{"id":33373,"date":"2014-04-25T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=33373"},"modified":"2014-04-25T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:16:20","slug":"yvonne-lead-cnmi-tracksters-micro-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/yvonne-lead-cnmi-tracksters-micro-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne to lead CNMI tracksters in Micro Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33384\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/issx9999ns155227.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33384\" alt=\"From left, Lia Rangamar, Reylynn Sapong, Rachel Abrams, and Yvonne Bennett are seen here with their third place medals during the Oceania Regional Championships 2012 at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO) \" src=\"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/issx9999ns155227-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Lia Rangamar, Reylynn Sapong, Rachel Abrams, and Yvonne Bennett are seen here with their third place medals during the Oceania Regional Championships 2012 at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI is sending a team to the athletics competition in the 2014 Micronesian Games in Pohnpei in July with sprint queen Yvonne Bennett leading the squad.<br \/>\nNorthern Marianas Athletics head coach Elias Rangamar in an email to Saipan Tribune yesterday confirmed the group\u2019s participation in the quadrennial event scheduled from July 20 to 29. Trials are ongoing, but Yvonne, her twin sister Yvette, and three other off-island athletes have committed to the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will have several of our top off-island athletes returning to represent CNMI in Pohnpei. Notable names include, reigning sprint queen Yvonne Bennett, her sister Yvette and multi-event athletes Jacque Wonenberg and Lia Rangamar. There is also the Guam-based Michael Mancao, who is our record holder in the 800m,\u201dRangamar said.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne topped the 100m, 200m, and 400m events in the 2012 Micronesian Games in Palau and set record times in the 100m and 200m, earning her the fastest women\u2019s tag in the region. She also anchored the team to victory in the 4x100m relay race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking to have 20 to 25 athletes on the team. Brandon Phillip will be the new anchor of our men\u2019s sprint team with the departure of CNMI and Micronesian record holder Tyrone Omar,\u201d the NMA head coach added. \u201cI will submit all 25 names because we still have up to the technical meeting to finalize our roster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for their medal target, Rangamar is hoping that the team will equal if not surpass its performance in Palau four years ago. The CNMI won 13 golds, five silvers, and seven bronzes in the athletics competition of the 2010 edition of the Micro Games.<\/p>\n<p>Online fundraiser<br \/>\nMeanwhile, NMA has launched an online fundraiser for the team\u2019s campaign in this year\u2019s Micro Games.<\/p>\n<p>Interested donors can check the gofundme.com website and type key words Athletics competition in Pohnpei.<\/p>\n<p>NMA is hoping to raise $35,000 to help defray the cost of the team\u2019s trip to Pohnpei. Each delegate needs about $800 for the airfare alone (United Airlines is charging $678 per person plus taxes, which are subject to change), while per diem is $50. No financial assistance from either the government or Northern Marianas Amateur Sports Association has been made at press time and the organizing committee in Pohnpei has set the deadline for submission of entries by names on May 19. NMASA has scheduled an earlier deadline\u2014May 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The CNMI is sending a team to the athletics competition in the 2014 Micronesian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":33384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,845,319],"class_list":["post-33373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-micro-games","tag-palau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}