SPORTSFEST 2019
July 9, 2020

Access Computer and Technical Colleges celebrates the annual
Sport Festival held at the Smart
Araneta Coliseum. Students from
different campuses gathered to be
part of this event. Cheer dancers and
dancers for Dance Sports readied
themselves. Everyone feels nervous
as their feet touch the floor of
Araneta.
It is a yearly battle of talents
and skills. Students who have skills
in dancing as well as in basketball are
given the chance to show their capabilities.
March 7, 2019 at 8 o’clock
in the morning is the exact time for
the opening of the event. As Filipinos who’ve practically embraced the
Filipino time, students did not came
at the exact time. There are number of
late comers. The first group who performed was not given a large amount
of audience which can be basically
affect their performance as audience
impact is one of the criteria of the
overall winning result.
Ten in the morning was when
the chairs of coliseum was filled.
Every student from different campuses are excited to watch their own
campus to perform. They assured that
their presence was not only to comply
for grades but to support their fellow
students and friends who happened to
be there to perform. Everyone can’t
wait to see newly creative choreography of cheer dance and dance sports,
thunderous shout of basketball
player’s name would be heard all
overall the coliseum, Girls are cheering their idols.
As basketball had started,
students who belong in that branch
are focus to watch the game while
some students are busy using their
phone, some are looking for the perfect spot, while others are taking photos and selfies. There are just really some students who can’t appreciate
sports and technically got no interest in that field. But as the score of
two teams get closer, all eyes are
focused on the ball and who’s holding it. Everybody got conscious about
the time, every second is important.
Some students are standing because
of the thrilled they felt, different noises were heard during that moment.
For the players of basketball, everyone can sense nervousnes, and their
eager to win. The other teams were
trying their best to reach the score of
their opponent. But as 5 seconds left,
another thunderous shout was heard
all overall the coliseum as they
announce whose team won.
Each player from basketball
show their strength, perseverance,
hard work and competitiveness to
achieve victory. Students that serve
as an audience also play an important role in their victory, the supports
and effort of shouting would be a
good source of motivation as well as
the trust they invest to the team. All
teams deserve to be awarded and to
receive an applause for giving a nice
and fair battle, their hard work during their practice has been paid off
because of the warm support of their
classmates and friends. But there is
only one champion and that was from
Recto Campus.
After the game, cheer dancers
hit the floor. The audience get along
with the beat, the swift steps of
dancers were terrific. The formation
was captivating and really fun to
watch. A lot of domino effects were
shown, and really fascinating to look
at. The unique choreography and formation made it all. The crowd shouts
each campus’ name, singing along
with the song. It was a very fun experience for everyone. During this moment you will not see anyone whose
attention is not on the floor because everyone was focus, criticizing and
giving comment to every performers.
There’s a lot of side comment, some
good and some bad, since everyone has their own standards. Each
campus held its banner, where name
was written. A lot of stuff wearing
the color of their campus. Yellow is
for Camarin, orange for Zabarte and
so on. As the cheer dancers heat the
floor audience can’t help but to cheer
them, because of how good they are
at dancing. And when all cheer dance
teams performed, audience had
started to think and gave thier own
judgement on which team performed
the best and deserve to win. Luckily,
Cubao campus won as the Champion.
During their performance all students
admired them, no bad comments,
everyone applaused, not just their
own campus but all the campuses
that’s why no wonder they won.
Dance sports is the last among
the performers and they dance simultaneously. Audience are confused
where their eyes should lay on.
Every dancer from dance sports wear
their amazing, glimmering outfit that
can really catch up everyone’s attention and can really standout from the
crowd. Dance sports’ choreography
has a bit daring moves, and whenever
people see some strange steps that is
far from unusual, the coliseum has
shaken because of their thunderous
shout as well as their laughers.
Access Computer and Technical Colleges has a lot of students
and that’s what the event revealed.
Not just a student but a talented
student and students who can
also inspire others to showcase
their talents they’re hiding within.
SPORTSFEST that is annually celebrated is a great experience
to everyone.
-Alfred Tulon-an and Mary Rose Blasco