MELCAH Jen Caballero won’t be around to defend her two gold medals in rowing in the Hanoi Southeast Asian Games in May 2022, having retired from the national team to focus on her career with the Philippine Navy.
Caballero, 25, a Seaman Second Class, won gold medals in women’s lightweight single sculls and doubles sculls with Joanie Delgaco in the 2019 SEA Games in Subic.
“Every stroke opened different chapters of my life to which I can say that I have now reached the shore,” Caballero wrote in her resignation letter to Philippine Rowing Association President Patrick “Pato” Gregorio. “Just like the old saying goes, ‘every beginning has its end.’ I have finally reached the end of the tunnel and would like to pursue the other story of my career.”
