Tag: Ateneo
UAAP: Growth vital as Ateneo defends title with ‘new team’
Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin gives instructions to his players during a timeout against Japan’s Hakuoh University at the World University Basketball Series in Tokyo, Japan. Photo from Musong Castillo/INQUIRER MANILA, Philippines — Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin admitted his “new team” needs to grow as quickly as possible in its UAAP title defense which begins Saturday…
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Roma Mae Doromal rises to challenge of leading rebuilding Ateneo
Ateneo Blue Eagles’ Roma Mae Doromal. –UAAP PHOTO MANILA, Philippines —Roma Mae Doromal is embracing her bigger role as the leader of the rebuilding Ateneo Blue Eagles as they usher in a new era under Brazilian coach Sergio Veloso in the Shakey’s Super League (SSL) preseason championship. The ace libero, who was tapped as the…
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Ateneo title defense ends with loss to home team Hakuoh at World University Series – rezal404
Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin gives instructions to his players during a timeout against Japan’s Hakuoh University at the World University Basketball Series in Tokyo, Japan. Photo from Musong Castillo/INQUIRER TOKYO—Ateneo vs Radford University of the United States will happen after all. It just won’t be for the World University Basketball Series title. A Hakuoh University…
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Beyond basketball, Ateneo coach hopes to mold respectable professionals – rezal404
Josh Lazaro (No. 16) slams one home for what proved to be the marginal point in the last 52.1seconds of a 70-69 win over the Japan U-21 team. —WORLD UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL SERIES Tab Baldwin is making it no secret that he’s at Ateneo to make champion teams out of every batch of Blue Eagles he…
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Ateneo fends off Japan U21 selection in friendly ahead of World University tilt – rezal404
Coach Tab Baldwin and Ateneo Blue Eagles during a friendly game against a Japanese U21 selection team. –MUSONG CASTILLO TOKYO—Ateneo kept its big guns in the veritable cabinet in playing an Under-21 selection from Japan Thursday night, and the equally young Blue Eagles carried the torch well enough in carving out a 70-69 victory in…
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Not charmed by ‘fool’s gold,’ Ateneo keeps sights on getting better – rezal404
Coach Tab Baldwin and Ateneo Blue Eagles during a friendly game against a Japanese selection team. –MUSONG CASTILLO TOKYO—Looking at how tall the Ateneo Blue Eagles are for the coming UAAP season, there’s one small player conspicuously missing from the roster that gave them last year’s championship. Forthsky Padrigao, the heady court general seen as…
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Joseph Obasa ‘the perfect teammate,’ says Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin – rezal404
Ateneo Blue Eagles’ Joseph Obasa. TOKYO—There’s an eagerness one can see in Joseph Obasa every time he plays. That’s understandable, since he has just a UAAP season to play for Ateneo. An incoming rookie at 24 years old, the 6-foot-10 center is making the most out of any kind of playing time he gets—be that…
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Ateneo faces tougher World University field – rezal404
Ateneo coach Tab Baldwin during the Filoil pre-season tournament. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net A collegiate power here priming up to extend its UAAP reign, Ateneo flies out to the Land of the Rising Sun to slug it out with top-flight teams coming from all over the world. Facing champion college programs from Australia and South Korea and…
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Ateneo Blue Eagles defend WUBS title minus Forthsky Padrigao – rezal404
Ateneo Blue Eagles. –World University Basketball Series Photo Ateneo leaves later this week to not only defend its World University Basketball Series title against a souped-up field, but to also get better in its quest to win the UAAP title for the second straight year. The four-day tournament set at Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo…
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Forthsky Padrigao leaves Ateneo Blue Eagles – rezal404
FILE – Ateneo guard Forthsky Padrigao during UAAP Season 85. Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines—Forthsky Padrigao has bid Ateneo farewell not long after the Blue Eagles announced he’s ineligible to play in the UAAP Season 86 due to academic deficiencies. Padrigao announced his departure from Ateneo in an Instagram post on Monday. “After everything…
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