The LaSallianIt was a cold and drenched opening day for the UAAP Season 74 Lawn Tennis Championship, but last season’s Green Tennister finalist burned the wet courts to demise the University of the East (UE) Red Warriors 5-0, last January 7. The Green-and-White Tennisters started the season with a statement delivering the ‘W’ in every singles…
The Green Spikers split their first six games evenly in the UAAP Season 74 Men’s Volleyball Tournament at the Fil Oil Flying V Arena to finish in the three-way log jam with Final Four contenders Adamson University (AdU) and University of the Philippines (UP). DLSU’s top two spikers, Team Captain Myco Antonio and sophomore Red…
DLSU Office of Sports Development (OSD) Executive Director, Edwin Theodore Reyes, decided to resign after four and a half years of service to DLSU sports. Reyes turned in his resignation letter to DLSU President Br. Jun Erguiza FSC last Oct. 27, to take another path. His resignation as OSD director will be effective early next…
The Lady Spikers’ virtually no-loss game season last UAAP Season 73 is one of the highlights of DLSU’s centennial. Sporting players like Best Spiker, Server, and MVP of the season Jacqueline Alarca, veterans Steph Mercado and Cha Cruz, the Lady Spikers managed to overcome their obstacles last season. A tournament rule infraction mired the Green-and-White…
The Green Tankers started the season by giving DLSU its first championship crown in the UAAP Season 74 Swimming Meet last September. The Green-and-White Tankers out swam the UST Tigersharks and the Ateneo Blue Tankers on the rally towards the top spot. The Tankers eyed the prize, delivered, and did not disappoint. One tanker exceeded…
Two matches of the Green-and-White squad in the UAAP Season 74 Men’s Volleyball Tournament did not go as expected. The Green Spikers started with a 1-1 win and loss record after facing the top and the bottom squads of the previous season. With a mixed of seasoned veterans and five promising newcomers, last year’s 3rd…
The 73rd installment of the UAAP arrived at its homestretch last February, but before the University passed its hosting duties to rival school Ateneo De Manila University at the closing ceremonies held at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum, another group of Lasallians made noise before the season’s wind-up. La Salle Dance Company-Street (LSDC) was hailed as the…
On DLSU’s centennial year, Coach Franz Pumaren and Joseph Evans “JV” Casio start their new careers in different teams. Pumaren, mentor of five DLSU UAAP men’s basketball champion squads, is now the head coach of PBA’s newest team, Shopinas.com Clickers. Another Archer, Joseph Evans “JV” Casio, brought the Animo pride on a bigger battle as…
Following the resignation of Dindo Pumaren, Coach Gelacio “Gee” Abanilla is the newly appointed head coach of the Green Archers. Coach Abanilla once donned the Green-and-White jersey as a part of the Pumaren-led championship teams in 1989 and 1990. After his UAAP stint, the 7-Up Bottlers in the fourth round of the 1983 PBA (Philippine…
The Green Judokas and Lady Paddlers finished a step away from the championship, at the end of the first half of the 74th edition of the UAAP hostilities. The Green Judokas’ three-one-five, gold-silver-bronze medal haul was not enough to wrest DLSU’s first UAAP Judo championship against perennial contender UST Judokas. Veterans BG Albarracin, Colin Buckley,…