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DLSZ TANKERS SEIZE SILVER IN THE 78TH UAAP SWIMMING

The boys and girls of the De La Salle Zobel Junior Green Tankers won first runner-up in the 78th Swimming Competition held last October 22-25, 2015 at the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila. Over the four-day competition, the team took home a haul 17 golds, 7 silver and 6 bronze medals in the various events.
Sacho Ilustre (DLSZ 2018) and Nicole Pamintuan (DLSZ 2019) were awarded Most Valuable Players last Sunday, October 25, MVP Pamintuan celebrated her day by shining glory gold for the La Salle Team in the Girls’ Division; accomplishing a rare UAAP feat: winning 7 golds in 7 events, and breaking all 7 UAAP records in the 50m, 100m, 200m & 400m freestyle, and 50m, 100m & 200m backstroke events.
MVP Sacho Ilustre bagged a gold in the 800-meter freestyle. According to DLSZ Swim Team Manager Lawrence Sahagun, Ilustre only failed to break the record in said event because the young swimmer was sick that day. But by the next day until the end of the 4-day competition he was in back in fighting form to grab more gold and break all the records in the 100m, 200m, 400m, 1500m freestyle, and the 100m & 200m butterfly.
Aside from the records broken by Ilustre and Pamintuan, UAAP rookie Seth Martin (DLSZ 2021) broke the Junior National Record in the 100m backstroke, previously held unbroken for 17 years by Evan Grabador, the present swim team coach of DLSU.
Contributing to the runner-up win for DLSZ were our strong swimmers in individual events led by Yuri Ilustre (DLSZ 2018) who bagged a gold for 200m breast, a silver for 400m medley, and 2 bronze for 200m medley & 100m breast; Milcah Mina (DLSZ 2020) hauled 3 silvers for 50m, 100m & 200m breast stroke; Samantha Borlain (DLSZ 2020) with a silver and bronze for 800m & 400m freestyle respectively; and Franco Dela Rosa (DLSZ 2020) who took home a bronze for 50m freestyle.
The DLSZ Green Tankers also shown brightly in the crowd-favorite relay events. Jana Laurian (DLSZ 2018), Chrystelle Reyes (DLSZ 2021), Kara Mendoza (DLSZ 2020) and Christiana Verzo (DLSZ 2016) won gold in the 4×100 freestyle. Juliana Burgos (DLSZ 2019), Chrystelle Reyes, Bea Ylen (DLSZ 2016) & Jana Laurian took another gold for the 4x50m relay.
Two silver medals were grabbed in the Girls’ 4x50m and Boys’ 4x100m relays by the teams of Julia Burgos (DLSZ 2019), Christiana Verzo, Diana Ampil (DLSZ 2016), Chrystelle Reyes, Fernando Trinidad (DLSZ 2016), Keith San Juan (DLSZ 2016), Liam Tangan (DLSZ 2017) and Matthew Hernandez (DLSZ 2016).
Finally, two bronze medals for the Girls’ 4x200m relay and Boys’ 4x50m relay were swept by the teams of Kayleen Keh (DLSZ 2021), Kara Mendoza, Jana Laurian, Christiana Verzo, Fernando Trinidad, Jacob Ramos (DLSZ 2018) and Nicolas Martin (DLSZ 2019); bringing the total medal count at 30 medals for De La Salle Zobel.
The DLSZ Tankers
Written by: Mr. Dunn Lawrence Sahagun (DLSZ 1990)

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