UPLB dorm residents lead PasADAhan 2025

The UPLB Alliance of Dormitory Association (ADA) celebrated another year of sportsmanship and camaraderie with PasADAhan 2025. It held its Olympic and E-sports games on April 2-4, 2025, and the Philippine games and the beauty pageant, “Alab ng Aksyon: Mr. and Ms. PasADAhan 2025,” on April 5, 2025.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs (OVCSA), through the Office of Student Housing, has been hosting PasADAhan since 2000, two years after ADA was founded in 1998.

Office of Student Housing (OSH) Director Marc Immanuel Isip highlighted the efforts of ADA and OSH to make PasADAhan 2025 happen, celebrating the dormers who tirelessly contributed to the occasion to build camaraderie and life-long friendships in UPLB.

“I hope this activity will serve as a testament that the OSH goes beyond providing bed spaces. At UPLB dorms, you are provided with so many opportunities to express yourself, create lifelong camaraderie and relationships, showcase your talents and advocacies, achieve your childhood dreams, and enhance any of your capabilities,” Isip said in a Facebook post.

The dormer participants competed in basketball, volleyball, badminton, tug-of-war, sack race, Mobile Legends, Wild Rift, and other games.

The PasADAhan 2025 overall winners for the men’s category were the New Forestry Residence Hall (first place), Men’s Residence Hall (second place), and ATI-NTC Residence Hall (third place).

For the female category, the winners were the following: New Dormitory Residence Hall (first place), VetMed Residence Hall (second place), and Women’s Residence Hall (third place).

Gwen Erich Ladera of New Dormitory Residence Hall (New Dorm) was declared Ms. PasADAhan 2025, while Enrique Sebastian Salegumba of the New Forestry Residence Hall (New Foreha) won Mr. PasADAhan 2025.

Ladera also won Ms. Photogenic and Best in Creative Attire, while Salegumba bagged the awards for Best in Beachwear and Creative Attire.

Christian Valenzuela and Yuan Bibbi Navoa were the first and second runners-up in the Mr. PasADAhan competition, respectively. Meanwhile, Ashley Kiesha Millez R. Laddran, Chaellarie Mendoza, Zyrel Anne Sapinit, and Valerie Isa Elle Matias placed from first to fourth runner-up for the Ms. PasADAhan title.

The winners of the formal wear contest for male and female categories, Valenzuela and Sapinit, respectively, were named ambassadors for the clothing brand Xandra & Xandro-Laguna Branch, which was also a partner of the event.

The UPLB Dormers choir ensemble and guitar group Hamon ng Himig UPLB also performed during the program, along with the Los Baños-based dance group Newbiez.

UPLB Alliance of Dormitory Associations OIC Chair Gabriel Chan-Obina Borja concluded the PasADAhan 2025 program by declaring everyone a winner and highlighting the importance of community. “We are all winners here because the real prize lies not in medals, but in friendships we form, the essence we carry, and the strengths we gain,” he said.

He added, “Our fight doesn’t end here, it goes beyond the dorm walls. We challenge a status quo that places profit over people, convenience over compassion, tradition over progress, because being a dormer means more than having a roof, it means being part of the community that lifts us up when the world pushes us down.”