Monday, March 2, 2009

A mermaid named Dara


Davao girl is DAVRAA’s best mermaid


Nine-year old Dara Clariza Evangelista of Davao City emerged as the region’s best mermaid after she splashed to a four-gold two-silver haul in the recent Davao Regional Athletic Association (DAVRAA) swimming competitions in Mati, Davao Oriental over the weekend.

The fourth-grader Davao Wisdom Academy standout, backed up by Growee Vitamins, romped over the competition in style, winning the individual gold medal in 50-m butterfly and 50-meter freestyle, and anchoring the DCAA Team to the gold in 4x50m medley relay and 4x50 freestyle relay.

She laced her quadruple gold harvest with a pair of silvers in the 50-m backstroke and 100-m butterfly.

Evangelista’s ripples at the pool sparked the Davao’s Durian City athletes to top the elementary swimming competitions. Dara’s sister Camyl was not as lucky, however, as she missed out on the gold when her relay team was disqualified for fielding a teammate who has swam three relays.

Panabo City’s Lian Cantil, a standout of Davao del Norte’s AGR Kids Program, came out as the secondary girls’ best swimmer in the 2-day competitions supervised by the Department of Education. (Neil Bravo)

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