Author: Juan Victoria

Juan Victoria is an Oax Sport athlete and local running guide in Oaxaca. He helps visitors run with local athletes.
Oax Sport card: Emily Barrera, 2026 State Sports Merit Award. Emily holds her certificate and trophy at the Congress of Oaxaca.

Emily Barrera Receives Oaxaca’s 2026 State Sports Merit Award

The Congress of Oaxaca gave Emily Sofía Barrera López its 2026 State Sports Merit Award on September 22. The 24-year-old combat-sports athlete won the Juvenil Mayor category, for ages 18 to 29. She told Oax Sport how the ceremony felt, who backed her trips to compete, and which fight she is preparing for in November.

Oax Sport Thursdays: Chapulines de Oaxaca, August 13, 2026

On August 13, 2026, Jesús González joined Juan Victoria and Desiree Ramírez on Tribu al Extremo to discuss the origins and development of Chapulines de Oaxaca. He described the club and its preparations for CIBAPAC, including the cost of travel. The conversation also addressed opportunities for young players and plans for a basketball academy in Etla, Oaxaca.

Oax Sport and Tribu al Extremo promo for the August 6, 2026 IQ Basketball broadcast, featuring two basketball coaches.

Oax Sport Thursdays: IQ Basketball and Player Development

On the August 6 Tribu al Extremo broadcast, Desiree Dánae Ramírez García interviewed coaches Josué Abraham Reyes Pacheco and Ángel Pérez about IQ Basketball in Oaxaca. They discussed coach education, player development, age-appropriate training, collaboration between clubs, university opportunities, scholarship opportunities, and why IQ Basketball operates as an open development program rather than a competing basketball club.

Group of athletes and coaches from the 2026 Oax Sport–Titanes Athletics Camp posing outdoors in Ixtepeji, Oaxaca, with misty mountains behind them. Text reads “2026 Athletics Camp” and “Oax Sport + Titanes • July 9–12 • Oaxaca, Mexico.”

Oax Sport–Titanes 2026 Athletics Camp

From July 9 to 12, 2026, Oax Sport and Titanes organized a four-day athletics camp in Oaxaca de Juárez and Ixtepeji. Sixty athletes, coaches, and students from ten clubs trained in running technique, altitude work, aquajogging, sports psychology, nutrition, and functional strength. The camp recorded a minimum documented economic value of US$8,782.

Oax Sport and Tribu al Extremo promo for the July 30, 2026 broadcast on sports programs and athlete support plans for 2026–27.

Oax Sport Thursdays: Planning Athlete Sponsorship for 2027

In the July 30 Tribu al Extremo broadcast, Juan Victoria and Desiree Dánae Ramírez García discussed Oax Sport’s planned athlete sponsorship model for 2027. They covered possible support, athlete responsibilities, selection criteria, public communication, and how athlete-led running experiences can connect athletes with donors, while confirming that other athlete and club support would continue.

Horizontal social card for Oax Sport Thursdays featuring the Oax Sport and Titanes Sport Clinic logos, Tribu al Extremo 106.1 FM, and the June 25, 2026 broadcast on community, coaching, and training technology.

Titanes Sport Clinic: Coaching, Community, and Technology

Jorge Luis Velasco Martínez, Uber Clain Herrera Aquino, and Andrés Yael Canseco Cortés joined Tribu al Extremo to explain how Titanes Sport Clinic began, how its coaching team grew, and why athlete health, commitment, teamwork, and training technology matter. The conversation also covered Titanes Kids, cycling, triathlon, athletics, and the realities of coaching in Oaxaca.