Charo Soriano (actress)
Maria Rosario "Charo" Soriano (born October 14, 1985) is a Filipino volleyball player, coach, and politician. Soriano is one of the founders of Beach Volleyball Republic, an outdoor volleyball tournament, and a board member of the Philippine National Volleyball Federation. She also serves as a city councilor of Tuguegarao since 2022. Volleyball career During her collegiate playing career for the Ateneo Lady Eagles, she played indoor and beach volleyball. After playing With the Ateneo Lady Eagles from 2003 to 2008, she worked as assistant coach for this team from 2012 to 2014. Soriano won with this team the Shakey's V-League Season 8, 1st Conference as head coach. In 2013, she played for the Smart Maynilad Net Spikers in the Shakey's V-League Soriano joined PLDT Home Ultera Ultra Fast Hitters from the Shakey's V-League, for the 2014 Shakey's V-League 11th Season Open Conference and the 2015 Shakey's V-League 12th Season Reinforced Open Conference. In beach volleyball, Soriano ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Filipinos
Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups, all typically speaking either Filipino, English and/or other Philippine languages. Currently, there are more than 185 ethnolinguistic groups in the Philippines; each with its own language, identity, culture and history. Names The name ''Filipino'', as a demonym, was derived from the term ''Las Islas Filipinas'' ("the Philippine Islands"), the name given to the archipelago in 1543 by the Spanish explorer and Dominican priest Ruy López de Villalobos, in honor of Philip II of Spain (Spanish: ''Felipe II''). During the Spanish colonial period, natives of the Philippine islands were usually known by the generic terms ''indio'' (" Indian") or ''indigenta'' ("indigents"). However, during the early Spanish colonial period the term ''Filipinos'' or ''Philipinos'' was sometimes used by Spanish writ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexa Micek
Alexa Micek (born October 28, 1991) is a Filipino American volleyball athlete who played for Petron Blaze Spikers in the Philippine Super Liga and Kia Forte in the Shakey's V-League. Personal life She graduated from North Carolina State University, where she took up civil engineering for three seasons. She is the daughter of Matt Micek. Career Micek studied at Oak Park High School, being twice named first team All Tri-Valley League and honored as team Most Valuable Player in 2007 and 2008. She went to Los Angeles Pierce College where she led the Western Conference in digs with 606. She played the 2015 Spike For Peace Women’s International Beach Volleyball and the Beach Volleyball Republic Christmas Open at the SM Sands by the Bay, December 19–20, 2015, both with Charo Soriano. She was the 2015 sixth overall and first round draft pick of the Petron Blaze Spikers in the Philippine Super Liga. Micek played with Petron Sprint 4T in the 2015 PSL Beach Volleyball Challenge C ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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University Athletic Association Of The Philippines Volleyball Players
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Ateneo De Manila University Alumni
Ateneo may refer to: Cultural institutions * Ateneo de la Juventud, a society of Mexican writers, philosophers and intellectuals * Ateneo de Madrid, a private cultural institution located in the capital of Spain * Ateneo de Ponce, a nonprofit, civic, organization in Ponce, Puerto Rico * Ateneo Puertorriqueño, one of Puerto Rico's chief cultural institutions * Ateneo de Sevilla, a cultural, scientific, literary, and artistic association in Seville, Spain * Ateneo Veneto, an institution for science, literature, and arts in Venice, Italy Schools named Ateneo run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines Teaching and research universities * Ateneo de Davao University * Ateneo de Manila University * Ateneo de Naga University * Ateneo de Zamboanga University * Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan Non-tertiary Schools * Sacred Heart School – Ateneo de Cebu * Ateneo de Iloilo - Santa Maria Catholic School Defunct institutions * Ateneo de San Pablo * Ateneo de Tuguegar ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Living People
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Filipino Women's Volleyball Players
Filipino may refer to: * Something from or related to the Philippines ** Filipino language, standardized variety of 'Tagalog', the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines. ** Filipinos, people who are citizens of the Philippines or are of Filipino descent. Other uses * Filipinos (snack food), branded cookies manufactured in Europe See also * * * Filipinas (other) Filipinas may refer to: * ''Filipinas, letra para la marcha nacional'', the Spanish poem by José Palma that eventually became the Filipino national anthem. * The original Spanish name, and also used in different Philippines languages including F ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Perlas Spikers
The Perlas Spikers, also previously known as the BanKo Perlas Spikers, are a professional women's volleyball team playing in the Premier Volleyball League. The team is owned by Beach Volleyball Republic. History The team debuted in the 2017 season of the Premier Volleyball League (PVL). On January 12, 2022, the team announced it was taking a leave of absence from the 2022 PVL Open Conference due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Name changes * Perlas Spikers ( 2017 Reinforced Conference, 2021 Open Conference) * BanKo Perlas Spikers ( 2017 Open Conference – 2019 Open Conference) Current roster Coaching staff * Head coach:Reynaldo Diaz Jr. * Assistant coach:Manolo Refugia Jr. Michelle Carolino Team staff * Team manager:Rye Sordan * Team utility: Medical staff * Team physician: * Physical therapist:Marilou Regidor Previous roster Coaching staff * Head coach:Reynaldo Diaz Jr. * Assistant coach:Manolo Refugia Jr. Michelle Carolino Team staff * Team manager:Rye S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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V-League 5th Season 1st Conference
The V-League 5th Season 1st Conference is a tournament of the Shakey's V-League. The tournament began on March 30, 2008 and ended on May 30, 2008 at The Arena in the city of San Juan. Joining are NCR teams Ateneo de Manila University, Adamson University, College of Saint Benilde, Far Eastern University, Lyceum of the Philippines University, San Sebastian College - Recoletos, and Visayas teams University of Saint La Salle and University of San Jose - Recoletos Adamson University finally broke its runner-up "curse" by winning over Ateneo de Manila University in two games to none in the finals series. This makes them the third champion team, alongside University of Santo Tomas The University of Santo Tomas (also known as UST and officially as the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila) is a private, Catholic research university in Manila, Philippines. Founded on April 28, 1611, by Spanish friar Migue ... and De La Salle University. Tournament Format *Double ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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V-League 4th Season 2nd Conference
The V-League 4th Season 2nd Conference is a tournament of the Shakey's V-League. The tournament began last October 14, 2007 at The Arena in San Juan. It ended last December 4, 2007 with the University of Santo Tomas Tigresses winning yet again against the first runner-up team from the 1st conference San Sebastian College - Recoletos Lady Stags in a dramatic 5-set game 3 finals match. These resulted in a back-to-back championship winning streak for the UST Tigresses as they are the defending champions from the 1st conference. Tournament format *Single Round Robin Tournament *Top five teams will compete in the semi-finals *Top two teams with the best record after the single-round robin semi-finals will advance to the finals **If a team won 3 out of 4 games in the semifinals, they will have a chance for a playoff berth against the second seed team for the finals *Best of Three Championship series **If the battle for the gold ended in two games only, the battle for the bronze will be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Smart-Maynilad Net Spikers
The Smart-Maynilad Net Spikers was a professional women's volleyball club playing in the Shakey's V-League. The team is owned by Smart Communications and Maynilad Water Services Maynilad Water Services, Inc., better known as Maynilad, is the water and wastewater services provider of cities and municipalities that form the West Zone of the Greater Manila Area in the Philippines. It is an agent and contractor of the Metro .... Current roster Coaching staff * Head Coach: **Roger Gorayeb Honors Team Individual References {{reflist Volleyball clubs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2022 Philippine Local Election
Local elections in the Philippines were held on May 13, 2019. This was conducted together with the 2019 general election for national positions. All elected positions above the barangay (village) level were disputed. The following positions were disputed: * 81 provincial governorships and vice-governorships * 780 Provincial Board (Sangguniang Panlalawigan) members * 1,634 mayorships and vice mayorships * 13,544 city and municipal councilors (Sangguniang Panlungsod and Sangguniang Bayan) The elective positions in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) were not decided on this day. The first elections for BARMM will be done after the 2020 Philippine census is published. The elective positions in the barangays were also not decided on this day. These were supposed to be held in October 2016, but were postponed to October 2017, then again to May 2018. Electoral system Every local government unit, be it a province, city, municipality or a barangay elects a chi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |