their achievements this past month during a meeting yesterday.
Taking top honors for October were runners Champ Untalan and Jackie Wonenberg as well as throwers Dolores Rangamar and Sidro Tebuteb. The four put up impressive performances in the recent qualifying trials for the upcoming 2005 Micronesian Athletics Championships.
The four athletes are also NMA’s bets for the Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association’s October Athletes of the Month awards. NMASA honors athletes on four categories each month—male athlete, female athlete, student male athlete, and student female athlete.
Last Saturday, Wonenberg broke her personal best in the 400m with a time of 1:05.64 and followed it up by dominating the 100m sprint as she crossed the finish line in 14.25 seconds.
She then capped her day by taking top honors in the 800m after completing the two-lap race in 2:52.49.
Untalan was also sharp and ran like the wind to top the 800m event in 2:38. 26. He then won a neck-and-neck 1,500m race after finishing in 5:06.54, just .02 seconds ahead of Tinian’s Reggie Ayuyu (5:06.56).
He also placed third in the 400m race, resting after running for 1:03.11.
Untalan is NMA’s candidate for the youth male award, while Wonenberg is the organization’s candidate for the youth female award.
For her part, Rangamar topped two of the three throwing events to earn her nomination
She registered a throw of 28.25 meters in the discus and secured her second win of the day after she threw the javelin 22.97 meters across the field.
Rangamar also took second place in the shot put with a throw of 8.28 meters.
Tebuteb, meanwhile, topped the shot put with a throw of 10.89 meters, as well as the discus (35.89), and placed second in the javelin (44.97).
