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My First Pakiglambigit
by Lea Bacolod
October 27, 2017
“It was a matter of prioritizing your tasks and of course, sacrificing some of your free time for the betterment of the team.”
These were the thoughts of Psych-Soc-TCO basketball and softball player, Mikodaemus Morvan T. Mamac, also known as “Miko”, as he was asked on how he prepared for his first ever Pakiglambigit.
Mamac, a second year Mass Communication student, is one of the male players of the college department of Saint Theresa’s College of Cebu who competed against each other for the top awards of various sporting events. Suprisingly, this is his first Pakiglambigit since he only enrolled in STC last semester. And for his first time, he joined in two sporting events, basketball and softball.
Currently, the college department has only two teams for its male players since their population is quite smaller compared to the females’.
Out of 295, there are only 54 male students in the college department.
Because of this insufficient number of male students, the teams were merged into two. These teams are the Business & Accounting Team-Junior Educators’ Organization (BAT-JEO) and the Psychology-Social Work and Theresian Communicators’ Organization (Psych-Soc-TCO).
“As a player and an observer, the level of competitiveness among the students was just so fun to watch”, said Mamac on what made him join in Pakiglambigit.
For Mamac, it was not a challenge to play basketball since he grew up playing the sport; however, for softball, he had to learn the basics of the game because he never played the sport even once. Although it was his first time, Mamac said that his teammates were patient with him and were more than willing to walk him through the rules and the basics of the sport.
To prepare for the actual games, Miko shared that he had to join various in-campus and out-campus practices with the team. The practices were usually held during Saturday or Sunday, depending on the availability of the team members.
After weeks of practice, Miko shared that he already created a bond between his team members and even with the members of the opposing team. He said that even though that his opponents were competitive, they still managed to bond with each other.
According to Miko, basketball offers a good opportunity to strengthen their friendship with each other. It also paves a way for them to get to know and learn from each other.
However, luck was not on his team’s side as they failed to bag the championships for both events; however, for Miko, winning was not the main goal of the event but it was enjoying the whole experience and bonding with other male players that mattered.
“Losing means that the team still has things to improve on.”, Mamac confessed.
For Miko, losing is a part of the game. Losing doesn’t have a negative effect on him but that doesn’t mean that he will just laugh at their loss. Instead, he took their loss as a lesson to do better on their next Pakiglambigit and hopefully win for the organization.
“I cannot wait for our team’s first gold medal for Pakiglambigit!”, Mamac exclaimed.
To top it all off, Miko’s experience for Pakiglambigit 2017 was fun most especially in the awarding ceremony. According to Miko, the medals shine from a far and it calls him to have one soon.
