Monagi To Defend Title

by Dinnierose Raiko29/03/201729/03/2017463

21-year-old USA-based PNG athlete Adriene Monagi says, the pressure is on now that the 2018 Commonwealth Games is just around the corner as well as the Mini Pacific Games.

With the 2015 Pacific Games gold medal under her belt, Monagi will head into to both competitions with the main goal of defending her title.

Earlier this month, she outperformed her previous record of 51.92 in the Florida Nationals with 5221.

The points she collected were from the 100m hurdles, high jump, javelin and long jump.

The young lass say she is working towards huge marks in at least seven events to improve her points further.

She adds, she has to be competitive enough to compete against the best.

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Dinnierose Raiko

Dinnierose Raiko graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts (Journalism) from Divine Word University in March 2016. She joined EMTV Sports in April 2016 covering Sports news and contributes content to and at times Co-host EMTV’s premier sports talk show ,'Sports Scene'. Her previous experience extends to a year of general news reporting for NBC West New Britain, NBC Madang and stringing for PNGFM just before joining EMTV. Having done courts, business, health, Education rounds before, the prospect of doing Sports stories became a new challenge. One that Dinnierose wanted to test herself with. She is now an all-rounder sports reporter but takes a greater interest in Cricket. Dinnierose has since found her niche and hopes to produce her own Sports Show someday.