This Sunday in Río Gallegos and other cities in the province of Santa Cruz, the 16th EPaDe Games will begin competition involving athletes from categories 13 to 17 years old from Patagonia in seven sports: athletics, judo, swimming, cycling, basketball, soccer and volleyball.
The Neuquén delegation made up of 164 athletes left this Friday afternoon in four buses. The competition will begin on Monday and on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. at the facilities of the Atlético Boxing Club in Río Gallegos, the opening ceremony will take place.
The capital of Santa Cruz, Río Gallegos will host athletics, swimming, judo, basketball and volleyball; while in Río Turbio cycling will compete in the mountain bike modality; Puerto Santa Cruz will host women’s soccer and Comandante Luis Piedrabuena will host men’s soccer.
In the last edition that was held in La Pampa last year, Neuquén was fourth in the general classification and was champion in basketball and women’s soccer, disciplines in which it will defend the title.
The campuses:
Men’s athletics: Cristian Castillo, Juan Bautista Cerda, Augusto Elsesser, Gianfredo Romero, Lautaro Magallanes, Bautista Pianciola Ammann, Fausto Pianciola Ammann, Federico Tejeda Schiavoni, Lautaro Vargas Eisenacht and Pablo Zerda Sastre. Coach: Jorge Rodriguez. Delegate: Camila Rivas.
Women’s athletics: Xiomara Arrix Aravena, María Benítez Salvarezza, Paula Cruz, María Enríquez, Rubi Jaime Zunino, Malen Mesas, Juana Molina Valls, Alva Juanita Pino, Victoria Quezada Parada, Katherine Rubilar, Abril Tinello, Valentina Villablanca, Julieta Villalba. Coach: Lucas Carro. Delegate: Agustina Salazar.
Women’s basketball: Caetana Alvarado, Lola Barbero, Valentina Canales, Camila Coria, Candela Cuadrillero, Julieta Irill, Luna Ormeño, Ernestina Pacheco Kolff, Zoe Pino, Celeste Remolina, Uma Soto, Pia Valdebenito. Coach: Alejandro Sosa. Delegate: Pilmaiquén Petroni.
Men’s basketball: Francisco Espedale, Joaquin Flores, Nicholas Furlotti, Francisco Gendana, Juan Manuel Gonzalez, Thomas Gruich, Thaddeus Martin, Hector Parello, Benjamin Patroniti, Maxim Platte, Amadeo Siciliani, Juan Zarzur. Coach: Leandro Lauro. Delegate: Julius Mariluan.
Men’s cycling: Orlando Hasi, Gastón Molina, Fausto Reyes, Samuel Rivas, Santino Rosales. Coach: Juan Pablo Raffler. Mechanic: Juan Pablo Denmark. Delegate: Diego Rivas.
Women’s judo: Antonela Sugar, Jennifer Diaz, Nicole Montecino, Eluney Mora, Candela Rubilar, Sepulveda. Coach: Karina Bravo and Men’s Judo: Joaquin Alzamora, Titian Bruno, Santiago Lopez, Ehiar Mac Donel, Titian Mac Donel, Walter Soto. Coach: Jose Carlone. Delegate: Sebastian Alonso.
Women’s soccer: Nicole Bosque, Juana Bourdieu, Valentina Calfumán, Aldana Cayún, Alexia Enriquez, Lua González, Ximena Gutiérrez, Brisa Juan, Camila Méndez, Valentina Montes, Lourdes Mora, Claribel Moya, Luz Moyano, Juanita Pedrero, Maitena Querci, María Lucía Quiroz, Kiara Reyes, and Brenda Venegas. Coach: Johana Alfaro. Delegates: Abel Garrido and Lorena Torres.
Men’s soccer: Tiziano Acuña, Matthias Bustingorry, Gaspar Cofre, Giovanni Demasi, Lautaro Demasi, Thomas Dermit, Lautaro Farias, Thiago Lapadu, Bautista Lopez, Facundo Mac Donnell, Agustin Maldonado, Santiago Morin, Valentin Morillas Diaz, Joaquin Meuna, Hector Navarro, John Cruz, Germain Paniagua, Benjamin Zalazar. Coach: Fabian Shoe. Delegates: Darius Ibanez and Martin Leiva.
Women’s swimming: Fernanda Carrizo, Agostina Fuentealba, Aldana Guzmán, Martina Jouglard, Agustina Torres and Martina Hernalz. Coach: German Carnevale. Delegate: María Muñoz. Men’s swimming: Juan Pablo Bustamante, Tomás Jouglard, Alfio Nicotra, Fabricio Román Ramírez, Nehemias Sáez, Santiago Zapata. Coach: Mauro Kolep.
Women’s volleyball: Morena Bravo, Aymará Campos, Camila Gaete, Iara Peretto, Zoe Querci, Lucía Rizzo, Pamela Rodríguez, Francesca Sgammini, Maira Silva, Abril Ungar, Carolina Vuillermin, Natalí Zapata. Coach: Franco Retamozo. Delegate: María Barloqui. Men’s volleyball: Yoel Alarcón, Gonzalo Arana, Bautista Betancur, Ian Blanco Kombolitis, Santiago Brito, Exequiel Dahir Raif, Julián González, Adrián Jara Carim, Facundo Moreno, Alejandro Olivera, Gaspar Redel Grossi, Agustín Rueda Moreno. Coach: Rodrigo Villalba. Delegate: Hector Vergara.
Source: Press Ministry of Sports of the Province of Neuquén
