Sta. Lucia taps 30 exec subdivisions for community sports

Thirty exclusive subdivisions in Metro Manila and the Calabarzon area developed by real estate giant Sta. Lucia Realty have been tapped as venues for the Sta. Lucia Community Sports Program scheduled to be launched this summer.

The community clubhouses of Sta. Lucia-developed subdivisions like Acropolis Manila, Vermont Park in Antipolo, The Orchard in Cavite and even those in Tarlac (Las Haciendas de Luisita) and Batangas (Lipa Royale) will serve as venues for a series of clinics covering basketball, swimming, tennis and badminton.

Four noted gurus who have guided top athletes to local and international glory are handling the various courses under the program which will be opened not just to village residents but to all those living within the area.

They are Nic Jorge, founder of the famed BEST clinics (basketball), Ral Rosario (swimming), Danny So (badminton) and Van Der Meer Academy graduate Nani Jimenez (tennis).

The program has drawn the support of Head-Penn, Talbot-Torro badminton equipment and Swans Swimming equipment through its local distributor Dyynamic Sports Corp. and Chris Sports Plaza as well as Pisanti.

Registration centers are all Chris Sports Plaza outlets, the Milo Best Center office (372-3065/66), Nani Jimenez Sports Tennis Professionals (922-0922-922-1842) and all host venues.

Vicente Santos, executive vice president of Sta. Lucia Realty, said the program is the start of what the organizing group foresees to be a gradual conversion into a intra and inter-village competition and ultimately something in the nationwide scale.

The 30 subdivisions: Britanny/Neopolitan, North Fairview, Vista Real Classica, Vermont Park (Antipolo), Glenwood Park (Calamba), Lipa Royale Estates (Batangas), Southplains (Dasmariñas, Cavite), Metropolis Greens (Gen. Trias, Cavite), Citadelia (Gen. Trias, Cavite), Vista Verde Executive (Cainta); Greenland Sports Complex (Cainta), Las Haciendas de Luisita (San Miguel, Tarlac), Don Jose de Real (Cabanatuan), Golden Meadow (Gapan, Nueva Ecija), Palos Verdes (Antipolo), Summer Hills (Antipolo), East Gate (Taytay), Ridgemont Greens (Taytay), Orchard Community (Dasmariñas, Cavite), Pallas Athena Executive (Anabu, Cavite);Carmel Heights (Carmona Highway,