Philippines at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games

The Philippine delegation at the opening ceremony.

Monsour del Rosario was tasked to prepare the Philippine delegation to the 2019 Southeast Asian Games as its chef de mission. He along with other appointed officials by the Philippine Olympic Committee was fired from their post on July 27, 2019 by then-President of the Ricky Vargas due to a "loss of trust and confidence". He was then replaced on July 29, 2019 by Philippine Sports Commission Chairman Butch Ramirez after being convinced by his superiors in the Philippine government who initially declined to be appointed the day before.[2] Ada Milby of rugby and Stephen Fernandez of taekwondo were named as Ramirez's deputies.[3]

As host, Filipino athletes has the advantage of accessing the facilities to be used in the Games. It is projected that by mid-August 2019, Filipino athletes can already move in the Athlete's Village of the New Clark City Sports Hub so they can have easy and early access to the sports complex's facilities.[4] On July 3, 2019, the track oval of the Athletics Stadium was made available to use for training of Filipino track and field athletes even if the stadium is still under construction.[5]

The official training attire of the Philippine delegation is a predominantly red tracksuit which were provided by Asics. The attire of the delegation to be worn in the parade is a Barong Tagalog-inspired clothing was conceptualized by Filipino designer Francis Libiran. The parade attire features a detachable blue and red collar alluding to the Philippine flag and a embossed sun rays motif on the clothes sleeves.[6]

The Philippines as hosts have the largest delegation to the games which consist of 1,115 athletes, 753 coaches and officials.[7] The delegation will have six flagbearers at the opening ceremony: Hidilyn Diaz (weightlifting), Margielyn Didal (skateboarding), EJ Obiena (pole vault), Eumir Marcial (boxing), Nesthy Petecio (boxing), and Kiyomi Watanabe (judo).[8]

27 athletes will compete for the Philippines in swimming events of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games. 14 of them are male and 13 of them are female. Sherwyn Santiago will serve as the coach for the men's team while Jenny Guerrero will coach the women's team.[9]

The Philippine men's national basketball team will be coached by Tim Cone.[10] Yeng Guiao was expected to coach the national team but resigned after the conclusion of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.[11] The official 24-man roster for the Southeast Asian Games is expected to be submitted in August 2019 which is to be composed of a mixture of both amateur and professional players. Guiao has stated that he would not call up naturalized player, Andray Blatche or Jordan Clarkson assessing that there is a deep enough pool to choose players from to form a competitive team that could contend for the gold medal.[12] 17 players from the Philippine FIBA World Cup national training pool as of mid-August 2019 is also guaranteed a slot in the 24-man squad for the Southeast Asian Games.[13]

Roster

Philippines national basketball team – 2019 Southeast Asian Games roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Name Age – Date of birth Height Club Ctr. G 1 Ravena, Kiefer 26 – (1993-10-27)27 October 1993 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) NLEX Road Warriors PF 4 Manuel, Vic 32 – (1987-05-18)18 May 1987 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Alaska Aces G 5 Tenorio, LA 35 – (1984-07-09)9 July 1984 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) Barangay Ginebra San Miguel C 9 Slaughter, Greg 31 – (1988-05-19)19 May 1988 2.13 m (7 ft 0 in) Barangay Ginebra San Miguel G 11 Pringle, Stanley 32 – (1987-06-05)5 June 1987 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) Barangay Ginebra San Miguel G 12 Ross, Chris 34 – (1985-03-09)9 March 1985 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) San Miguel Beermen SG 13 Lassiter, Marcio 32 – (1987-09-16)16 September 1987 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) San Miguel Beermen C 15 Fajardo, June Mar 30 – (1989-11-17)17 November 1989 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) San Miguel Beermen SF 18 Rosario, Troy 27 – (1992-01-20)20 January 1992 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) TNT KaTropa F/C 25 Aguilar, Japeth 32 – (1987-01-25)25 January 1987 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) Barangay Ginebra San Miguel F/C 34 Standhardinger, Christian 30 – (1989-07-04)4 July 1989 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) NorthPort Batang Pier G 35 Wright, Matthew 26 – (1993-02-07)7 February 1993 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) Phoenix Pulse Fuel Masters	Head coach Tim Cone Assistant coach(es) Jimmy Alapag Jong Uichico Joe Devance Legend (C) Team captain Club – describes last club before the tournament Age – describes age on 4 December 2019