The General Director of Youth and Sports, Carlos Yuste, highlighted this morning that almost 89,000 students from the Autonomous Community have participated, this school year, in the 2021-2022 ‘School-Age Sports Championship’.
This has been highlighted by the general director of Youth and Sports in the female and male finals, of the cadet category, of the Castilla-La Mancha Tennis Championship for school age, which have been held at the Alcázar Tennis Club in Ciudad Real of Alcazar de San Juan.
Carlos Yuste has commented that this data is close to the “historical data” obtained before the pandemic, when it was 95,851 participants, and has said that this “comes to show that sport at an early age has recovered all its vigor, sitting the bases for the next seasons.”
Breaking down the participation figures for this school year by province, Albacete has 15,910 participants, Cuidad Real 19,611 participants, Cuenca 15,889 participants, Guadalajara 12,536 participants and Toledo 25,035 participants.
The General Director of Youth and Sports has also underlined that the evaluation of the program as a whole, throughout the season, is being very positive, “since all the programmed activities have been carried out, in each of the lines that make up the aforementioned program”.
Final stages of the ‘School Age Sports Championship’
At this point in the season, the regional final phases are the protagonists in all sports. To date, the following regional finals have been played: cross country, rhythmic gymnastics A, judo, karate, junior tennis and table tennis.
There are still pending athletics, chess, competitions of these modalities beginning this weekend, in addition to badminton, road cycling and mountain biking, climbing, rhythmic gymnastics B and trampoline gymnastics, swimming, orienteering, paddle tennis, taekwondo, triathlon and volleyball beach.
As for team sports, some regional finals have already been played, specifically in women’s children’s volleyball, with the regional finals still to be played in different categories of basketball, handball, soccer, futsal and volleyball.
Today, the general director has attended the final of the Castilla-La Mancha male and female cadet tennis championship, which has brought together 16 players from the region.
Each table has been made up of the provincial champions and runners-up, plus the third-placed teams in the three provinces with the highest participation, together with two top-level players selected by the Federation. In addition, there was one more place for a tennis player from Alcázar for being the organizing club.
Carlos Yuste congratulated the participating tennis players and encouraged them to continue practicing this sport not only to improve their physical condition and health, but also so that in the near future they can become important elite athletes for the Autonomous Community.
The school sports program, especially in the line of the ‘Regional School-Age Sports Championship’, has its continuity in the national championships of the different sports modalities that are part of the ‘We are sports 3-18’ program. In this case, the best athletes in the region are the ones who make up the regional team that will be measured against the rest of the regional teams.
