Winning a championship is already a difficult task for an athlete, but defending the title is another feat much harder to achieve. Only a few can attain back-to-back titles in their respective sporting events and one of them is Lady Woodpusher graduating team captain Mira Mirano. As The LaSallian’s Female Athlete of the Year for…
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Capping off the elimination rounds at the top of the table and going on to win the championship of the UAAP 81 Baseball Tournament have been the high points of Lasallian sports this year. While the DLSU Baseball team has a multitude of players to boast about, right fielder Diego Lozano’s season was exceptional, as…
De La Salle University held the jersey retirement of Olympian and former Lady Paddler Ian “Yanyan” Lariba earlier today at the Enrique M. Razon Sports Center. Yanyan is the first table tennis player and second female athlete to have her jersey retired by La Salle. Overall, she is the fifth athlete to have her jersey…
The Philippine Women’s National Team scored a 2-1 record in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Qualifiers for the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. Called the Malditas, the national team defeated Iran and Palestine, but lost to Chinese Taipei in the second qualifying round held last April 4 to 10 in Qatar. Six of the DLSU Lady…
Six of the DLSU Lady Booters are to don blue and red to represent the national team in the second round of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Qualifiers for the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament. From April 3 to 10, the Philippines will have its own share of global football as the UAAP regular season is…
The Taft-based squad is a day away from their annual University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Streetdance Competition and have been preparing to reclaim what was originally theirs. The La Salle Dance Company (LSDC)-Street finished second place last year with an 85.75 grade, falling short from their expected back-to-back title finish as FEU Street…
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Green Journal: Des Cheng v.1
With the highly competitive UAAP Season 81 Women’s Volleyball Tournament ongoing, the four-peat seeking DLSU Lady Spikers have been training twice a day in the past few months. The LaSallian caught up with the graduating team captain Des Cheng right after one of their morning trainings. In this first installment, Cheng shares her experiences when…
Now that the 2018-2019 NBA Season is coming to a close, the newly arranged NBA Awards Show will soon begin. The show debuted two years ago with TV personality Anthony Anderson hosting it last year. In this show, they will televise the winners of the NBA Season Awards in an Oscars-like show. The awards consists…
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Green journal: One last time v.2
In the second installment of the graduating athletes Green Journal, The LaSallian catches up with Yoshiharu Koizumi and Alfonso Montelibano of the DLSU Men’s Football Team, Jamica Arribas of the Lady Batters, and Jenni Dizon of the Lady Tennisters to discuss their journeys as student athletes and the lessons they will take with them once…
Being a student athlete is never easy. Besides training and working on your craft, the daunting requirements that come from various schoolwork will haunt you throughout the semester. Sports Management major Patrick King Perez embraces that concept religiously. The well-experienced athlete has been practicing taekwondo for almost 17 years. He got his black belt last…