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SALTILLO, Coahuila, July 27, 2008.- One historic
ocassion was achieved during the NORCECA Women’s
Junior Tournament which closes here today: Only
women officiated the match between Costa Rica
and Trinidad & Tobago.
As first referee officiated the Puerto Rican
Aixa Sanfiorenzo who had Marry Blaloch, of
United States as her assistant.
To confirm the female domination during the
opening of the closing day, the presidency for
the match number 19, was in charge of Guatemalan
Marta Centeno, member of the Control Committee
of the North, Central American and Caribbean
Confederation (NORCECA).
Aixa is the only female international referee of
her country, a category she reached in 2005
after a decade as national referee, when she
participated in a course in the Dominican
Republic, and last year she received the license
to ofíciate in the NORCECA Women’s Continental
in Canada.
The Puerto Rican is happy with this
responsibility that has taken her to other
international events such as the Youth in
Gainsville, Florida, United States in 2006; one
year later in Canada, and now this World
qualifying women’s junior in Saltillo.
Aixa, 38, has two sons, Aramis, 20, and Jean
Paul, 13, which demands an extra from her in her
daily chores while continuing to improve as
referee in this sport she practiced as a teen-ager.
In the case of Mary, 45, is also a pleasure to
be in this activity with its load of sacrificas,
since she is married in Austin and has a boy of
only 3 years-old.
Since 1993 she is national referee, atended the
2000 course also in Dominican soil and since
2003 she enjoys the international category and
participates in tournaments of that level.
And even though Marta Centeno operates from the
presidency, she also knows the taste of a
volleyball court, since she was for 15 years the
captain of the National Team of Guatemala.
Following her retirement and getting her negree
as Electronic engineer with a master in Systems
and Business Administration, she was the vice
president of the Volleyball Confederation of her
country (2001-2005).
Along to her ruties as general secretary of
NORCECA and member of the FIVB Board of
Administration, Marta, married and mother of
Cesar Jose, 24, is also member of the Women’s
Commission of the International Olympic
Committee (IOC) since 2001. |
