SPORTS EDITORIAL| Are you In or out? Limited face-to-face Sports Events

SPORTS EDITORIAL| Are you In or out? Limited face-to-face Sports Events

Editorial Cartoon illustrated by: Jasmine Bernadette Bembo

An organized and well-structured youth sports and ongoing physical activities can contribute many perks for students and teachers alike. Positive occurrences that sports and active lifestyles bring play a crucial role in a young person's life.

Playing sports demands a lot of time and energy. Some people may think this would perplex student-athletes from schoolwork. Though, the opposite is true.

Sports demand memorization, repetition, and learning — skillsets that are directly relevant to classwork. Also, the perception and goal-setting skills a sport requires can be essential to a classroom setting.

Sports can help reach one's fitness goals and preserve a healthy weight. However, it also encourages healthy decision-making, such as not smoking and not drinking.

Watching one's hard work pays off, and accomplishing goals develops self-confidence. Achieving a sport or fitness goal boosts students to attain other goals they have set. It is a fulfilling and exciting learning process.

About 24 universities will conduct limited face-to-face classes that have been fully complied with the CHED-DOH guideline. CHED and their LGUs have inspected them, so they can now bring their 3rd and 4th-year students hands-on training and laboratory classes in a limited face-to-face system.

If Phinma-University of Pangasinan were to conduct limited face-to-face sports, on the other hand, the best bet for this event is games that do not require physical touch like chess and scrabble.

Nevertheless, suppose students want to have more fun. In that case, the school will have to make sure that basketball, volleyball, and other physical sports are only and should be played by fully vaccinated students. They will limit the gym occupants to 50% and observe social distancing.

As of October 30, 2021, there are total cases of 5,390, 133 active cases, 150 deaths, and 3 new cases. Because of these results, the university will have difficulty conducting the said limited face-to-face sports events, but that will not stop the school from trying.