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| School | De La Salle University-Manila |
| League | UAAP |
| Joined | Member since 1986 (Founding member of the NCAA in 1924-Member from 1924 to 1980-81) |
| Location | Taft Avenue, Malate, Manila (Srs.) Ayala Alabang Village, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila (Jrs.) |
| Team colors | Green and White |
| Women's team | Lady Archers |
| Juniors' team | Junior Archers |
Seniors' general championships | |
Juniors' general championships | |
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The De La Salle Green Archers (also La Salle Green Archers) is the varsity team of De La Salle University-Manila in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines and in other leagues.
Their main rival was the Letran Knights during the Green Archers' NCAA days (1924-1980)[citation needed] and the Ateneo Blue Eagles, FEU Tamaraws and the UST Growling Tigers in the UAAP (from 1986 to present).[citation needed]
La Salle was a founding member of the NCAA in 1924, together with Ateneo, San Beda, Letran, National, UP and UST. Its founding representative in 1924 was Brother John Lyman FSC (a De La Salle Sports Hall of Fame Awardee).
La Salle won the first ever NCAA Junior Basketball Title in the inaugural 1924-25 season. It won its first ever NCAA Senior Basketball Title in the 1939-40 season.
In 1986, La Salle joined the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).
Currently, aside from the UAAP, the Green Archers also participate in off-season collegiate invitational leagues such as the Nike Summer League, the Fil-Oil Homegrown Post-UAAP and Summer Leagues, the Biennial Inter-La Salle League and the Home and Away League. In December 2006, the Green Archers won the Fil-Oil Homegrown Invitational League and in June 2007, it also won the Nike Summer Invitational League, winning over the FEU Tamaraws in the finals, and also the Fil-Oil Summer Invitational League, winning over the then 2006 NCAA Champions-San Beda Red Lions in the finals.
The De La Salle Green Archers are the defending UAAP Senior Basketball Champions.
NCAA (1924-1980) and UAAP (1986 to present) basketball
The De La Salle Green Archers had moderate success in basketball since joining the NCAA in 1924, winning five senior basketball titles in the said league in 1939, 1947, 1956, 1971 and 1974. The NCAA held no annual tournaments during the Japanese Occupation years and the year following the Liberation of Manila from 1942 up to 1946.
The Green Archers' Junior team while in the NCAA was the La Salle Greenies, the varsity of the defunct De La Salle High School then after the High School was dissolved, used by La Salle Greenies, the varsity team of La Salle Green Hills, which was the Juniors team of the Green Archers from 1968-1981. La Salle Green Hills won 8 General Championships with the Green Archers.
La Salle (both University and Green Hills) withdrew from the NCAA, and the Green Archers (without the Greenies) joined the UAAP after six years of inactivity in intercollegiate athletics, the Greenies would later return to the NCAA after 17 years as the Juniors of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. See related story :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_%28Philippines%29
The De La Salle Greenies won the very first NCAA Junior Basketball Title in the inaugural 1924-25 season. It won its last NCAA Junior Basketball Title in the 1955-56 NCAA season led by its star player-Kurt Bachmann. Bachmann later led the Green Archers in the NCAA Seniors Division to get the seniors basketball title in the 1956-57 NCAA season. In 2005, the De La Salle-Zobel won it's first UAAP championship and 3rd overall. The La Salle Greenies came back to the NCAA as the Juniors counterparts of the CSB Blazers.
In 1986, La Salle joined the UAAP and has won seven basketball titles in its 20-year participation in the league. In 1989, La Salle won its very first UAAP senior basketball title and made it back-to-back in 1990. From 1998-2001, La Salle won four straight UAAP senior basketball titles after four straight runner-up finishes the previous years. They regained the title in 2007 via a two-game sweep of the UE Red Warriors, which ended the two-round classification phase winning all 14 games to reach the finals, only to fall by a more experienced Archers team fresh from a one-year suspension from a year ago.
La Salle has yet to win a General Championship in the UAAP.
In 1991 UAAP Finals La Salle's final game win was protested by the FEU after a Green Archer was left on the playing court by the UAAP Table Officials for about 10 seconds, after being disqualified for incurring 5 personal fouls. The UAAP Board upheld the protest which was made by FEU after the championship match ended and then ordered the replay of the already won championship match. La Salle did not show up, as a metter of principle claiming to have won legitimately since the error was made by the official UAAP Table officials and not that of the De La Salle Team Coaching staff, and FEU was awarded the 1991 trophy.[citation needed]
ICTSI Archers
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On October 10 2001, the Green Archers officially made their PBL debut as its newest team under the banner of ICTSI La Salle. Despite having most of its players from the collegiate team in the lineup, ICTSI recruited players from other collegiate squads, namely James Yap of UE and Bernzon Franco of PCU. The team was handled by Archers head coach Franz Pumaren with assistants Gee Abanilla and Jack Santiago.
ICTSI was able to keep up with other PBL power houses in Blu, John O, and Ateneo Pioneers to name a few. After eliminating the Ateneo Pioneers in the semifinals, the Archers lost to the much more experienced John O team in the finals.
In its second conference, ICTSI acquired a new go to guys in Green Archers Mac Cardona and Joseph Yeo. Although they were struggling a little bit, they still managed to make it to the cross over round against the LBC Batangas Blades who eventually eliminated them.
After a short leave of absence in the PBL Unity Cup, ICTSI made its return in the 2005 conference wherein they made it to the quarterfinals only to be eliminated by the Welcoat Paintmasters.
2005 Player ineligibility scandal
On October 10 2005, the University officially revealed to the newspapers in an official De La Salle press release that a then current La Salle player (later identified as second-string back-up center-Mark Benitez) was discovered by the university itself to be ineligible to continue to study in the university and therefore play for it in the UAAP. The player was unilaterally discovered by the university to have submitted, as part of La Salle's requirements for admission as a college freshman school year 2003-2004, a falsified Department of Education Philippine Educational Placement Test Certificate of Rating (PEPTCR, a government-issued replacement for a regular high school diploma). In November 2005 after concluding the university's official internal investigation and then submitting its official report to the UAAP Board, the University returned its 2004 UAAP Senior Basketball championship and 2005 runner-up trophies.
On October 18 2005, 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 DepEd submitted its findings to La Salle, that a second Green Archer, second-string guard Tim Gatchalian, who was no longer even a member of the Green Archers during the 2005-2006 UAAP season but played in the previous 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 seasons, also used spurious documents to enter college, and hence, also rendering himself ineligible to continue to study in the university and play in the UAAP. La Salle later both expelled Benitez and Gatchalian and cancelled all their previously earned college credits after due official investigation.
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 (in the senior, junior and womens divisions) for the succeeding 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.
Current roster
A team in the UAAP is composed of sixteen players. All sixteen listed players may be fielded in a single game. Also, each team is given a maximum limit of two foreign players without Filipino roots to join its squad. This season, those two players from the team are Marko Batricevic from Serbia, and Ferdinand from Indonesia.
- Head Coach:
- Franz Pumaren
- Franz Pumaren
- Assistant Coaches:
- Jack Santiago
- Tonichi Yturri
- Tyrone Bautista
- Cholo Villanueva
- Jack Santiago
- Statistician/Team Official
- Dendu Anareta
- Dendu Anareta
- Conditioning Coach:
- Dan Rose
- Dan Rose
- Physical Therapists:
- Rommel de los Reyes
- Mike Sunga
- Rommel de los Reyes
- Courtside Reporter:
- Sharon Yu
- Sharon Yu
| # | Position | Country | Last Name | First Name | Nick Name/Alias | Eligibility | Status |
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| 7 | PG | 
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Atkins | Simon | 2nd year | ||
| 18 | PG/SG |
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Bagatsing | Hyram | 1st Year | Rookie | |
| 17 | SG/SF |
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Barua | Peejay | 3rd year | ||
| 20 | C | 
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Batricevic | Marko | 2nd year | Foreigner | |
| 6 | PG/SG |
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Casio | Joseph Evans | Jvee / J-Shock | 5th year | Captain |
| 22 | PG |
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Chandumal | Manoj Kumar | 1st year | Rookie | |
| 15 | C | 
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Ferdinand | 2nd year | Walang kwentang player to ulol kasi | ||
| 21 | PG/SG |
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Lee | Rejan | 2nd year | ||
| 8 | SG/SF |
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Malabes | Bader Abdulla | 2nd year | ||
| 19 | SF/PF |
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Mangahas | James Phillip | The Snake | 3rd year | |
| 10 | PF/C |
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Maierhofer | Paul Rico | The Kite / Rico Mambo | 4th year | Co-captain |
| 16 | PF |
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Mendoza | Mark Jovet | 1st year | Rookie | |
| 12 | PG |
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Revilla | Luis Alfonso | LA | 1st Year | Rookie |
| 5 | PF/C |
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Villanueva | Alvin Joseph | Maui | 1st year | Rookie |
| 11 | C |
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Walsham | Arthur Peter | PJ | 4th year | Co-captain |
| 9 | SG/SF |
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Webb | David Joshua | Spider Webb | 1st year | Rookie |
Current depth chart
| Position | Starter | 2nd Stringer | 3rd Stringer | Inactive / 4th Stringer |
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| C | ABUGAN | E. CORNEJO | K. ARNES | M. BATRICEVIC 
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| PF | R. VERIÑA | D. LIM | K. SAN RAMON | |
| SF | E. MIRA | A. DEL MUNDO | J. WEBB | |
| SG | A. UZARAGA | B. CUSTODIO | K. PERIDO | |
| PG | S. ATKINS | A. ALCANTARA | F. FONTANILLA |
Notable De La Salle Green Archers
- Kurt Bachmann
- Enrique "Totit" Valles
- Leo Prieto
- Carlos J. Valdes
- Manolet Araneta
- Hever "Nene" Bascon
- Eddie Decena
- Dominador Sevillano
- Augusto Fermin
- Eddie Sharuff
- Rene Wassmer
- Antonio Lara
- Ramoncito Campos
- Valentin "Tito" Eduque
- Martin Urra Sr.
- Guillermo Manotoc
- Tommy Manotoc
- Jose Mari Valles
- Carlos Valles
- Carlos "Bobong" Velez
- Joaquin "Joaqui" Trillo
- Jose Miguel "Mike" Bilbao
- Fritz Sola
- Lim Eng Beng
- Armando "Doy" Escober
- Julian "Julie" Lim
- Pitloy Mirasol
- Dindo Guevarra
- Alex Malixi
- Virgil Villavicencio
- Rey Pages
- Amadeo "Titong" Sagarbarria
- Henry Brodett
- Billy Johnston
- Edward Dizon
- Gregorio Rastrullo
- Dennis Mendoza
- Gabby Liwag
- Gregory Bichara
- Franz Pumaren
- Tonichi Yturri
- Dindo Pumaren
- Joel Uichico
- Joseph "Jong" Uichico
- Joseller "Yeng ' Guiao
- Zandro "Jun" Limpot
- Teddy Monasterio
- Boy Manguera
- Alex Marquez
- John R. "Bobot" Murao
- Raffa Dinglasan
- Joey Santamaria
- Richard Del Rosario
- Alfie Almario
- Joey Guanio
- Richard "Dickie" Bachmann
- Adriano "Addy" Papa, Jr. II
- Eddie Viaplana
- Jonas Mariano
- Arnel Guste
- Noli Locsin
- Johnedel Cardel
- Dwight Lago
- Elmer Lago
- Tony Boy Espinosa
- Mark Clemence Telan
- Allen Glenn Patrimonio
- Luigi Trillo
- Jason Webb
- Tyrone Bautista
- Maui Roca
- Chris Tan
- Dino Aldeguer
- Dominic Uy
- Cali John Orfrecio
- Francis Zamora
- Don Carlos Allado
- Mon Jose
- Alvin Castro
- Willy Wilson
- Mac Cuan
- Ren-Ren Ritualo
- Mike Cortez
- BJ Manalo
- Mark Cardona
- Joseph Yeo
- Jerwin Gaco
- Michael Gavino
- Santiago "Junjun" Cabatu
- Ryan Araña
- Richard Del Rosario
- Aldo Perez
- Adonis Sta. Maria
- Manny Ramos
- Carlos Sharma
- JR Aquino
- TY Tang
- Pocholo Villanueva
- JV Casio
- Rico Maierhofer
- James Mangahas
- Peejay Barua
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 Bachman (played in 4-NCAA seasons for the Green Archers:1956,1957,1958&1959)
Volleyball
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 and they are also the reigning three-time champions in the school-based commercial league Shakey's V-League.
Notable players
- Maureen Penetrante
- Manilla Santos
- Desiree Hernandez
- Relea Ferina "Chie" Saet
- Sharmaine Miles Peñano
- Michelle Datuin
- Jacqueline Alarca
- Concepcion Legaspi
- Ivy Remulla
- Carla Llaguno
Football
Men's Football
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The DLSU men's football team captured its first ever solo UAAP championship via a rare sweep in 1994-95. The team was bannered by national team mainstay and league MVP Tuteng Marasigan, Jay Pascual, Tats Ramos, Panky Abijay, Carlo Blanco, Teo Ocampo, JM Pons, Javi Manticon, Dennis Villanueva, rookie standouts Christian Lozano, and Albe Aparilla, and coached by Hans Smit.
As it was in the 1990-91 season, DLSU was declared joint UAAP champions with UST after a fight broke loose during the final minutes of the game with DLSU leading 2-1, both goals scored by Cocoy Rojas. This team was bannered by veterans Gerard Araw, Mon Sandejas, Sammy Mubarak, Paolo Relucio, Carlo Manalo, Tuteng Marasigan together with the most talented rookie class headed by Tats Ramos, Cocoy Rojas, Javi Legarda, and Rufino Gutierrez.
In the 1993-1994 season, La Salle lost to UST 4-0 in the championship game but with most of the awards were garnered by the Green Archer led by their rookie sensation, Panky Abijay who was voted as the Best Scorer for that season. Scoring 17 goals in 10 games followed by Tats Ramos as the Best Goalie and Tuteng Marasigan as the Best Midfielder.
In 1995-96 UAAP season, the team however failed to defend its championship losing to arch-rival Ateneo de Manila University in a heartbreaking loss in the finals. Ateneo entered the finals with a twice to beat advantage by topping the eliminations round. La Salle took game 1 of the finals series 2-1 to arrange the final showdown, but lost 2-1 to the Vince Santos powered Ateneo team.
The following year, Coach Hans revamped the DLSU lineup and enhanced the team with several rookies and sophomores. The team included rookies William Paradies, Torto Canga, Jon Chua, Joey Mapa, Dave Javellana, Jun Sola, Peter Amores and Dodee Molina to complement holdovers Alvin Ocampo, Christian Lozano, Norman Azarcon, JM Pons, Owens Sun, Albe Aparilla, Byron Rempillo, Theo Zaragoza and LJ Villanueva. The team topped the eliminations round and this time had the twice to beat advantage in the re-match with Ateneo in the Finals. DLSU however did not allow the finals to reach a 2nd game and re-captured the 1996-97 crown via a 2-1 victory, courtesy of goals by midfielders Norman Azarcon and Albe Aparilla.
With a near intact line-up and key additions like the comebacking Francis Feliciano and Dennis Villanueva to anchor the defense and rookie goal keeper Ted Guinto DLSU successfully defending its crown in 1997-98 and captured back-to-back championships. This year DLSU again took the twice to beat advantage leading into the finals series, however Ateneo took game 1 via a 2-1 victory. DLSU however regrouped in time for the deciding match. Ateneo took the lead early via a header from Ramon Espejo in the first half and kept the 1-0 lead at halftime. The second half was a completely different story, with DLSU unleashing its true scoring form, taking 5 straight goals in the second half to take the title once again via a 5-1 hammering of its archrival. Alvin Ocampo and Christian Lozano took co-MVP honors.
PRADA Players
- Migo Malinao
- Ten Valdez
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.
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 | 2nd |
| 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 | 1st | Unknown |
| 2000-2001 | 1st | 4th | 4th |
| 2001-2002 | 1st | 4th | 6th |
| 2002-2003 | 2nd | 3rd | 6th |
| 2003-2004 | 1st | 6th | |
| 2004-2005 | 1st | 1st | 5th |
| 2005-2006 | 2nd | 1st | 2nd |
| 2006-2007 | Suspended | ||
| 2007-2008 | 1st | 7th | 6th |
Notes:
- Due to the player ineligibility scandal, DLSU's 4th, 1st and 2nd finish respectively from 2003-2005, were all forfeited.