UP Fighting Maroons
The Fighting Maroons is the name of the collegiate men's varsity teams of the University of the Philippines Diliman. The collegiate women's varsity teams are called the Lady Maroons. They compete in all of the sports of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). The University of the Philippines Integrated School is the affiliate juniors school. They play as the Junior Maroons, formerly the Preps.
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Famous quotes containing the words fighting and/or maroons:
“I’m not fighting any causes. I’m black, everybody can see that, but I am a storyteller for the masses.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
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