THE UAAP general championship stays on the Tigers’ lair.
For 11 straight years, UST remains as the school to beat in the country’s premier collegiate sporting arena as it captured its 36th UAAP overall title since co-founding the league in 1938.
Buoyed by an insurmountable 333 point-aggregate, UST comfortably topped the league’s Season 71 edition, fending off the challenge of perennial rival De La Salle University and host University of the Philippines, which finished second and third with 241 and 235 points, respectively. Back in the first semester, the Pontifical University amassed 167 points to seize the lead.
UST emerged as champions in nine out of 28 disciplines which included men’s and women’s taekwondo, men’s swimming, men’s table tennis, men’s beach volleyball, men’s fencing, women’s football, women’s tennis and men’s volleyball.
Meanwhile, the España-based squad also chalked up eight runner-up finishes in women’s table tennis, men’s chess, men’s badminton, men’s tennis, softball, men’s and women’s athletics and women’s judo.
UST wound up third in women’s swimming, women’s chess, women’s beach volleyball, men’s judo, women’s badminton, women’s volleyball, women’s fencing and women’s basketball.
Men’s football and baseball handed UST identical fourth-place finishes while men’s basketball settled for fifth.
UST also dominated the juniors’ division, bringing home its third consecutive and 11th overall title since the high school general championship format was introduced in 1995.
The UST high school athletes gathered 99 markers to overcome archrival University of the East high school by a slim seven-point margin. Ateneo placed third with 87 points.
The juniors’ contingent ruled the girls’ swimming, table tennis and girls’ volleyball. UST also booked runner-up honors in taekwondo and boys’ swimming and finished third in track and field and boys’ volleyball.
