The Elementary School Competition (ESC) Volleyball Finals for girls will not be just an ordinary championship game this time as there will be barbecue and family activities following the game.
“Instead of having it as pure competition, we want to treat them to a get-together with their parents and friends by having some barbecue after,” said Andrew Tabelual, Principal, Koror Elementary School (KES).
KES takes sports seriously through its Build the Body and Mind (BBM) club. “It’s a sports club that we started just last year,” said Joanne Donna Udui, BBM Director, KES Sports Club. “We teach the kids the right and proper way to play sports, like volleyball, basketball and baseball.”
The sixth, seventh and eighth graders who will vie for the ESC Volleyball championship are both teams from KES.
“This is the first time that both our girls’ teams have made it to the championship,” Udui said proudly. “First of all it’s the first time that it has ever been done. Another is the fact that the girls only had two weeks to practice for this.”
According to Principal Tabelual, International Inspiration helps Palau students become more outgoing by teaching them how to play games properly.
Palau is among the many countries — along with Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Jordan, Mozambique and Zambia – which are included in International Inspiration’s program to “reach young people all around the world and connect them to the inspirational power of the Games so they are inspired to choose sport.”
The program’s ambition is to reach 12 million children in 20 countries by 2012.
