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The secret ingredient: Defense wins championships

After taking the inaugural preseason IPPCA championship crown to Taft Avenue, the De La Salle University Green Booters will look to use its championship formula and experience gained in the team’s bid to top the UAAP Season 75 Men’s Football Tournament. Led by the defensive duo of goalkeeper Patrick Deyto and defender Greggy Yang, who…

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Suffocating defense leads Green Booters to IPPCA gold

The DLSU Green Booters took home the inaugural Independent Philippine Petroleum Companies Association (IPPCA) Pre-Season Football Tournament championship last November 24 at the Ateneo de Manila University High School Field. La Salle defeated the FEU Tamaraws on penalty kicks with a score of 3-1 after both teams failed to score during 90 minutes of play…

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DLSU Synchro Peri Green Team

The DLSU Synchro Peri Green Team (SPGT) performs beneath the different elite sport organizations of the Green-and-White. Until today the team suffers is overshadowed throughout the university grounds, which has disabled the team’s potential to expand. DLSU SPGT established its name in 2000, under the management of PE Department Head Dr. Elizabeth Mascardo, a pioneer…

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Green and Lady Spikers: Reaching the golden pitch

With the second half of the 75th UAAP season fast approaching, no other sport draws more attention than volleyball. Coming off a championship run, a win against the University of St. La Salle Lady Stingers from the recently concluded UniGames in Bacolod City, the DLSU Lady Spikers has set the team’s eyes on a third…

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UniGames 2012: A trial run for the UAAP

DLSU made sure that its second half teams are physically and mentally ready prior to their respective UAAP campaigns that would start this November by wreaking havoc in this year’s UniGames. The Green-and-White squads bagged a total of three gold, four silver and a bronze in this year’s UniGames. Six of eight podium finishers will…

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Joaqui Trillo: A tale of an Archer

A true green blooded Archer, Joaqui Trillo, embodies the Animo spirit of De La Salle University. One of the last graduates of De La Salle High School Manila in the existing Taft campus and a 1971 graduate of BS Business Management, Trillo was born and raised a Lasallian. He played for the Archers for four…

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Green Gallery: Second half Coaches who played for DLSU

Men’s CHESS: Randy Segarra From playing to coaching as assistant, and eventually as a head coach of the Woodpushers, Randy Segarra has come a long way. He first wore the Green-and-White jersey in 1995 as a rough entry in the UAAP. Segarra shared that during his time, scholarships were performance-based, which pushed him to play harder…

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An unspoken collegiate rivalry: DLSU vs. UST

Over the decades, the University of Santo Tomas, amongst other UAAP member schools have dealt DLSU exciting matches not just in basketball, but also in different sports. The rivalry between La Salle and Ateneo is not the only rivalry DLSU has in the UAAP. One often less told rivalry is that between La Salle and…

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Lasallians in the know on the UAAP General Championship race

Nine out of ten (90 percent) of Lasallians are aware of the UAAP General Championship (GC). De La Salle University (DLSU) currently sits at the top of the yearlong tournament after the end of the first semester games. Following the DLSU athletes are their counterparts from the University of Santo Tomas (UST). The España-based institution’s…

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Second half team captains set goals

Second semester sports events are on their way to the lime light of the 75th season of the UAAP, and DLSU is betting on each sport to tighten its bid for the institution’s first General Championship (GC). Each Green-and-White squad has set high expectations for the upcoming competitions, and most are optimistic. Two defending champions,…