The Rotary Club of Manila Jorge B. Vargas Athlete of the Year Award
The award, renamed in honor of Jorge B. Vargas, was first bestowed on March 25, 2021 on gymnast Carlos Edriel Yulo.
The Rotary Club of Manila Jorge B. Vargas Athlete of the Year Award was originally conceived in RY 2019-2020 as the Rotary Club of Manila Most Outstanding Award. Being a new awards giving body, brainstorming was commonplace and the name evolved to the Rotary Club of Manila Sports Prodigy Award. The objectives of the award are to promote and improve the country’s levels of athletic performance locally and internationally and to set the example to our youth that they may follow and emulate and give glory to our country.
In RY 2020-2021, the award was renamed in honor of Jorge B. Vargas, a member of the Rotary Club of Manila during his lifetime, who was a founding member of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (now the Philippine Olympic Committee) in 1911 and served in its Executive Committee in 1918. He served as its second Chairman from 1935 to 1955. He was also the first Filipino member of the International Olympic Committee.
Today, March 25, 2021, establishes a milestone in the history of the club as it bestows the very first Rotary Club of Manila Jorge B. Vargas Athlete of the Year Award to gymnast par excellence Carlos Edriel Yulo.
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