{"id":404499,"date":"2024-01-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404499"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"NMA-recaps-glory-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/NMA-recaps-glory-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"NMA recaps glory of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Athletics had a \u201cvery successful\u201d 2023 with events on and off island.<\/p>\n<p>NMA president Ramon Tebuteb said he cannot rate on a scale how 2023 was for the organization, but that \u201cHiccups are always anticipated. Safety is No. 1 in the scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The highlights of the year, he said, was the CNMI\u2019s first-time hosting of the 4th edition of the Oceania Cup and Oceania Masters Championships last June. He said the event \u201chighlighted the challenged athletes (special ability athletes) and our Masters folks from the Pacific region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cUnlike the Pacific Mini Games in which the CNMI hosted and funded in 2022, all expenses at these Championships were funded [through] Oceania Athletics Association and our business partners in the CNMI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A tier above that, said Tebuteb, is the \u201crecord-breaking feat by distance athlete Tania Tan at the recent 2023 Solomon Games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On what to look forward to this year, Tebuteb said it\u2019s submitted to the Northern Marianas Sports Association its required annual calendar and maintains its course-based plans. \u201cNMA especially aligns its goals and objectives to our regional OAA and World Athletics strategic world plan focusing on more people, more participation, more partners, and more fans,\u201d said Tebuteb.<\/p>\n<p>Tebuteb, on behalf of NMA, then thanked multiple entities for the success of their programs, from their private business partners, the athletes and their families who have sacrificed a lot; the volunteers; the media; and DFEMS and Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked the private schools and the Public School System \u201cfor your untiring support of our grassroots programs. Thank you to our governing body of sports, NMSA. We look forward to maintaining this relationship heading into 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/fbbe6e4e80d2406513af23cf18e5c862.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>CNMI Oceania Cup athletes pose for a photo last June during the 2023 Oceania Cup at the Oleai Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p>-CONTRIBUTED PHOTO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Athletics had a \u201cvery successful\u201d 2023 with events on and off island&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404499","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}