Motivation, Team Building and Mental Toughness Camp 2011

A camp for Motivation, Team Building and Mental Toughness will be held from 30th April to 2nd May, 2011 at Santubong Resort and Camp Permai, Kuching, Sarawak which is joinly organised by A.B.A.S. and the team of coaches from Kuching.

Programs and activities have been line up to build and strengthen character of our young state athletes and interested senior members of the association. Majority of the program used will be that of Mr. Fred Tan who did the camp for our successful record breaking Sukma 2010 Team. Newly thought up programs and activities will also be exercised. Even a classroom session on nutrition will be added and facilitated by coach Reginald Walter Angkas.

Officials during camp will be as follows;

• Camp Commander - Angelo Koay
• Assistant Camp Commander - Reginald Walter Angkas
• Camp Assistants - Myron Khoo, Jeff Chin Jit Chong, Bong Kihow and Jonathan Ding Sagan
• Official photgrapher and cameraman - Jason Ling Yee Jiat

Camp program and activities;
"For Camp Commander to know and for participants to find out on that day."

Fees are as follows;

1.     Youth trainees under state program – RM100.00 (Inclusive of accommodation, transportations,

                                                                                    meals and program materials)

2.     Senior members of A.B.A.S. – RM100.00 (Program materials and meals – Rooms will be on

                                                                           sharing basis with the rate of RM180.00 per-night

                                                                           divided equally among room mates)

Must bring item;

1. Shirts - Plenty of old or shirt not mind dirtied or torn.
2. Pants - Plenty of track suit preferably that don't mind dirtied or torn.
3. Shorts - Knee length preferably.
4. Shoes - 2 x sport shoes especially jogging shoes the best that don't mind getting dirtied or spoiled.
5. Socks - Plenty of them.
6. Slippers - 1 pair
7. Towels
8. Toothbrush
9. Torch Light - Please bring your own spare batteries.
10. Under garments - Plenty of these please.
11. Swimming suit and trunk
12. Food, drinks and snacks are allowed and encouraged

Those that are interested please register and sign up with Mr Myron Khoo @016-8757519 on or before the 28th April, 2011 and information on rendezvous and time will be notified.

The Borneo Post Online (20.03.2011)

Sarawak keglers unexpected champions

by Ting Tieng Hee. Posted on March 21, 2011, Monday

KUCHING: Sarawak keglers performed beyond expectations to emerge as the overall champions of the Astro 24th Inter – State Bowling Championship that ended at Sunway Megalanes, Sunway Pyramid in Selangor last Saturday.

FRUITFUL OUTING: The Sarawak bowling team celebrate their victory after emerging overall team champions at the Astro 24th InterState Bowling Championship that ended at Sunway Megalanes, Sunway Pyramid in Selangor last Saturday. — Photo courtesy of Amateur Bowling Association of Sarawak

They captured four gold, two silver and one bronze medals to pip bowling giant Selangor by a silver medal for the top honour. This was a good improvement when compared to second overall finish last year with six silvers and one bronzes.

Selangor won four golds, one silver and five bronzes while third-placed Pulau Pinang had three golds, one silver and two bronzes and Sabah came in fourth with two golds, one silver and one bronze.

Another bowling powerhouse Kuala Lumpur could only manage one gold, four silvers and one bronze to settle for fifth.

Sarawak’s gold medals came from newly promoted national bowler Jacqueline Jenelee Sijore who won the Women’s Singles gold, Women’s Doubles gold with another national bowler Dayang Khairuniza Dhiyana Abg Jamalidon and the Women’s Team gold together with Dayang Khairuniza, Caroline Chien and Nurafidza Mohd Amran Nur.

The other gold was delivered by Dayang Khairuniza in the Women’s All-Events.

Jacqueline added a silver to her collection by finishing second in the Women’s All-Events while Christopher Tiong and Muhd Syafiq Sajeli contributed a silver from the Boys Doubles event.

The solitary bronze came from dropped national back-up bowler Aris Ardilla Santosoh who finished third in the Men’s Singles.

“This is a fantastic result for us because we brought along our second stringers for exposure and we beat Selangor by one silver,” said team manager Robert Lu in a telephone interview from Kuala Lumpur.

“I am very satisfied with the results and at the same time we gave our Sukma backup squad members the exposure trip and yet we won the overall championship. What more can we ask for,” he added.

Lu, who is also Amateur Bowling Association of Sarawak (Abas) deputy president, said the state team’s victory at the interstate championship was based on the strength of the women’s team.

Meanwhile, Sarawak also did well in the Astro 35th National Closed Championship where they won three golds, two silvers and one bronze.

Sukma XIII gold medallist Chong Jun Foo won the gold in the Boys Open, Daniel Tan captured the Men’s Graded gold while Caroline Chien took the Women’s Graded gold.

The silvers were delivered by Dayang Khairuniza in the Women’s Masters and Dayang Aida Natasha in the Girls Graded while Aris Ardilla bagged the Boys Open bronze.

The state team is trained by head coach Jackson Ting and his assistants Reginald Walter Anggas, Angelo Koay and Jeff Chin.

Abas deputy president Shaifulbahri Shukri was the assistant team manager.

NSC - MTBC Nationwide Evaluation 2011

USPTN holds S’wak evaluation for tenpin bowling age group

The New Sarawak Tribune (30.01.2011) written by Robert Lu Nam Min

ANGELO Koay, USPTN Sarawak coach, briefing the youth bowlers for evaluation bowling, while behind is Jeff Chin, Pusat Cemerlang coach.

KUCHING: High Performance Sport Unit State or Unit Sukan Prestasi Tinggi Negera (USPTN) under National Sports Council, with the collaboration of Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress (MTBC) held their evaluation programme for Sarawak at Crystal Bowl here on Friday evening.
 
More than 40 boys and girls under 18 years old, registered for the evaluation which started at 7.30pm.

George Tan, the treasurer of MTBC, has been tasked to go around all the states to ensure that the training programme for USPTN for 2011 is managed smoothly and efficiently by all state affiliates, States Sports Councils and training centres.

Foong Tat Meng, the assistant national coach and Azidi Ameran, one of the national youth coaches, were the evaluators for the age group youth.

George Tan said he and his coaches have been going around the States for the past two months to do the evaluation with Sabah and Sarawak being the last two states to be evaluated.

The number of youths selected will ascertain the number of lanes that they will provide for the training programme in the centre.

Foong said although he has seen quite a few youths with great potentials to excel, he is, however, quite disappointed that youths from the other bowling centres, who had state development programmes (pusat cemerlang) not taking part in the evaluation although this is the best opportunity for their youth bowlers to be coached and trained to a higher level. MTBC organises annual competitions, like the SportExcel Youth Bowling Championship, in all the states.

For Sabah and Sarawak, they will compete in the Eastern Zone (home and away leg ) where all the youth bowlers of under 12, 15 and 18, will pit their skills to win ranking points for the Grand finals in Selangor.

Meanwhile , the committee of Amateur Bowling (tenpin) Association Sarawak were also present during the evaluation together with Suefarinawathy, the head of USPTN Sarawak and Reginald Walter, head coach USPTN Sarawak.

More scenes from the evaluation below:-

 from left: George Tan (M.T.B.C. Hon. Treasurer), Reginald Walter Angkas (U.S.P.T.N. Sarawak Head Coach) and Mdm. Jenny

 National Youth Coach Azidi Ameran at work

from left: Myron Khoo (Pusat Cemerlang Coach), Foong Tak Meng (National Youth Head Coach), George Tan (M.T.B.C. Hon. Treasurer) and Azidi Ameran (Ex-National Elite and current National Youth Coach)

The 60' Tenpin Bowling Challenge 2011

The USPTN team of coaches has taken their own initiative to organize a monthly tournament for the youths in Sarawak. The tournament will be called "The 60' Tenpin Bowling Challenge 2011" consisting of 11 monthly editions and one Grand Finals.
Participants will earn points in the monthly editions depending on their placings and the top 12 after the 11th edition will then qualify themselves to take part in the Grand Finals. The attraction of this tournament and its editions is that every edition will see a different format of play such as, plastic ball challenge, match play, knockout, and others. This is too make the tournament more exciting a to prepare our youths to the different format of play in bowling. Prizes will also defer in every edition as it depends on the availability of funds as the coaches objective of organizing this monthly tournament is to promote exposure and competition among the youths and not developing them into future "money bowlers".
Every edition will also have a special name, example, the first edition scheduled on the 29th to 30th of January, 2011 shall bear the name "The 60' Tenpin Bowling Challenge 2011 "The USPTN" Edition" being that the tournament prizes are sponsored by USPTN. Any sponsor that invest into encouraging this tournament shall have an edition bearing their personal or corporate name whichever they deem fit.
This being a personal initiative by the coaches, funds are self raised and limited and we hope anyone interested in further developing and preparing our state youths would kindly sponsor an edition to keep it going. Your support and involvement is very much needed and appreciated. Any interested sponsor or anyone with any constructive opinions and suggestions please write it down in the comment column or contact Mr, Reginald Walter Angkas, Mr. Angelo Koay, Mr. Myron Khoo or Mr. Jeff Chin.