FEU, UP clinch UAAP Season 87 athletics titles

FEU Woman Tamaraws athletics crew win the crown within the UAAP Season 87. –UAAP PHOTO

Far Jap College and College of the Philippines reclaimed the ladies’s and males’s titles, respectively, on the UAAP Season 87 athletics championships held at New Clark Metropolis Athletics Stadium.

The Woman Tamaraws scored 84 factors on the ultimate day, ending with 397.5 factors to say their league-leading twenty fifth UAAP girls’s championship and their first since Season 81. This victory additionally marked FEU’s first title of the season.

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The Preventing Maroons fended off a late problem from the FEU Tamaraws, ending the competitors with 290 factors, simply 4 forward of FEU. This secured their twenty first males’s championship and their second title of the season, following the ladies’s badminton championship.

FEU head coach Ross Hamero expressed her satisfaction along with her crew’s efficiency.

“It was an superior feeling as a result of everyone knows how exhausting it’s to win a championship. From recruitment to the accidents of gamers, it was actually satisfying, particularly since I didn’t count on that our lead would attain 100 factors.”

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“I’m actually impressed with the gamers; I’m amazed by what they confirmed. Earlier than, they have been like infants, however now, you’ll be able to see them as true Tamaraws, actually preventing,” the long-time mentor added.

College of Santo Tomas took two gold medals on the ultimate day, profitable the shot put with Jamela de Asis and the 100-meter hurdles with Lyka Miravalles, ending in second place with 291 factors.

De Asis dominated the shot put with a throw of 12.78 meters, effectively forward of FEU’s Mary Jean Maloy-on (11.82m) and UP’s Aina Masangkay (11.05m). Miravalles gained the hurdles with a time of 14.68 seconds, narrowly edging La Salle’s Abcd Agamanos, who completed second at 14.69 seconds. UST’s Justine Mae Candoy positioned third with a time of 14.96 seconds.

The Preventing Maroons narrowly defeated La Salle for the ultimate podium spot with 195 factors, regardless of the latter’s robust end. La Salle’s quartet of Hanna Jandra Delotavo, Jessel Lumapas, Erica Ruto, and eventual back-to-back MVP Bernalyn Bejoy set a brand new UAAP file within the 4x400m relay with a time of three:47.37, breaking their very own file of three:50.33 set on December 4, 2022. FEU (3:51.43) and UST (3:57.47) completed second and third, whereas UP’s sixth-place end (4:08.07) accomplished the rostrum.

Woman Tamaraw Shane Ponce was named Rookie of the 12 months within the girls’s division.

UP regains Throne

UP Preventing Maroons males’s athletics crew in UAAP Season 87. –UAAP PHOTO

Ed Deliña set the tone for UP’s championship run by profitable the lads’s hammer throw with a throw of 49.41 meters, effectively forward of UST’s John Nicholan Pangan (42.81m) and Jhon Laurenze Ballelos (42.08m).

Josh Buenavista claimed silver for UP within the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9:31.67, simply behind the eventual Most Priceless Participant, FEU’s Alfrence Braza, who completed in 9:30.93. Nationwide College’s Renz Cruz took third with a time of 9:37.44.

FEU additionally claimed the gold within the 110-m hurdles, with Timothy Okolo ending in 14.58 seconds, forward of College of the East’s Edgie Garbin, UST’s John Celestino Romero, and FEU’s Joseph Antiola III in a photograph end. Garbin and Romero took second and third, leaving Antiola and the Tamaraws off the rostrum.

Needing a win within the ultimate occasion, the 4×400-meter relay, the FEU quartet of Timothy Okolo, Andreas Womack, Gervickson Labora, and Jazzpeer Arcenal pushed exhausting however got here up quick, settling for bronze with a time of three:17.23.

The gold within the 4×400-meter relay went to NU, with John Lloyd Cabalo, Khenneth Simtim, John Masuhol, and Orly Orongan clocking a brand new league file of three:14.00. This new file broke the earlier mark of three:17.04 set by UP in 2018.

Regardless of the record-breaking relay efficiency, the general championship returned to UP.

“Nagpapasalamat ako sa mga athletes natin na binigay nila ‘yung kanilang one hundred pc, ‘yung dedication nila, and ‘yung sacrifices,” mentioned UP head coach Rio Dela Cruz. “Hindi namin ‘to inaasahan pero ito naman talaga ‘yung purpose namin. Earlier than mag-start, sinabi ko na sa kanila na, ‘I believe we’ve an opportunity if you happen to give your all.’ Alam namin na nag-prepare naman kami and i-enjoy lang nila. And true sufficient, nangyari naman ‘to.”

UST completed in third place with 236 factors.

Ateneo de Manila College’s Hassan Lorana was named Rookie of the 12 months within the males’s division.