{"id":269884,"date":"2018-02-12T06:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=269884"},"modified":"2018-02-12T06:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:04:16","slug":"new-board-eyes-revive-badminton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/new-board-eyes-revive-badminton\/","title":{"rendered":"New board eyes to revive badminton"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_269889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-269889\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nmbapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-269889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newly elected president Merlie Tolentino, seated center, joins the board and other officers of the Northern Marianas Badminton Association after the group\u2019s election last Friday at the TSL Sports Complex. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Merlie Tolentino was elected president of the Northern Marianas Badminton Association to lead a new set of board members that aims to revive the sport after more than a year of inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino thanked the NMBA members for their trust and said that she would immediately meet with the new board to plan the group\u2019s calendar of events for this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your trust and for giving me the responsibility to lead our association and serve as your president. Now, it\u2019s time to unite so we could move forward and revive badminton,\u201d said Tolentino.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Hilario and Tommy Kim were elected as first and second vice president, while Jaja Samonte, Elna Curate, Hannah Choi, Lani Santos, and Patrick Fernandez joined them in the board. Tolentino, who replaced Tae Ho Kim, appointed Christy Villaflor as NMBA\u2019s secretary general after the group\u2019s election. Shirley Kim remains as the group\u2019s treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>Tolentino said that one of their plans is to hold a short tournament just to get the members\u2019 interest, especially the youth, back into the sport. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just like a revival tournament. The board will have to meet so we could come up with the format. There won\u2019t be any registration yet, but you need to be an active member in order for you to join. We\u2019re going to come out with the format soon,\u201d the new NMBA head said.<\/p>\n<p>Tae Ho Kim, in his message, also thanked the group for giving him the chance to serve as president. \u201cI thank all of you for the opportunity to lead our group. I wish the new board to be successful with its plans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlie Tolentino was elected president of the Northern Marianas Badminton Association to lead a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":269889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8179,3084,199,12073],"class_list":["post-269884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-merlie-tolentino","tag-nmba","tag-sport-2-2","tag-tae-ho-kim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}