THE Pasig City government on Saturday opened the Pasiglympics 2025, a monthlong sports tournament to select delegates for the Batang Pinoy National Games.

Running from June 28 to July 20, the Pasiglympics features competitions across 27 sports disciplines and is open to Pasigueño youth athletes ages 9 to 17 who are residents or currently enrolled in schools within Pasig City.

This year’s tournament coincides with the celebration of Araw ng Pasig.

According to the Pasig City Sports Office, the tournament serves as the city’s official selection trials for the national youth competition.

“The Pasiglympics 2025 serves as the official tryouts for all 27 sports for the Batang Pinoy National Championships,” Pasig City Sports confirmed in a statement sent to The Manila Times.

The opening day events include athletics at the PhilSports Complex Track Oval, sepak takraw at Rizal High School’s Batibot Ground and wushu at the same school’s SHS Building.

Other scheduled sports include:

Dancesport, judo and jiu-jitsu (June 29), cycling (July 4), Arnis, 3×3 basketball (boys), futsal, kickboxing, soft tennis, table tennis, beach volleyball (boys and girls) (July 5), taekwondo (July 6), badminton (July 10), archery recurve U15 (July 12), compound archery U13 (July 13) and recurve U18 (July 12).

Pencak silat, wrestling and gymnastics (July 12–13), aquatics, boxing, chess, Muay Thai and weightlifting (July 19), karatedo (July 26) and lawn tennis (schedule to be announced).

Registration for the tournament took place from June 13 to June 20, with walk-in participants not permitted. Only those who successfully registered online will receive email confirmations from the organizing committee.

The Pasig City Sports Office encouraged residents to support the athletes: “Let us support our young athletes as they showcase their talent, discipline and sportsmanship in this celebration of youth and excellence.”

The 2024-25 high school sports season is in the books, and athletes from the Eugene-Springfield area delivered no shortage of electric performances throughout the year.

FIRST TEAM

Bryson Brooks, sr., Central: Altoona Mirror first-team all star as a junior. … Team captain had 150 kills and 148 digs this season for the District 6 Class 2A runner-up. … Two-time All-District 6 and Mid State Boys Volleyball League all-star.

Christian Heuston, jr., Central: Altoona Mirror second-team all star as a junior. … Finished with 140 kills, 100 digs and 51 total blocks for the District 6 Class 2A runner-up. … All-District 6 selection and two-time Mid State Boys League all-star.

Caleb Terza, jr., Altoona: PVCA All-District 6 selection. … Had 498 assists. … Added 85 service points, 134 digs and 23 aces. … Selected as team MVP and captain and also had 31 blocks.

Lukas Weathersbee, sr., Altoona: Altoona Mirror second-team all star as a junior. … PVCA All-District 6 selection. … Second-team Mid Penn Commonwealth Division all star. … Finished with 282 kills, 171 digs, 28 blocks and 24 aces. … Will continue volleyball career at Penn State Altoona.

Saturnino Yohn, sr., Altoona: Altoona Mirror second-team all star as a junior. … PVCA All-District 6 selection. … Tabbed the best defensive player for Altoona. … Finished with 433 digs this season and ended his career with 826 digs, third most in Altoona history. … Had 84 service points and 11 aces and a 2.19 serve-receive passer rating.

SECOND TEAM

Logan Caldwell, so., Altoona

Logan Hummel, sr., Central

Luke Mitchell, sr., Altoona

Hayden Smith, sr., Central

Brenden Young, so., Bishop Guilfoyle

HONORABLE MENTION

Braydon Gregg, sr., Central

Justin Jiang, jr., Bishop Guilfoyle

Kallen Plunkett, sr., Altoona

Blake Reynolds, jr., Central

Karter Shall, fr., Bishop Guilfoyle

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Matthew Purucker


Saturday, June 28, 2025 | 4:41 PM

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In April, the Valley News Dispatch recognized Katerina Tsambis as its girls basketball player of the year. Because of her additional excellence in soccer and track and field, she has earned the Valley News Dispatch’s Girls Athlete of the Year honor.

To Tsambis, sports are not just a hobby. They have been and will continue to be a major part of her life.

“Basketball has been my favorite forever. I have played basketball and AAU for years,” Tsambis said. “I played soccer just in high school (but) we had so many good memories going to championships. Same thing with track. I just love to compete.”

Tsambis shined on the basketball court, averaging 18.1 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 3.5 steals per game in her senior season to lead Riverview to a WPIAL Class 2A playoff berth. She was dedicated to the game, encouraging her teammates and playing her hardest every day, her coach said.

“One is her reliability. You knew what you were going to get every day. And the goal of a team is to win, and it didn’t matter how the win came,” former Riverview girls basketball coach Jill Catanzaro said. “Whether she scored five points or 20 points, she didn’t have to have the spotlight. She just did it. That makes her a very humble person.”

Although her best sport was basketball, her soccer career contributed to her achievement on the hardwood.

“I was always the main defender for basketball,” Tsambis said. “The technique is similar, so, yeah, I felt those two definitely correlated together.”

The Riverview girls soccer team enjoyed great success with the athleticism of Tsambis as a defender. Despite missing her freshman season because of injury and not playing in junior high because of a conflict with basketball, Tsambis helped Riverview reach the 2023 WPIAL and PIAA finals in Class A. Individually, she also received second-team Valley News Dispatch and all-WPIAL honors.

“Every year, she got better and better and became a staple in our defense,” former Riverview girls soccer coach Sean Abraham said. “She would take charge of the defense and lead it, trying to shut down everything that she could.”

In the spring, Tsambis took her talents to the track, where she specialized in the sprints. She competed in the 100, 200 and 400 meters and was a crucial member of the Riverview 1,600-meter relay team.

During her junior year, the relay team broke the school record that had stood since 1980 with a time of 4 minutes, 12.20 seconds. Then, it broke that record this season by running a 4:03.95. The unit placed third at the WPIAL Class 2A championships and eighth at the PIAA meet this spring.

“She’ll be truly missed next year. … Her leadership has made the girls’ team the last four years a remarkable contender,” Riverview track coach Dave Ilnicki said. “I’m glad she’s being recognized because she truly deserves it.”

Tsambis was a four-year letterwinner and was on girls track teams that had a 22-8 overall record and won two undefeated section titles in 2022 and 2023.

“She is an outstanding student-athlete. She excels in the classroom as well as the field, court or track,” Ilnicki said. “Whatever surface that she is playing on, she’s super. She’s been the heart and soul of the team.”

This fall, Tsambis will be attending Penn State to pursue a degree in kinesiology, the study of human movement, turning her passion for sports into a career.

“I’m gonna miss my friends for sure. I’m gonna miss my basketball coaches. They were the best,” Tsambis said. “Specifically, coach Jill Catanzaro. I had her seventh through 12th grade, so I’m gonna miss her a lot. Also, being a competitor on a team, I’m gonna miss that.”

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. – For the 2025 edition of Cheyenne’s Superday, Lions Park was filled with different sports. From an early morning 5K fun run and walk to a cornhole tournament that went until the end of the celebration.

Superday is a celebration to kick off National Parks and Recreation month in July, as well as promote the local recreational activities that Cheyenne has to offer.

Across Lions Park, it’s filled with amusement park rides and inflatables for kids and countless shopping and food vendors line the roads of the park.

For the sports, the Superday 5K fun run and walk took runners around Lions, doing two laps circling Sloans Lake for the 3.1 mile course. The winner of the race was Xavier Murdy while not too far behind was Abi Bever, the winner of the women’s race.

Both of the race winners commented on the heat they had to run in, but were glad to be outside along with their community.

“I think it’s fun, just get people out, get people seeing,” Bever said. “I know a lot of businesses come and have booths set up and I think it’s just fun to see familiar faces and see the community out.”

For Murdy, Superday and the people were the reason he chose to come out.

“I just love to be out in nature, to be out in what God’s given us, and to do it with people,” Murdy said. “I definitely wouldn’t have ran this 5K by myself, on a Saturday morning, heck no. So, I just love doing it, it means a lot.”

In the outfield of the Lions Park Softball field, a grass volleyball tournament put four teams against each other in a double-elimination bracket. The team named The Grasshoppers came out victorious, not losing a single match on the day.

Just down the road, Corn Bags and Brews hosted the cornhole tournament that hosted 16 games at once in the southeast corner of the park. The competition also had $2,440 up for grabs in the top-three placers for upper and lower brackets.

The team named Fran Jam would win the upper division, claiming $858 for the team, or $429 per player. Through $1,000 of sponsorship money, plus registration fees, the money pool was created.

Lastly, one of the longer events of the day was the pickleball tournament.

In the mixed division, Sarah and Matt Stephan would win the upper division. For the lower bracket, Marianne and Francis Shenefelt came out as winners. The Shenefelts, a very experienced pickleball couple, believe a day like Superday brings many different people together outside, especially in the sport of pickleball.

“I think it includes a lot of people, as you well saw, young people too and something to do,” Marianne said. “I saw a lot of cornhole going on and we like to do that too.”

“It’s just great to see the people of Cheyenne together as a community, it’s important,” Francis said.

For the men’s and women’s brackets of the pickleball tournament, Sarah Stephan would get another medal with her partner Mary Parsons, while they win the upper division. The men’s side allowed the youth of the tournament to shine as Isaiah Rigg and Jackson Cook went up with the first place medals.