The LaSallianJovet Mendoza entered De la Salle University in 2008 to play for the Green Archers after finishing his secondary education in Urdaneta National High School. In his five years as a player, the Taft-based squad made it to the Final Four for three seasons (season 71, 73 and 75). Having played with established PBA players…
Playing her fifth and final year this season for the Lady Archers, Team Captain Hannah Monica Viterbo, a known shooter from De La Salle- Santiago Zobel high school, is the second lead scorer for the Lady Archers this season. This 22 year old shooting guard proved that height is not a factor in shooting threes.…
In the recently concluded Taekwondo matches in this year’s UAAP season, the DLSU Green Jins came in first runner up. Led by senior Xavier Stepanek, the Taft-based kickers proved DLSU Taekwondo is a force to be reckoned with. Xavier is one of DLSU’s graduating students who led the team this UAAP season. In his four-year…
Five years ago, Ted Yu started playing table tennis. His father’s influence led him to practice the sport going into college, but in an unlikely turn of events, he picked up the sport rather quickly, eventually becoming one of the best in the UAAP. Yu is currently playing his fifth year of eligibility in the…
From being Green Archers to Elastopainters, Ty Tang (BMG, 2007) and Ryan Araña started their careers in different courts. Tang, the former court general for the Green Archers, is a Xavier School standout. Araña (SPM, 2007), on the other hand, took his secondary education at Colegio de San Lorenzo. Though both were born in the…
A masked Jed Bryan Manguera enters the court with four other white shirts ready for another tour of duty. This time around he has to guard one of the league’s top offensive guns and last year’s Rookie of the Year, Kiefer Ravena. Ravena receives the leather on the right wing. Driving hard, he found DLSU…
“I’d rather put a mark on the inspiration. If there would be an inspiration out there, I want it to be me,” Paolo Mallari shared with The LaSallian last March 2010. Paolo Gerardo B. Mallari, more commonly known as Pao, passed away in a vehicular accident that caused his ribs to puncture his lungs in…
He is listed six-foot-two, and he considers explosive and heady guards like Russell Westbrook, Stephen Curry and Ricky Rubio as his favorite NBA players. Similarly, he had manned the point for his high school team, the Xavier Stallions, which won multiple championships. But Jeron Teng can do much more than dish the ball to open…
Women’s Volleyball: Mika Aereen Reyes “A force in the middle,” is how her Facebook fan page describes the former St. Scholastica’s College, Manila volleyball statuesque, Mika Aereen Reyes. Only an inch shy from being a six-footer, and still growing, this 5’11 stand-out is one of the most anticipated rookies of this year’s DLSU women’s volleyball…
The saying goes “it takes two to tango,” but for DLSU Animo Squad’s flyer Aiana Lontok a good arm is enough to cartwheel, dance, spot, catch, fly and finish the rest of the routine. In the starting minutes of the Coach Rhufa Rosario-mentored squad’s hat-trick performance, one of its flyers, Lontok, dislocated her right elbow…