Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Congratulations ADMU (Season 71 Version)

This comes very late and I know they won the Uni-games already but I feel like I'm going to do this every year.

Run-down of the Ateneo Basketball Awardees of UAAP Season 71:

Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles
UAAP Season 71 Senior Men's Basketball Champions

Rabeh Ahmed Al-Hussaini
UAAP Season 71 Senior Men's Basketball
Mythical 5 Member
and
Most Valuable Player

Christopher John Alandy-Dy Tiu
UAAP Season 71 Senior Men's Basketball Mythical 5 Member

Ryan Clarence Buenafe
UAAP Season 71 Senior Men's Basketball Rookie of the Year

Severino Baclao
UAAP Season 71 Senior Men's Basketball Finals MVP

Special Awards:
PS Bank Ultimate Maaasahan Player: Christopher John Tiu
KFC Court Colonel: Eric Salamat
Smart Defensive Player of the Year: Severino Baclao
Jollibee Champ of the Season: Rabeh Ahmed Al-Hussaini
Appeton Most Improved Player: Rabeh Ahmed Al-Hussaini
Tokyo Tokyo Rookie Team Center: Nicolas Salva
Tokyo Tokyo Rookie Team Forward: Ryan Clarence Buenafe

This was an overwhelmingly great season for the Ateneo Blue Eagles. I agree what I read from someone's comment: They exhibited great teamwork and that automatically translated to individual awards for the members of the team. Two men don't make a team, 16 people do. That's what the Ateneo Blue Eagles team showed everyone this season. Congratulations!!! :D

Ateneo de Manila High School Blue Eaglets
UAAP Season 71 Junior's Basketball Champions

Juan Miguel Tiongson
UAAP Season 71 Junior's Basketball Mythical 5 Member

John David Dumrique
UAAP Season 71 Junior's Basketball Finals MVP

The Blue Eaglets was awesome this year too. Once again, I just got to watch the finals but they were great. These facts just kind of make me sad: they have 4 graduating players, there are only 2 graduating players from the Blue Eagles and there are great players from other high schools. Oh well. For now, it's great celebrating the awesomeness of the Junior's team. This is what - their 16th or 17th title? Congratulations Blue Eaglets!!! :D

And to our women's team - our defending champions - they did put of a fight and so deserves the schools thanks and congratulations. Go get them next year. :D

//There are also other Ateneo teams who won championships in and out of the UAAP but I don't have the full details. Maybe after the second sem, I'll post a rundown of all the Ateneo awards for this UAAP season. :)

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