CEBU CITY, Philippines — The MVP Sports activities Basis, led by sports activities patron Manny V. Pangilinan, has clarified its function within the Ateneo Blue Eagles males’s basketball program, stressing that its involvement is proscribed to monetary assist amid experiences linking it to the crew’s inner administration.
In a press release launched on Tuesday, June 16, MVP Sports activities Basis president Al Panlilio mentioned the group neither owns nor manages the Blue Eagles program, regardless of earlier experiences noting that former crew supervisor Epok Quimpo beforehand labored for Sensible Communications.
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The clarification comes a few week after the deaths of Ateneo gamers Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili, who drowned in Dipaculao, Aurora, on June 8.
“The MVP Sports activities Basis (“MVPSF”) has lengthy supported the Ateneo Males’s Basketball Staff, together with many different collegiate and nationwide sports activities campaigns, applications, and athletes. As with all of the sports activities applications we assist, the MVPSF’s function is proscribed to offering funding. The muse doesn’t personal or handle the Ateneo Males’s Basketball Staff. It doesn’t run the crew’s applications or oversee athlete administration, teaching, recruitment, or participant growth,” the assertion learn.
The muse additionally addressed Quimpo’s involvement with the crew, noting that whereas he’s an worker of Sensible Communications, his function with Ateneo was in a private capability.
“Mr. Epok Quimpo is an worker of Sensible Communications. Nevertheless, we perceive that he has served the Ateneo Males’s Basketball Staff in his private capability over the previous decade—as an Ateneo alumnus and a former member of the Ateneo Males’s Basketball Staff—after being invited by Ateneo to function crew supervisor. In that engagement, he has all the time been below the authority and route of the College and its officers,” it added.
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Quimpo, together with Ateneo head coach Tab Baldwin, not too long ago resigned from his put up following the controversy surrounding the deaths of the 2 gamers.
“The MVP Sports activities Basis stands by all it has supplied and supplied for the event of Filipino athletes. We stand with all Filipinos not solely in mourning the deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia, but in addition in working to uncover the reality behind this tragedy, reaching out to their households, and affirming our persevering with mission to make use of sports activities as a platform for Filipinos to attain excellence and pursue their desires,” the assertion concluded.
The MVP Sports activities Basis has lengthy been a significant supporter of Philippine sports activities, backing applications such because the San Beda Crimson Lions, Gilas Pilipinas, and a number of other Nationwide Sports activities Associations in boxing, weightlifting, golf, biking, soccer, and taekwondo.
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