By Graham C. Lim
FOUR badminton athletes—two males and two females —have been endorsed by the Federation of School Sports Association of the Philippines to take part in the 29th Summer Universiade to be held in Taipei City from Aug. 19 to 30 this year.
This came about following the completion of the 5th National Students Badminton Championship recently at the Valencia Badminton Sports Center.
Endorsed by the FESSAP Board to compete in the Taipei Universiade are National University’s Alem Palmares and De La Salle-Lipa’s Mac Lawrence Marfat in the male category and Loverly Dezelle Magallano of the Lyceum University of the Philippines) and Christine Garin of Adamson University from the distaff side.
The complete results of the 5th National Students Badminton Championship are as follows:
Men’s Final Standings: Champion Alem Palmares (National University); 1st Runner Up Mac Lawrence Marfa (De La Salle-Lipa); 2nd Runner Up Jerome Pechera (Adamson University); 4th Adriean Rigonan (College of Saint Benilde); 5th Josh Defensor (University of Santo Tomas); 6th Leo Jeff Prince Orsolino (Letran College-Manila); 7th Alex Climaco (Lyceum University of the Philippines); and 8th Jhonel Rebito (San Sebastian College-Recoletos)
In the women’s side, the winners are Champion Loverly Dezelle Magallano (Lyceum University of the Philippines); 1st Runner Up Christine Garin (Adamson University); 2nd Runner Up Gielyn Ochoa (College of Saint Benilde); 4th Joy Tubongbanua (Lyceum); 5th Jona Mae Juanillo (De La Salle-Lipa); 6th Kat Canon (Mapua Institute of Technology); 7th Samantha Citron (De La Salle-Lipa); 8th Denisse Estrella (Mapua Institute of Technology)
The members of the FESSAP Organizing Committee that supervised the Universiade-qualifying tryouts were Robert Milton Calo, JC Clarito, Cecil Sarmiento, Annie Rodas, Dolores Uy Chan, Fructuso Raytos, Kert Bryan Ocampo, and Reymundo Nillama.