{"id":66590,"date":"2015-12-08T04:02:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66590"},"modified":"2015-12-08T04:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:05:20","slug":"ateneo-announces-tab-baldwin-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/08\/ateneo-announces-tab-baldwin-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Ateneo announced Tab Baldwin as new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66591\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66591\" style=\"width: 730px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/O9UEMx6jZ06k0qwNXLimQg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66591 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/O9UEMx6jZ06k0qwNXLimQg.jpg\" alt=\"Official head coach of Ateneo Blue Eagles for UAAP Season 79 men's basketball team, and Smart Gilas coach Tab Baldwin (Photo taken from FIBA.com)\" width=\"730\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/O9UEMx6jZ06k0qwNXLimQg.jpg 730w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/O9UEMx6jZ06k0qwNXLimQg-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Official head coach of Ateneo Blue Eagles for UAAP Season 79 men&#8217;s basketball team, and Smart Gilas coach Tab Baldwin (Photo taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.com\/news\/tab-baldwin-hits-the-ground-running-in-the-philippines\">FIBA.com<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MANILA &#8211; Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) officially announced that Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tab Baldwin as the new head coach of the Blue Eagles replacing Bo Perasol who coached Ateneo from 2013-2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Anthony \u201cTab\u201d Baldwin as Head Coach of our Men\u2019s basketball team,\u201d said ADMU President Jose Ramon T. Villain SJ, on his memo posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ateneo.edu\/presidents-memo-new-blue-eagles-coach\">Ateneo\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMany of you may know Coach Tab because of his great success with our Gilas Team which won the silver medal in the FIBA Asia tourney last October. Coach Tab is a multi-titled mentor who has extensive coaching experience internationally, having coached the national teams of Jordan, New Zealand, and Lebanon,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the memo posted, Villarin also thanked Manny V. Pangilinan for bringing Tab Baldwin to Ateneo, and for his support, guidance, leadership, and constant care for the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOn behalf of the Ateneo de Manila, I would like to thank Coach Bo Perasol for leading our team these last three years. We remain truly grateful to him for all that he has done for us and we wish him all the best,\u201d Villarin added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The memo also stated that the team\u2019s preparation for the 79th season of University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) will start this December and they are looking forward for the championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Though Blue Eagles\u2019 Kiefer Ravena, Von Pessumal, Ponzo Gotladera, and Gwyne Capacio bid farewell, the team is confident enough to have a competitive team next season as Arvin Tolentino, Aaron Black, Adrian Wong, and the Nieto twins return to the team lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211; Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) officially announced that Gilas Pilipinas head coach Tab Baldwin as the new head &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":66591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-66590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}