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                    [Title] => UAAP’s top athlete hopes for another SEAG stint
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For tanker Luica Dacanay, winning the UAAP Athlete of the Year award is sweeter the second time around. But what motivates the University of the Phils. stalwart is another likely stint with the national team in the Southeast Asian Games in December.


Dacanay, who raked in seven gold medals in Season 69 of the UAAP to bag the league’s top honors for the second straight year, missed the gold medal in 400m medley relay in the Manila SEA Games two years ago and is itching to prove his worth this year.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 391951 [Title] => UAAP’s top athlete hopes for another SEAG stint [Summary] => For tanker Luica Dacanay, winning the UAAP Athlete of the Year award is sweeter the second time around. But what motivates the University of the Phils. stalwart is another likely stint with the national team in the Southeast Asian Games in December.

Dacanay, who raked in seven gold medals in Season 69 of the UAAP to bag the league’s top honors for the second straight year, missed the gold medal in 400m medley relay in the Manila SEA Games two years ago and is itching to prove his worth this year.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 376563 [Title] => Uy snares 3rd gold; Dacanay cops 2nd [Summary] => Kendrick Uy pocketed his third gold medal and fellow University of the Philippines (UP) swimmer Luica Dacanay added a second to her collection as the UAAP-RP squad kept its poise in the 2006 Asean University Games in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Uy won the men’s 50 meters backstroke and anchored the 4x100 medley team alongside Michaelmars Danila (Ateneo), Timmy Chua (UP) and Jeffrey Laguitao (UP) to victory for his third gold medal after the 100 meters freestyle in the biennial event organized by the Asean University Sports Council.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 376090 [Title] => RP-UAAP wins two swim golds [Summary] => The Philippines scooped two gold and as many silver and bronze medals at the start of the swimming competitions of the 2006 Asean University Games in Hanoi, Vietnam, over the weekend.

University of the Philippines (UP) tankers Kendrick Uy topped the 100 meters freestyle for men and Luica Dacanay ruled the 100 meters backstroke for women for the Philippines’ two gold medals in the biennial competition organized by the Asean University Sports Council.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 301708 [Title] => Danila annexes third swim gold [Summary] => Lizza Danila continued to lord it over her youthful rivals she had wanted to inspire as she ruled the 100-meter backstroke yesterday for her third gold medal in the Bank of Commerce National Tryouts at the Rizal Memorial Sports Center pool.

Back from retirement, the 23-year-old Danila found herself on center stage again after coming up with golden feats in the 100-m free and 200-m back in Tuesday’s opener of the event serving as part of the elimination process in the selection of the national team members for next month’s Southeast Asian Games here.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096369 [AuthorName] => Joey Villar [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 301771 [Title] => Ikatlong ginto nilangoy ni Danila [Summary] => Nilangoy ni Liza Danila ang kanyang pangatlong gintong medalya sa kabila ng halos dalawang bu-wan na pamamahinga sa aktibong paglangoy.

Kinuha ng 2000 Syd-ney Olympic Games cam-paigner ang gintong me-dalya sa women’s 100-meter backstroke sa oras na 1:06.95 sa Day 3 ng Bank of Commerce-National Open Swimming Championships kahapon sa Rizal Memorial Swim-ming Pool.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299929 [Title] => Maroons, Tigresses snatch UAAP swimming tiaras [Summary] => University of the Philippines captured its third straight men’s crown and University of Santo Tomas regained the women’s title in UAAP Season 68 swimming competition recently at the Rizal Memorial pool.

UP, behind Olympian Raphael Matthew Chua who ruled the 50, 100 and 200 meters breaststroke, chalked up 304.5 points in snaring the title, actually the second for the Diliman-based swimmers this season-the other being the girls’ (high school) plum.
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The Philippine Amateur Swimming Association (PASA) has put up its own fund-raising campaign just to ensure the smooth participation of six Filipino swimmers in Asia’s final Olympic qualifying tournament later this month in Kuala Lumpur.

Anthony Lozada, PASA training director, said the fund-raiser is intended to augment whatever financial assistance that would come from the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), the government’s funding arm in sports.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804774 [AuthorName] => Abac Cordero [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 229855 [Title] => 3 golds target ng RP tankers sa Vietnam SEAG [Summary] => Tatlong golds ang target ng Philippine swim-ming team sa kanilang kampanya sa Vietnam Southeast Asian Games na magsisimula sa susunod na linggo.

Ito ay base na rin sa kanilang magandang performance sa naka-raang SEA Age-group swimfest na ginanap sa San Pablo City at Asian-Afro Games.

Kumpiyansa si Guy Concepcion kina Miguel Molina, Mendoza at Carlo Piccio na makakapagbigay ng tig-isang gold sa kani-kanilang paboritong event.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 220410 [Title] => RP kampeon sa Southeast Asian age-group swimfest [Summary] => SAN PABLO CITY -- Gaya ng dapat asahan, di na pinakawalan pa ng Philippines sa kanilang mga kamay ang pagkakataon nang tuluyang isubi ang korona upang tanghaling overall champion sa Southeast Asian Age Group swimming championships kahapon dito sa San Pablo City Swimming Center.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) ) )
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