NAS to encourage multiple sports on student-athletes

Student-athletes taken in by the National Academy of Sports (NAS) will be encouraged to spend time learning a variety of sports and find out the right one for themselves.

By exposing these student-athletes to a multitude of options, newly appointed NAS executive director Josephine Reyes said they would be able to identify the sport where athletes can maximize their true potential.

“In a talent program, an athlete can actually specialize in [as many as] five sports. We will bring the athlete to the sport where he or she shows a lot of interest in,’’ said Reyes, also the Philippines Sports Commission’s sports physiology unit head.

NAS, which will have its campus at New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac, was established by the government to develop the athletic skills and talents of high school students in world-class facilities.

It will offer a holistic secondary education to natural-born Filipino citizens with considerable talent in sports.

“We will not force a child to play a sport that he doesn’t like much because [we believe] the training should come out naturally from an athlete,’’ Reyes said. INQ