SYLVIAN Faith Calixtro Abunda will be among the student athletes expected to shine again when the athletics’ meet of the 2018 Palarong Pambansa gets going at the Quirino Stadium in Bantay, Ilocos Sur.
Last year, the 11th grader at Lantapan Stand-Alone Senior High School in Poblacion, Lantapan, Bukidnon, left her mark in the secondary girls’ javelin throw with a record-breaking heave of 42.85 meters.
She beat the previous record-holder Efrelyn Democer, also from Northern Mindanao. Democer settled for the bronze.
She made it back after earning three gold medals during the Northern Mindanao Regional Athletic Association Meet held in Oroquieta City in December 2017.
This will the fifth year that Abunda will seek a podium in the Games since she joined the Palaro as a sixth grader at Alanib Elementary School.
“You just never surrender,” said Abunda in a statement.
Last year, two meet records, including Abunda’s were set in the secondary girls’ athletics’ competition.
The Region IV-A team of Jesser Lumapas shattered the one-year-old 4×400 meter run mark with a clocking of 3:56.37.
There were a total of seven meet marks that fell in the secondary athletics’ event at that time.