‘Students to enjoy’

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Kelera Taria of Blue House and Vonosia Raibuliwai of Green House compete for fi rst place during the intermediate girls 400m fi nal at the Marist Champagnat Institute inter-house event at the ANZ Stadium in Suva yesterday. Picture: JOVESA NAISUA

MARIST Champagnat Institute aims for their students to enjoy taking part in their inter-house meet while focusing on the Suva Zone two competition.

Meet manager Ritesh Prasad says majority of the students who joined the institute faced problems of being accepted in the community.

“We’re not only focusing on the zone or the Coca-Cola Games, what we want is that our athletes take part and they enjoy it,” he said.

“It’s important that our students enjoy themselves while they are participating because this makes them feel comfortable and also to show them they have their own talent.

“We don’t have much competition, so this is actually an encouragement to the students to have full participation in events. Prasad said they had been training ever since school started this year.

They took a break after TC Ana ravaged the country.

He said they came back and continued with their training and made sure that all students took part in training.

“After this inter-house we will than select our squad and then from there will continue with our training.

“We have some good runners and we will bank on the long distance athletes.

“We’re looking at our sub junior and junior athletes who will carry the name of the school but apart from that it’s going to be a tough competition for us.”

He added that they have students in the school who have disabilities, but that does not mean they are excluded from events.

“Everyone takes part and we encourage them to at least take two or three events.”

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