Tag: No. 3

DALAWANG mundo ang ginagalawan at inaasahang pagtatagumpayan ng isang estudyanteng atleta: ang mundo ng kompetisyon sa kaniyang larangan at ang mundo sa loob ng silid-aralan.

Tahanan para sa higit 400 estudyanteng manlalaro ang Unibersidad. Inaasahan mula sa kanila ang parehong pagsisiskap sa silid-aralan at husay sa paglalaro upang makapagbigay karangalan sa Unibersidad.

BUMANGON ang UST Tiger Cubs sa balon ng kasawian matapos nitong bumawi sa apat na sunudsunod na pagkatalo sa pagdurog sa National University Bullpups, 82-61, nuong Hulyo 31 sa Araneta Coliseum. Bitbit ngayon ng Tiger Cubs ang isang 2-4 win-loss card.

Pinangunahan ni Tiger Cub guard Patrick Pulido ang atake ng UST sa huling kanto nang magpasiklab siya ng sunudsunod na ratsada at magkalat ng siyam na puntos. Hindi na nakapalag ang NU sa matinik na depensa ng Tiger Cubs nang magawa lamang nitong magpasingaw ng 14 puntos laban sa 21 ng UST.

PINILI ni Jervy Cruz, isang manlalaro ng UST Growling Tigers Team B, na ipagpaliban ang pagsali sa “Basketball Without Borders Asia” na ginanap noong Hulyo 14-17 sa Beijing, China upang ituon ang sarili sa pag-aaral.

“Pinili na lang niya na huwag sumama kasi apat na araw din siyang liliban kung sakali,” ani coach Nel Parado.

“Nanghinayang ako sa pagkakataon kasi para sa akin talaga iyon,” sabi ni Cruz.

HINDI na mabilang sa daliri ang taekwondo championship belts na napanalunan ng 2nd dan blackbelter at Tomasinong jin na si Giorgio Von Gerri De Guzman, ang pinakabata at kauna-unahang Asian Junior Champion sa bansa.

Kasalukuyang nasa unang taon sa kursong Nursing, hindi katulad ng ibang kabataang 17-anyos si De Guzman dahil bukod sa palagian siyang honor student, isa rin siyang kampeon sa pandaigdigang kompetisyon ng Taekwondo.

Ligaw na tupa

“WHAT won the general championship for us was not skill but heart.”

It was how athletic moderator Felix Michael Silbor described the University’s championship run in UAAP season 66.

This year, UST’s campaign for a 32nd UAAP title is faced with tough opposition from perennial title contenders University of the Philippines (UP) and De La Salle University (DLSU). Both schools were tied at second place last season registering 258 points, while UST garnered 284 points.

WHOEVER thought that Wimbledon, perhaps the most elite international lawn tennis tournament, is an impenetrable territory to Filipino athletes is sorely mistaken. A Filipino reached the exclusive Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships 24 years ago the second to do so since Johnny Jose. And he was a Thomasian.

TEN YEARS of high-octane dragon boat rowing.

For an international sports squad to survive this long even without the luxury of having a regular team sponsor or even a school to represent, it is correct to say that the Aqua Fortis Dragon Boat Rowing Team (AFDBRT) is truly a product of pure passion. In its 10 years of existence, this Thomasian-laden team has gone to restless bodies of water to pocket strings of medals and place the country’s name in the international dragon boat racing circuit.

A VARSITARIAN sportswriter placed second in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) Libre Sportswriting competition last July 1.

Sportswriter Dino Paolo Maragay’s article was chosen out of 30 pieces by campus paper writers from De La Salle University, University of the East, Adamson University, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Systems Technology Institute and San Sebastian. The competition’s first placer was a writer from the UP Collegian.

THE TIGER Shuttlecockers ended up short again.

With a depleted lineup, the España-based female shuttlecockers bowed out of the JVC Open Badminton Championships last July 25. The Female Shuttlecockers lost to the Far Eastern University Lady shuttlecockers in the finals, while the Tiger shuttlecockers bowed to the Morayta-based shuttlecockers in the semis.

The Tigers did not only fall short of won matches, but also fell short of players.

Female shuttlecockers

WITH no reliable center and lacking in veteran leadership, the Tigers’ campaign this season seems to be a dance with disaster.

As the Tigers’ make-shift centers are still finding their way in the paint, the team’s struggle to establish chemistry has added up to the trouble. In their first four games, the Tigers has averaged 20 turnovers a game.

Tiger coach Reonel “Nel” Parado was even too open, and even too honest, about his expectations for the Tigers this season.

“Expect the worst,” he said.