Fundraising for Pacific Games team

Fundraising to attend the Pacific Games in New Caledonia in September is the biggest concern for the 15 national federations preparing for the games.

At last week’s first meeting for the Pacific Games sport codes, a budget committee was formed and tasked with coming up with fundraising events for Team Cook Islands.

The newly-formed committee includes Cook Islands Football Association president Lee Harmon, Cook Islands Cricket general manager Alister Stevic and Tennis Cook Islands representative Brian Baudinet.

Each athlete and official who makes final selection for Team Cook Islands must also pay a $1500 code levy which will cover their airfares to New Caledonia, accommodation, food and transport while in Noumea.

Team managers for the 15 codes were also given code of conduct forms plus athlete and management agreement forms.

Team managers are urged to provide a long list of athletes for their codes plus a training programme for their athletes in order for the Cook Islands Sports and National Olympic Committee sports development unit to monitor athlete preparation.

A training session for national federation managers was scheduled at the meeting for this Thursday, February 17, where each national federation must learn to enter their own athlete information into the database in order to receive accreditation.

Managers are urged to be at the database training so your code doesn’t miss out on accreditation for the games.

The 15 codes the Cook Islands will compete in during the Pacific Games are: athletics, beach volleyball, boxing, body building, cricket, football, golf, rugby sevens, sailing, squash, swimming, tennis, triathlon, oe vaka and weightlifting.