JRU bags 3rd straight NCAA athletics crown
By Marc Anthony Reyes
Jose Rizal University captured a third straight athletics championship in the NCAA recently, amassing 856 points behind a strong performance in the field events.
Jose Rizal University captured a third straight athletics championship in the NCAA recently, amassing 856 points behind a strong performance in the field events.
National Capital Region pulled off another sweep of top honors in the elementary and high school divisions in officially claiming the 2013 Palarong Pambansa overall championship Saturday.
SO ANOTHER Palarong Pambansa will come and go. The athletes will go home richer and wiser having survived not only the competition but the difficulties of travel and living away from comfort zones. There were reports of food poisoning and other difficulties but this is to be expected when throngs of humanity descend on a place.
Plastic utensils, styrofoam and bags used for packed meals will be prohibited while the 17 delegations will be required to plant at least 15 trees endemic in the area.
Team UAAP-Philippines seized medals in athletics Monday in the 16th Asean University Games in Vientiane, Laos.
PHILIPPINE Amateur Track and Field Association president Go Teng Kok yesterday said he is being asked by officials of the Asian Athletics Association to stay as head of the country’s athletics body.
Action in the second half of the 75th Season of the UAAP heats up as athletics and softball tournaments kick off.
Leah Joan Creer crowned herself the “fastest girl” of the games after completing a sprints double as host Leyte Sports Academy-Smart dominated track and field yesterday in the POC-PSC Batang Pinoy Visayas leg here.
Members of Team Philippines marched alongside more than 2,000 athletes from 24 countries in the 17th Asia Masters Athletics Championships at Taipei Gymnasium here on Friday.
WHAT do tracksters Dee Dee Trotter, Keshia Baker, Tianna Madison and Lauryn Wiliams have in common?
ARMED with high hopes of making it big in the international level, a group of young Filipino athletes attended a two-week Summer School Sports Scholarship at St. Bede’s that coincided with the London Olympics last month.
Quezon City and Marikina grabbed the gold medals in centerpiece events of swimming and track and field, but it was Manila which ended up capturing the overall championships in the National Capital Region leg of the POC-PSC Batang Pinoy 2012 that ended Friday at Marikina Sports Complex.
Taguig’s Gianeli Gatinga posted a pair of golden performances in girls’ athletics even as Manila and Quezon City made off with bumper harvests on two fronts at the start of the POC-PSC Batang Pinoy 2012 yesterday at Marikina Sports Complex.
