I posted this photos on my blog in April 2011 of Edmund while playing for the UST Glowing Goldies basketball team but when my site crashed just two weeks after my blog went online, all the photos sadly disappeared. Buti na lang I still have the photo album. The clippings are limited but these are nevertheless very valuable to us (our family). I am excited to show this to our future grand kid / kids especially if we get blessed with a male one who loves basketball too. Eto ang lolo mo oh.
I kept some clippings of the Varsitarian and daily newspapers when we were in college but my collection got lost , palipat-lipat ng tirahan. I think nasama sa mga naitapon galing sa office namin sa Tektite.
I was able to find a few clippings. The originals are with the UST archive office.
My staff Abby helped me dig through the very old files of UST and from their microfilms.
Ricky Valero
Most of the UAAP games were held on weekends. Eh every saturday and sunday, I went home to Binangonan. During class days, I would just hear the male students congregating at the school corridors talk about the basketball games.
I was never curious and I was never interested to watch. I had 4 brothers who all played basketball. My eldest brother who graduated from UST Medicine, played for the intramurals. He was also a very good player but because of the demands of his medicine course, he quit playing. Hindi pwedeng seryosohin ang pagiging basketball player kung gusto mong maging magaling na duktor (doctor).
As his girlfriend, it also did not occur to me that girls were swooning over the players. I grew up seeing my brothers play basketball and for me. seeing Edmund play was no big deal. I was actually scared to watch because meron akong phobia. Whenever I would see my brothers miss a shot, fall, roll on the court, I couldn’t look. Kaya kay Edmund, when he invited me to go with him to Rizal Memorial Coliseum, I just couldn’t tell him Oh no, ayaw kong manood.
I didn’t even know that he was a star player. When I first went to watch, para akong probinsyana na itinapon sa gitna ng Times Square. Nay ko ang ingay-ingay ng mga banda at cheering squads. Hindi pa uso ang Go USte nuon. Ano nga nga ang isinisigaw? Nalimutan ko na yata.
When their team came out, I didn’t want to look at him. Naku po napaka payatot, takut na takot ako. Baka kako mabalya eh matumba agad. Ayun na nga, when I dared to look, he missed a shot and rolled on the floor. Sabi ko na nga ba pareho lang ng mga kuya ko.
After the first half, I developed some confidence to watch him move, run, shoot. Aba, marunong palang mag-shoot.
The actual uniforms are still with us.
We were already sweethearts when he received the recognition as UAAP Basketball Most Valuable Player. I still remember the day he received this. I was attending classes. He appeared at the door of our classroom. He came from the awarding ceremony. He quickly gave me a supot containing a jacket and this plaque. He gave them to me. Paano kaya kung hindi kami ang nagkatuluyan at kung nag-break kami eh itinapon ko ito? Kawawa naman sya.
x x x We were already sweethearts when he received the recognition as UAAP Basketball Most Valuable Player. x x x
Pardon me Annie but there is some sort of misrepresentation in that line. It should be completed to UAAP Basketball Most Valuable Player for UST or of UST.
Reading it at first, I thought my memory is failing me because I never remember Edmund to have been the MVP of the UAAP. As in of the UAAP and not just of UST.
Peace!
You are correct. He was UST’s UAAP MVP in Basketball. That was what’s in the plaque.
Great scrapbook. Maybe you can find a video from the TV station archivist if it was televised.