{"id":148743,"date":"2016-06-10T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mo\/sem-categoria\/2016\/06\/38465-pt_pt\/"},"modified":"2020-11-26T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T12:41:31","slug":"38465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.um.edu.mo\/pt-pt\/news-and-press-releases\/campus-news\/detail\/38465\/","title":{"rendered":"Yao Ming de Macau Lai Ka Tong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.umac.mo\/umagazine\/issue14\/\">umagazine<\/a><\/p><p>Lai Ka Tong is a third-year student majoring in human\nresources in the Faculty of Business Administration. He is the current\nvice-captain of the Men\u2019s Basketball Team at UM. Lai received\nthe \u2018Top Scorer\u2019 title in the\nMacao Basketball League 2014, and his team won the 2015\/2016 Macao\nInter-varsity Basketball Championship. With these achievements under his belt,\nit is no wonder he is known as \u2018Macao\u2019s Yao\nMing<\/p><p><b>\u2018Playing basketball makes me happy.<\/b><b>\u2019<\/b><\/p><p>Lai was already very tall when he was a teenager, so he was routinely\nasked to join basketball games. Playing basketball with his friends after\nschool made him fall in love with the sport, and he has never looked back. Now\na college athlete, he loves the sense of camaraderie from working with his\nteammates towards a common goal, and the sense of achievement that comes from\nwinning a competition. But above all, he loves the opportunities to represent\nMacao at various competitions and win championships for UM, which is something he\nnever dreamed he would do when he was a teenager.<\/p><p><b>Countless Hours\nof Training<\/b><\/p><p>As is true for any athlete, one minute of glory on the\nwinners\u2019 podium is the result of countless\nhours of training. Being a college student and a basketball player, Lai\nunderstands all too well the difficulty of juggling academic commitments and\nathletic training. \u2018We usually train until late at night, with classes to\nattend the next morning. So sometimes we don\u2019t have enough time to rest,\u2019\nhe says.<\/p><p>\u2018But this is what you have to do when you love something.\nYou have to sacrifice your leisure time, and you have to constantly motivate yourself\nand be strict with yourself.\u2019 When he was a teenager, Lai sometimes\nsuffered painful injuries from playing basketball. During those times when he\nconsidered giving up basketball because of the pain, he persevered because of\nhis mother\u2019s words: \u2018We should not give up what we love to\ndo too easily.\u2019 Now an adult, he views stressas a source of motivation\nrather than an impediment to progress.<\/p><p><b>Looking Forward\nto More Support<\/b><\/p><p>The support of Lai\u2019s family and friends means a lot to\nhim. \u2018With their support, even a challenging situation seems to\nbecome less daunting,\u2019 he says. \u2018When I\nencounter setbacks, the words of encouragement from my coach and senior\nathletes help reinforce my faith in myself.\u2019<\/p><p>Lai is pleased to see that there are more sports facilities\non the campus, and that the university provides great support, both practical\nand emotional, to the athletes in various aspects. \u2018I\u2019m\nalways happy to see people cheer for us at a competition. For example, the\nuniversity\u2019s management often attend our competitions to cheer for\nus. And I still remember the first time I participated in Chinese University\nBasketball Association League (CUBA). People who probably had never heard of us\nwere cheering for us, which was very touching. People\u2019s\nsupport and encouragement motivate us to work harder,\u2019 he\nsays.<\/p><p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><p>Looking to the future, Lai hopes that more people in Macao\nwill follow local basketball development. He also hopes that one day he will become\na professional athlete, or better yet, a star athlete. \u2018I want\nto find a job that is related to basketball. In fact, I would love to become a\nteacher. I think it\u2019d be fun to teach children to play basketball,\u2019\nhe says.<\/p><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: umagazineLai Ka Tong is a third-year student majoring in human resources in the Faculty of Business Administration. 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