UP tops UAAP Swimming
By Eddie Alinea
PhilBoxing.com
Thu, 11 Oct 2012
MANILA (PNA) -- A privately-funded development program continued to reap fruits when the University of the Philippines pool sharks, powered by the Diliman Preparatory School and Philippine Swimming League campaigners, showed the way over their Philippine Aquatics Sports Association-affiliated counterparts in dominating the recent UAAP swimming meet held at the Trace College in Los Banos, Laguna.
The UP aces, headed by four-gold medal winner, 19-year-old Ma. Claire Adorna, romped off with the overall championship in the women?s side of competitions, with Delia Angela Cordero sharing the honors by stashing away with the MVP honors in the women?s senior division and Pricila Aquino in the junior girls category.
To make UP?s title conquest sweeter was Adorna?s besting members of PASA?s national training pool in all her gold-medal rampage in the 200-meter freestyle, 50?meter backstroke, 100-meter backstroke and the 50-meter freestyle.
The dusky, 5-foot-8 stunner from Marikina City, in fact, broke the UAAP record in winning the 100-back in a fast one minute and 05.45 seconds clocking that could have qualified her in the First Southeast Asian Swimming championships held in Singapore before last year?s Olympic Games.
Like the fate suffered by her teammates at PSL, PASA, the entity recognized by the Philippine Olympic Committee, did not allow her to participate in the prestigious event.
?Sayang ng po, kasi feeling ko I can give a good account of myself and do our country proud had I been given permission to compete,? the foreign language sophomore at the State U and second of third children of Paul and Juanita Adorna lamented during Friday?s SCOOP session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura.
In marching to the victory podium of the century backstroke, the ever-smiling Adorna survived the challenge put up by PASA pool members Keizia Elise Sarmiento and Ana Celina Gonzales, both of Ateneo, who could only settle for a bronze and fourth place finishes, respectively.
Adorna?s PSL teammate Jacklyn Juniuo made it a 1-2 gold-silver finishes for UP in the same event by ending up on the heels of the Marikina lass.
Adorna completed her domination of Sarmiento and Gonzales in the 50 backstroke even as she also stashed away with the gold medals in the 50 freestyle and the 200 freestyle both at the expense of another PASA tankers Jasmine Ong and Kim Uy.
Because of her domination of her events, Adorna, according to PSL president Susan Papa, will be sent to carry the country?s colors in a goodwill swim meet in Xiamen, China later this month and Shanghai early next month.
Besides crowning himself the MVP in the women?s play, Cordero was also adjudged the Rookie of the Year on the strength of her smashing triumphs in the 400 individual medley, 200 butterfly, 200 individual medley, 400 freestyle and 100 butterfly.
Aquino, only in her early teen, showed a lot of promise by annexing the MVP honors in the girls junior class gifting UP the gold medals in the 50 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 IM, 800 freestyle and 400 freestyle.
Other DPS-PSL stalwarts who shone for UP were Junio who, likewise, smashed the UAAP record in here silver medal harvest behind Adorna in the women?s 200 backstroke; Tiara Beboney Tudio, who swept the women?s 50-meter 100-meter and 200-meter breaststrokes; and junior campaigner Joy Rodgers, winner of the girls? 50-meter, 100-meter and 200-meter breaststroke, also in sweeping fashion.
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