The Diliman Preparatory School,
known for its world-class facilities and high educational standards, is slowly
becoming an attractive institution for student athletes.
With this, former Sen. Anna Dominique “Nikki” Coseteng, president of Diliman
Preparatory School, has offered student athletes a 100 percent tuition fee discount in recognition of their
outstanding achievements and contribution to the school.
“It’s about time that we give due recognition
to the invaluable efforts our student athletes. I hope this will encourage them
to study and train harder,” said Coseteng, who became president of Diliman Preparatory School in 2006.
Sports covered by the discount are basketball, volleyball, table tennis,
wall climbing, chess and taekwondo, where majority of the members of the school
varsity team are included in the national squad.
Among the beneficiaries are twins Keith Stephanie and Patricia Stephanie Go
in chess, and taekwondo’s Jaira Lizardo and Charizza Camille Alombro, who have
all flourished and realized their potential under the school's sports
development program actively supported by Coseteng.
The Go siblings, sophomore students in DPS, finished first and second in the
recently concluded Athletic
Association of Private Schools (AAPS) Inter-School District III – Quezon City Chess Meet where Keith ran away with the gold.
Alombro, a bemedalled senior, also made waves in the local and international
taekwondo arena with a breakthrough victory in the 4thKorea Open
International Taekwondo Championship last November 2008.
The 14-year-old senior, also the surprise winner in the sports talent search Pinoy Idoland a perennial title contender at the Palarong Pambansa, made the country proud with a
silver-medal finish in the All Women’s National Taekwondo Championships last May. Last
March, she bagged a silver in the 7th World Junior Taekwondo Championship in
Turkey.
