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The Ateneo Blue Eagles are sometimes called the Hail Mary Quintet by the sports press. This moniker was given to the Blue Eagles in 1926 when sports press noticed that the team would pray the Hail Mary (as the school’s patroness is the Immaculate Conception ) during game time-outs and would win by the skin of their teeth.
The Blue Eagles have had several rivalries throughout the years. Before the NCAA was founded and into the early years after its foundation (1924), Ateneo's fiercest basketball rivals were the UP Fighting Maroons (then known as the Maroon and Greens).
In 1987, nine years after the Ateneo joined the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the university went on to win its first crown in UAAP men's basketball. The Blue Eagles won a second straight title in 1988. [citation needed] In 1991, the Ateneo joined in relief operations to help victims of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo.
In the 1930s, Ateneo de Manila adopted the Blue Eagle as its symbol; the precise species varies from depiction to depiction. The Philippine Eagle ( Pithecophaga jefferyi ) is also the national bird of the Philippines.
The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines.The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila University, [a] De La Salle University (DLSU), Far Eastern University (FEU), National University (NU), University of the East (UE), University of the ...
The Ateneo Blue Eagles men's volleyball program is the men's collegiate varsity volleyball team of the Ateneo de Manila University. The team competes in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).
The Ateneo de Manila Junior High School (AJHS) provides middle school education and was founded in 2013 to comply with the Department of Education K-12 system. [41] The Ateneo de Manila Senior High School (ASHS) offers the eleventh and twelfth grades since 2013, and became co-educational in 2016. [42]
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