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Burdened with ever-growing expectations, fast-spreading recruitment, and enhancing competitors, the NU Pep Squad stays steadfast in rising its legend as one of many best UAAP cheerdance packages of all time
MANILA, Philippines – In only a decade’s span, the NU Pep Squad has risen as one of many UAAP’s best cheerdance packages of all time, following a convincing Season 87 championship coup on Sunday, December 1, to tie longtime leaders UST and UP with eight crowns every.
To each the educated and untrained eyes, the Jhocson-based gymnasts put out a masterful six-minute stunting extravaganza, crammed with eye-catching tumbles, tosses, distinctive pyramids, and an air of trademark snappiness and risk-taking to match their wildly colourful outer house theme.
Even earlier than the agonizing, ad-filled, hour-long wait to disclose the Cheerdance Competitors (CDC) outcomes, a majority of the 19,121 followers in attendance on the Mall of Asia Enviornment had been left with an informed hunch that it was NU’s time to shine once more on the high.
Virtually everybody knew it might be NU, besides NU itself.
Apparently tortured by their very own lofty requirements, second-year head coach Gabby Bajacan and the remainder of his world-class wards didn’t need to imagine they’d the title within the bag — and by a statistical lengthy shot at that — till their crew was formally declared the champion by the competitors host.
“Really, I haven’t seen the scoresheet. Promise, we actually didn’t anticipate it. We had been so scared to go on the market [for the awarding],” he stated in Filipino. “It’s very exhausting with the group on condition that although we’re not champions, there’s nonetheless plenty of strain on us to provide you guys a present.”
“I don’t know, I suppose it’s now part of the NU Pep Squad to push everybody’s limits simply so we are able to do what we actually need, however we by no means really feel sufficient. We all the time really feel we come up quick. We by no means felt we had been championship-caliber, even after the efficiency we did. I believe that’s the burden we’ve got to bear.”
Apparently, “arising quick” for NU’s requirements took the type of an astounding 713-point title-clinching routine, 33 complete factors forward of eventual silver medalist Adamson Pep Squad (679.5).
For reference, the ultimate podium spot between former champion FEU and resurgent UE was determined by a mere 9 factors, 650 to 641, whereas UST skidded to fifth simply seven factors beneath at 634.5.
Nationwide recruitment, brutal coaching schedule pays off
Make no mistake, Bajacan was not placing on an insincere humble-pie act. NU Pep really has one of many league’s hardest coaching schedules, going every day for months on finish, stretching to the wee hours of the night time each single session.
Mix that with one of the crucial far-reaching recruitment drives in Philippine cheerleading, and you’ve got a recipe for excessive psychological strain to ship a assured return bundle of gleaming gold.
“Each night time, I considered [last year’s runner-up finish] as a result of it was large private strain for me, particularly with all of the upheaval occurring within the crew,” continued Bajacan, who was noticed recruiting younger gymnasts — pop-up sales space and all — on the 2024 Palarong Pambansa in Cebu.
“I used to be scared to tackle the strain that coach Ghicka [Bernabe’s achievements] gave me, to obtain that baton from her. It was all so heavy, that’s why I nonetheless can’t imagine we now have eight titles. Hopefully we are able to get 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15…so long as we are able to do it, we’ll accomplish that.”
If this 12 months’s CDC was any indication, the NU Pep Squad really isn’t going wherever because the gold customary in UAAP — even perhaps Asian — competitors.
As their theme prompt, the sky’s the restrict isn’t even sufficient at this level. They need to transcend. – Rappler.com
