PSL, DPS launch 'Joy for Swimming'

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Swimming League and Diliman Preparatory School will train 50 Quezon City select swimmers in competitive swimming under the newly launched swimming program of QC Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte.

Under the program, PSL coaches will train QC swimmers in the DPS Swimming Center, which will serve as the home of Vice Mayor Belomonte’s projects for elite swimming as well as rescue operations that will prepare QC volunteers for calamities such as last year’s Ondoy typhoon.

The 50 swimmers will be the first batch of QC swimmers to be trained under Belmonte’s outreach program dubbed “Joy for Swimming.”

In a meeting with DPS president and former Sen. Nikki Coseteng, Belmonte proposed a long-range swimming program designed to provide training in swimming particularly for the less fortunate in Quezon City.

“Vice Mayor Belmonte really wants to produce a topnotch swimmer from Quezon City and is serious about water safety and rescue operations, and we are only too glad to offer the facilities of the DPS and the services of our coaches to this noble endeavor,”said Coseteng.

Belmonte earlier gave her blessings to the Quezon City team that will compete in the swimming events of the Arafura Games in Australia next month.

The team, supported by the Philippine Sports Commission, will be led by Coseteng and PSL president Susan Papa.