According to him, the membership status of the two schools was decided on Wednesday by the NCAA Policy Board and the Mancom members , adding that EAC and AU would be on probationary status for three years.

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I’ve been busy these past few months doing my internship at Trend Micro Philippines. Because of that, I miss working out and doing some sweat. So I decided to register to the Adidas King of the Road 2009.

This will be my first major race event and I’d like it to be worth remembering. Join me and let’s have fun!

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The Lions clashed with the Cardinals at 2 P.M. after United States Ambassador Kristie Kenney graced the Association’s inaugurals as a guest speaker. Scoring 85 points against the Cardinals’ 52.

Riego Gamalinda and Sudan Daniel scored 14 and 13 points, respectively, to lead the Red Lions in season opener before jam packed Araneta Coliseum. Meanwhile, Mark Acosta and Paul Cinco of the Cardinals, scored with 10 points each.

“I felt a lot of pressure. I expect the next games to be more challenging. I need to step up my rebounding,” said Daniel, the six-foot-eight American rookie who is expected to replace last year’s MVP Sam Ekwe as the starting center.

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“You need to help student athletes help you win championships.” – Galwin Fabian

Every school wants to win.  Every school wants to have a trophy. Every school wants fame. Yet only few schools understand that, in order to, they need to put the right pieces together; they need  jocks that can deliver, they need the effective programs to help them, and they need an elite-level head coach on the team.

In this article, I’ll share what I learned from the past five years that I played for college the things I think every school needs to have in order to win.

Athletic Program

Implement a good recruitment program. To win a championship you need good players and to have good players you need to have a good recruitment program. Because if you don’t have a good recruitment program, it’s almost as good as saying you’ll never recruit good players. But still, few schools implement a good recruitment program and we can understand why, because it’s costly. Schools need to shell out more money for it because they need to send out more scouts in different places to look for potential athletes.

Schools like FEU, Letran and UST goes to different province just to look for potential players. Often times, their scouts and coaches goes to regional tournaments and Palarong Pambansa where they recruit athletes that finish at the top.

How does it help? Let’s take a look at Cleveland Cavaliers for example, LeBron James is a great player but there’s no one who he can truly rely on if he’s covered. One good player may be able to do it but it’s hard. Recruit good players and then look for championships.

Provide effective training program. Even if your players are good they still need to improve. That’s the beauty of sports, there is a certain level of competitiveness at any one time and it’s raised every now and then.

How does it help? Eventually, with an effective training program, we’ll soon see good athlete’s evolve into (or even better) Micheal Jordan, Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods or Paeng Nepumuceno.

The importance of a coach. It doesn’t matter if it’s a singles or a team competition, every athlete knows how important a coach is. A good coach knows how to use players effectively, they know how to train athletes to reach their full potential and they know what to do on every situations in the game.

Provide athlete’s proper nutritional diet. Proper diet, including carbohydrates and proteins intake provides the  required energy athletes needs in order to excel.

Raise school spirit. There’s a reason why cheer leading was invented. Players needs to be cheered, they need to be motivated. Raising school spirit raises a player’s morale and their athletic skills during the game. Let the students in your school watch the games of their classmates,  let them be proud of themselves.

Academic Program

By far, the most often neglected and the most important program every school should provide to their athletes.

I personally believe people think that the better a student athlete plays the lesser his performance are in academics. People equate athletic skills to academic skills like that. I confess I do and I’m afraid that it is partly true.

This goes back to how student athletes manage their time, how they balance school and sports. But first, let me ask you a question, suppose  you’re an athlete and you’re a top-caliber player and you or your team have a great chance of winning a championship  in the league your school is a member of. What would you do more, hone your skills or study your notes? Suppose there is a high paying professional league waiting for you when you perform exemplary well during your college years as an amateur athlete, what would you do more, hone your skills or study your notes? Conversely, if there is no professional league in your sports, what would you do? Would you still prefer to do more of sports than academics?

Personally, I think that whatever path our athletes choose to take, schools should provide them with the approriate academic program that suits them .

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Let’s skip college sports for a while and talk about pool. Specifically Women’s pool player Shanelle Loraine.

Born: March 25
Hometown: Guam, USA
Current residence: Orlando, Florida
Height: 5’1”
Hair Color: Brown
Eye color: Light brown

Shanelle Loraine, a Fil-American Pool Player from Orlando is gaining some popularity not only in the pool world but in the world wide web, too.

Loraine played in the Women’s World 10-Ball Championship held here in the Philippines (June 2-6, 2009), showing her skills to Filipino billiards enthusiasts.

With all those beautiful pool players coming out, Shanelle included, it looks like their having a mini beauty pageant while pooling. She does not belong to the top pool players in the world, as Shanelle Loraine only started playing pool in 2000, but being the #1 women’s player in Guam is good enough for me. She’s a pretty player with nice skills at playing pool plus she pulls a number of audience – an International Pool Star.

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Now, the fierce rivalry between Ateneo de Manila University and De la Salle University has spilled over into A(H1N1) arena. Sort of.

According to the data from the World Health Organization (WHO), swine flu has spread to 66 countries with 19,273 people known to have been infected since the disease was first uncovered in Mexico in April.

Spread it is.

Last week, CHED moved school opening to June 15 when a foreign student of La Salle was confirmed positive of A(H1N1). A few days later, a second foreign student from La Salle was tested positive for A(H1N1). And on June 10, Ateneo de Manila University suspended its class for ten (10) days when three high school students tested positive for swine flu.

If you’re counting, Ateneo leads La Salle three to two.

(The students responded well to treatments and is reportedly feeling better. I hope this swine flue flies out of our country already.)

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We will see these three guest teams field in players to compete in six (6) mandatory sports – athletics, basketball, cheer leading, football, swimming, and volleyball. If they decide to join other sports disciplines like table tennis and chess they have that option to do so.

Let’s take a look on these three teams.

Emilio Aguinaldo College. This PACUCOA accredited school formerly known as Marian School of Midwifery looks serious in its bid in joining the NCAA. Joining just as a guest team, they already boosted their basketball program by enlisting the service of African import Romeo Fortue.

The Ermita based EAC Generals is a member school of Universities and Colleges Athletic Association (UCAA), a young athletic association that started in 2002 and National Capital Region Athletic Association (NCRAA). Do not think that this rookies of the league will give a little to no pressure to the member schools’ basketball teams,  the Generals was a three-peat basketball champion in the UCAA from 2004-2006. In 2004 EAC Generals defeated PSBA-QC Jaguars, in 2005 EAC Generals defeated DLSU-D Patriots and in 2006 EAC Generals defeated St Francis Doves. The Generals also won a men’s basketball championship in the NCRAA during the academic year 2004-05, defeating San Lorenzo.

Angeles University Foundation. Honestly, I’m surprised that this school wants to be part of NCAA. The school is far from Manila and you know how heavy the traffic is especially during school days. Traveling from Angeles  to Manila would take at least three (3) hours.

Does joining in the oldest athletic association outweighs the burden for both the school and the student-athlete’s? To think of it, AUF will have to spend a chunk of money for travel expenses, while the jocks need to cut their personal life (or study hours) even more. Besides, I don’t know how these long rides will affect the student-athlete’s game performance but this early, I could only guess one thing – poor performance.

Arellano University.  The university that was named for former Chief Justice of the Philippines, Cayetano Arellano, is  already marking its name in the athletic competitions prior to joining in the NCAA as a guest team. Arellano’s basketball team, the Arellano Chiefs won a back-to-back championships in the NCRAA. Spearheaded by former Cardinals’s coach, Leo Isaac, won in 2006 by defeated EAC and in 2007, Arellano defeated St. Francis.

How do you think these three (3) schools will do in the NCAA? Share them below.

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