UE Red Warriors and Lady Warriors

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UE Red Warriors and Lady Warriors
UE Red Warriors Logo.svg
SchoolUniversity of the East
League UAAP
Joined1952
LocationClaro M. Recto Ave., Sampaloc Manila, Philippines
Team colorsRed UE colors.svg White
Juniors' teamUE Junior Warriors
Seniors' general championships
  • UAAP: 5
    1965-66 1969-70 1971-72 1972-73 1974-75
Juniors' general championships
  • UAAP: 2
    2005-06 2013-14

The UE Red Warriors and Lady Warriors refer to the collegiate men's and women's varsity teams of the University of the East. The Athletic Director of the university is Rodrigo M. Roque. The UE Junior Warriors is the university's high school varsity team.

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Background

The University of the East is one of eight schools participating in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines. The UE Warriors teams have won UAAP championships in basketball, volleyball, fencing, table tennis and other sports. UE athletes also participate in other intercollegiate tournaments as well as invitational tournaments abroad.

Sports

Basketball

As of 2006, The Red Warriors were tied with the University of Santo Tomas as the second most successful team in UAAP men's basketball, with 18 titles, most of them coming from the time of coach Baby Dalupan and Robert Jaworski. [1]

The UE Red Warriors holds the longest senior basketball championship run with seven straight UAAP titles. They also hold the longest finals streak appearances, with sixteen straight from 1957 to 1972. [1] The team has also represented the country at the 1967 Summer Universiade. [2]

UE also participates in the Father Martin Cup and Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL) men's (and women's) basketball tournaments. The UE Red Warriors were crowned as champions of the 2006 Philippine Collegiate Champions League. They are also the 2013 FilOil/Flying V-Hanes Preseason Cup champions.

Pre UAAP season highlights

  • Champion - 2013 FilOil Flying V Hanes Premier Cup: The Red Warriors won the 2013 FilOil Flying V Hanes Premier Cup. [3]
  • 10th Fr. Martin Division Cup: The team won the 10th Father Martin Division 2 Cup at the Trinity University of Asia in Quezon City.

UAAP seasons highlights

  • UAAP Season 69: The team ended UAAP Season 69 (2006–07) in third place after failing to win their knockout match against University of Santo Tomas on September 21, 2006. They lost to the UST Growling Tigers by one point, 81–82.
  • UAAP Season 70: The team ended it Finals-appearance drought in Season 70 (2007–08), finishing 14–0 sweep in elimination rounds and winning their games by at at least 16 points. [1] The team, however, lost the best-of-three Finals series to the De La Salle Green Archers 2–0.
  • UAAP Season 72: On January 12, 2009, Lawrence Chongson replaced Dindo Pumaren as the team's head coach. the team participated in five tournaments, two of which were held abroad: the 2009 Ming Dao International Basketball Tournament held in March in Taipei, Taiwan; the Easter Showcase in Las Vegas, USA in April; the 2009 FilOil Flying V Pre-Season MVP Invitational Cup held at the FilOil Flying V Arena in San Juan; the PBL Flex Unity Cup (with the players comprising the "Cobra Energy Drink Warriors"). [4] In the semi-finals of Season 72, The team defeated the Far Eastern University (FEU) Tamaraws to earn a slot in the finals, but lost to the Ateneo Blue Eagles in the Finals in three games.

UAAP Season 85 (S.Y. 2022–23) Team Rosters

University of the East Basketball Team

UE Red Warriors roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHeightYearHigh School
F 6 Flag of the Philippines.svg Abdul Sawat6'6" (1.98m)1st–
8 Flag of the Philippines.svg Josh Alcantara–––
9 Flag of the Philippines.svg Harvey Pagsanjan–––
C 55 Flag of the Philippines.svg Gani Stevens6'8" (2.03m)1st–
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Team manager
  • Jean Michael Alabanza
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured

Red Warriors basketball team recruits class of 2020

[5]

  • Josiah Alcantara
  • Orin Catacutan
  • Clint Escamis
  • Brian Enriquez
  • Kyle Paranada
  • Migs Pascual
  • CJ Payawal
  • Gani Stevens

Notable players

Red Warriors

Coaching history

Notable coaches

Volleyball

The volleyball team won championships in Seasons 78, 79 and 80, but in Season 81 finished in 7th place.[ citation needed ]

Notable players

Lady Red Warriors

Fencing

Notable athletes

International competition

The UE Red Warriors men's basketball team represented the Philippines at the 1967 Summer Universiade in Tokyo, Japan. [6]

At the 2007 Southeast Asian Games, eleven UE athletes were medalists in their respective sports. They were part of the 620 athletes that comprised Team Philippines that competed at the 24th Southeast Asian Games in Nakhon, Ratchasima, Thailand from December 6 to 15, 2007. [7]

Number of championships

See UE Junior Warriors for UE Junior Championships

UAAP rankings

See UE Junior Warriors for UE Junior Division Rankings

Seniors Division
These are the rankings of the University in the UAAP events it is participating since 1986, the year the UAAP became an eight member-school league.

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Sports Events, UE Dawn 2006 Diamond Jubilee Edition, University of the East, 2006.
  2. ↑ Payo, Jasmine (22 March 2009). "Fisu nixes Archers' Serbia Universiade stint". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2015. The University of the East was the last basketball team to represent the Philippines in the 1967 Universiade with a lineup bannered by Robert Jaworski and Danny Florencio.
  3. ↑ "UE Warriors climb from cellar to top". Inquirer.net. Retrieved 2013-06-21.
  4. ↑ "UE Today: UE Red Warriors "Fighting, Striving, Winning". University of the East . Retrieved 2009-09-17.
  5. ↑ cite web|url=https://www.spin.ph/basketball/uaap-men/uaap-yearender-teams-that-missed-semis-make-it-up-with-prized-recruits-a2437-20201223?ref=article_next_featured
  6. ↑ Fisu nixes Archers' Serbia Universiade stint - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
  7. ↑ "UE fetes SEAG Medallists UE athletes". University of the East . Retrieved 2008-01-23.

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