De La Salle Green Archers

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De La Salle Green Archers De La Salle University-Manila
League	UAAP
Joined	1986 Founding member of the NCAA on 1924
Seniors' general championships	UAAP: none NCAA: 6 (1967-68, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1980-81)
Juniors' general championships	NCAA: 5 (1965-66, 1966-67, 1971-72, 1973-74, 1974-75)
Location	Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila (Srs.) Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City (Jrs.)
Team colors	Green and white
Juniors' team	Junior Archers (formerly the Green Bengals)
Women's team	Lady Archers
Staple cheer	Animo La Salle!

The De La Salle Green Archers (also La Salle Green Archers) is the varsity team of De La Salle University-Manila in the University Athletics Association of the Philippines.

Their main rivals are the Letran Knights during the Archers' NCAA days (1924-1980) and the Ateneo Blue Eagles, FEU Tamaraws and the UST Growling Tigers in the UAAP (from 1986 to present).

Contents 1 Player ineligibility scandal 2 Basketball 2.1 Notable players 2.1.1 Retired numbers 3 Volleyball 3.1 Women's Volleyball 3.1.1 Notable players 4 Football 4.1 Women's Football 5 Ranking

[edit] Player ineligibility scandal

On October 10, 2005, the University revealed to the newspapers that a certain player was discovered by the school itself to be ineligible to play in the UAAP. The player was discovered by the university to have previously submitted a falsified government-issued Department of Education Philippine Educational Placement Test Certificate of Rating (PEPTCR, a government-issued replacement for a regular high school diploma) before he was admitted to college in La Salle in schoolyear 2003-04. In November 2005 after concluding the university's official internal investigation and officially submitting its report to the UAAP Board, the University has returned the 2004 UAAP championship and 2005 runner-up trophies.

Internet message boards later identified the player as Mark Benitez. La Salle officials reported on October 16 that the student in question was missing. On October 18, a meeting was held between the player's camp and the La Salle administrators. Benitez' father denied reports that his son failed the PEPTCR. La Salle also admitted, after Dep-Ed submitted its La findings to La Salle, that a second Green Archer, Tim Gatchalian, used spurious Dep-Ed government-issued documents to enter college in the university, and hence, ineligible in the UAAP.

In a letter addressed to the UAAP, De La Salle informed the league of their intent to take a leave from men's basketball. [1] The UAAP rejected this move by La Salle, saying that because basketball is a required event for members' continuing participation, La Salle had to have a leave of absence on all sports and not just Men's Basketball.

In a meeting held at Adamson University on April 21, 2006, the UAAP Board unanimously voted to suspend De La Salle from all UAAP events for the 2006-2007 (69th) season due to negligence. The UAAP board also decided to award the 2004 Seniors Basketball crown to the Far Eastern University Tamaraws.

[edit] Basketball

The Green Archers have been successful in basketball since joining the NCAA in 1924, winning five titles in the said league. However, a huge brawl between them and rivals Letran Knights in the 1980 second round game forced the school to vacate the league. Letran was suspended the next NCAA season (1981-82) for one-year by the NCAA due to the brawl.

In 1986, La Salle joined the UAAP and has won six titles in its 20-year participation in the league. From 1998-2001, La Salle won four straight UAAP basketball titles.

[edit] Notable players

• Kurt Bachmann
• Enrique Valles
• Leo Prieto
• Manolet Araneta
• Eddie Decena
• Ramoncito Campos
• Valentin "Tito" Eduque
• Mike Bilbao
• Lim Eng Beng
• Franz Pumaren
• Dindo Pumaren
• Joel Uichico
• Joseph "Jong" Uichico
• Zandro "Jun" Limpot
• Joey Santamaria
• Dickie Bachmann
• Eddie Viaplana
• Noli Locsin
• Johnedel Cardel
• Tony Boy Espinosa
• Ren-Ren Ritualo
• Don Carlos Allado
• Mike Cortez
• Mark Cardona
• Gino Flores
• Joseph "The Ninja" Yeo
• Mark Telan
• Jason Webb
• Chris Tan
• Dino Aldeguer
• BJ Manalo
• Richard Del Rosario
• TY Tang
• Marko Batricevic
• Simon Atkins
• Yves Dignadice

[edit] Retired numbers

• 4 Ren-Ren Ritualo (played in 5-UAAP seasons for the Green Archers:1997,1998,1999,2000&2001)
• 14 Lim Eng Beng (played in 4-NCAA seasons for the Green Archers:1971,1972,1973&1974)
• 33 Kurt Bachmann (played in 4-NCAA seasons for the Green Archers:1956,1957,1958&1959)

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Women's Volleyball

The Women's Volleyball team has been successful over the past few seasons. They have won the UAAP title for the last few years also the reigning three-time champions in the school-based commercial league Shakey's V-League.

[edit] Notable players

• Maureen Penetrante
• Manilla Santos
• Desiree Hernandez
• Chie Saet
• Shermaine Penano

[edit] Football

[edit] Women's Football

The Women's football team is the current five-time reigning UAAP champions but its streak ended in the 2006 campaign due to the UAAP suspension. Hans Smit is the team's head coach.

[edit] Ranking

Being the three most popular sports in UAAP, this is the school's ranking in each sport since 1987, the year, the UAAP became an 8-team league:

A.Y.	MEN'S BASKETBALL	WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL	MEN'S FOOTBALL
1987-1988	6th	7th	6th
1988-1989	2nd	7th	6th
1989-1990	1st	5th	6th
1990-1991	1st	6th	5th
1991-1992	2nd	6th	4th
1992-1993	3rd	7th	2nd
1993-1994	3rd	7th	1st
1994-1995	2nd	7th	1st
1995-1996	2nd	5th	2nd
1996-1997	2nd	5th	1st
1997-1998	2nd	5th	1st
1998-1999	1st	4th	5th
1999-2000	1st	4th	1st
2000-2001	1st	4th	4th
2001-2002	1st	3rd	6th
2002-2003	2nd	3rd	6th
2003-2004	8th*	1st	6th
2004-2005	8th*	1st	5th
2005-2006	8th*	1st	2nd
2006-2007	Suspended	Suspended	Suspended

Notes: *Due to the player inegibility scandal, DLSU's 3rd, 1st and 2nd finish respectively from 2003-2005, were all forfeited.