RTU winningest WNCAA squad

Rizal Technological University emerged the winningest squad in the 38th WNCAA sports festival while Miriam College retained its junior taekwondo crown and added another to top the event held recently at the Club 650 gym and San Beda College Alabang sports complex.

RTU kept its senior taekwondo and table tennis titles and unseated College of St. Benilde as swimming winner in the four-event tournament.

Overall, RTU had already won five titles after earlier victories in Senior B basketball and senior futsal.

The RTU jins bagged seven gold, three silver and three bronze medals while runner-up St. Scholastica’s College had a 2-2-3 tally, one gold better than third placer Lyceum’s 1-5-3.

Named senior Most Valuable Players, all from RTU, were Michelle Monterey (taekwondo), Danister Go (table tennis) and tanker Hazel Ecleo who bagged four gold medals.

In badminton, Miriam won the midget title, La Salle College Antipolo is still junior champion and CSB wrested the senior championship from RTU.

St. Stephen’s High School and St. Scho kept their midget and junior swimming crowns, respectively, while RTU got back at CSB by taking away its senior title.

Thea Mari Caluma of second runner-up Miriam bagged swimming’s special award in the midgets division after a two-gold, one-silver, one-bronze effort, while Hanna Datu of SBCA, also second runner-up, got the junior award with a three-gold and one-silver showing.

CSB placed second anew to RTU in senior table tennis while last year’s runner-up Philippine Women’s University slid to third place.

The WNCAA 38th season is being supported by adidas, Solar Sports, Petron, Molten, Mikasa, digipost, 103.5 Crossover, Goody, TeleTech, Dental First, Club Sixfifty, Speedo and Team Ventures.

The fifth National Games will be held in Pampanga on Feb. 29-March 3 while the senior cheerleading contest will coincide with the closing and turnover rites in March.