UAAP back with a full calendar on Oct. 1

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THE UAAP is set to kick off its 85th season on Oct. 1 with a full calendar and will no longer be held under a bubble set-up.

This was stressed by to Fr. Aldrin Suan, CM, of season host Adamson University and a member of the league’s Board of Managing Directors.

“Opening will be on Oct. 1. All sports of the pre-pandemic (are set in the calendar of events),” Suan told Malaya-Business Insight yesterday.

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“It will be a regular set-up with health protocols to be finalized,” he added.

Erring on the side of caution due to the health risks and uncertainties posed by the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, the UAAP 84th season was staged in a bubble.

Centerpiece events such as basketball, volleyball, and cheerdance were held last season, along with 3×3 basketball, beach volleyball, taekwondo, and chess.

The league called off its 83rd season two years ago, marking the first time the UAAP canceled a season since World War II from 1941 to 1946.

The league also did not finish the remainder of the 82nd season in April 2020 at the start of the government-imposed lockdown to stem the spread of the lethal pulmonary disease.

Among the sports that were scrapped in the 82nd season were the much-awaited women’s volleyball tourney, football, baseball, softball, athletics, lawn tennis, and 3í—3 basketball.

University of Santo Tomas emerged as general champion last season, bagging its fifth-straight crown and 45th overall in the collegiate division.

It was a close battle as the Growling Tigers tallied 84 points in the league’s shortened calendar with just eight events, excluding the cheerdance competition which is not included in the computation.

National University wound up second, falling short by three points. The Bulldogs did not field a team to the men’s chess event.

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