Author: Airnel Abarra, MSc.

Aka. ‘The Professor’

Is the head of Track and Field Program of the Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, Philippines. While Originally teaching in San Pablo City, Laguna specialising in teaching Social Studies. Furthermore he has completed the degree of Master of Science in Human Movement Science Major in Exercise Science from the University of the Philippines- College of Human Kinetics. Also He is the event manager of the Blue Knights Track League which is the one of the first sustainable and independent Athletics meet in Mindanao.

His other credentials includes

• Being the lone Filipino delegate at the 2014 Summer School in Sport and Social Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
• And in the Global Dialogue Training Course of the International Sport and Culture Association (ISCA) which was held in Hong Kong (2012).
• And being part of the 2012 Summer School of Catholic University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany.

He also presented research papers to different international scientific conferences which includes

1. Ovidius University Constanta in Romania (May, 2013),
2. University of Gothenburg, Sweden (December, 2013)
3. Summer School in University of Copenhagen (August, 2014),
4. European Association of Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS)
5. Congress in Vienna, Austria (August, 2015).
6. And recently been recognized as part of the John Morton Research Center Research Network, University of Turku, Finland (May, 2017).

He is also member of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA)

Writing mostly about sports science, European Athletics system and Palarong Pambansa (National Games). wWhile his interests revolves mostly in physical education, sport for all, and sociology of sport.

Airnel is also a keen photographer and backpacker/traveler. While He believes that all must be given opportunity to excel in the field of Athletics. Which includes genuine grassroots program using genuine and scientific training programs. And participatory governance in different sports organisations.

 

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