UEP to host 2011 SCUAA
meet
By TERESITA B. CARDENAS, PIA Catarman
January
23, 2011
CATARMAN, Northern
Samar – The University of Eastern Philippines will host the
forthcoming State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association (SCUAA)
meet on January 28-31, 2011. This was learned from Mrs. Romula A.
Obleopas, the media relations officer of the university.
Obleopas said that the
university is now ready to host the event and is taking measures to
ensure safety of the participants and a successful athletic event.
Their athletes undergone rigid training and is now ready for the
competition, she added.
SCUAA region 8 is
composed of the following: the Eastern Samar State University (ESSU
Falcons), Eastern Visayas State University (EVSU Hawks), Leyte Normal
University (LNU Normalities), Naval State University (NSU Pioneers),
Palompon Institute of Technology (PIT Mariners), Samar State College
of Agriculture and Forestry (SSCAF Forestmen), Samar State University
(SSU Webmasters), Southern Leyte State University (SSU Flamingos),
Northwest Samar State University (NWSSU Clippers), University of
Eastern Philippines (UEP Dolphins) and Visayas State Colleges (VSU).
The State Colleges and
Universities Athletic Association (SCUAA) is one of the
inter-collegiate sports association in the Philippines closely related
to UAAP, the union of six major state colleges and universities in
Metro Manila.
The organization was
established as the State Colleges Athletics Association (SCAA) in 1953
encompassing the Philippine Normal College (now Philippine Normal
University of PNU), Central Luzon Agricultural College (now Central
Luzon State University of (CLSU), and the Philippine College of
Commerce (now Polytechnic University of the Philippines or PUP), and
Rizal technological Colleges (now
Rizal Technological
University or RTU). SCAA saw itself transformed into SCUAA in the
1970s when PCC and the Philippine College of Arts and Trades (now
Technological University
of the Philippines or TUP) a member school since 1959, converted into
a university.
Despite many years
of challenges in the forefront, SCUAA was able to gain grounds in
various regions in the country through the creation of regional or
satellite SCUAA, hence the establishment of a National SCUAA in the
mid-1980s.
