Former Tall Blacks coach Tab Baldwin has been permanently banned from university sport in the Philippines, following the deaths of two players at a training boot camp.<\/p>\n
Strong waves had swept several players from the Ateneo Blue Eagles basketball team into deeper water, the university said. Two players, Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili, lost their lives.<\/p>\n
Baldwin was stood down while the university and government agencies investigated the incident in Dipaculao, northeast Philippines. He subsequently announced he would leave his position.<\/p>\n
On 7 August, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines confirmed Baldwin had been “perpetually banned” from university sport.<\/p>\n
“Thomas Anthony Baldwin is perpetually banned from all UAAP competitions and related activities, in any coaching, administrative, advisory, or official capacity, and he is also prohibited from entering any UAAP competition venue,” a statement from the organisation said.<\/p>\n
“This sanction is final and shall not be appealable.”<\/p>\n
Team manager Epok Quimpo, assistant coaches Dean Casta\u00f1o, Sandro Soriano, Reynaldo Jacinto Jr, Hernan Domingo, Caesar Elumba, Grant Dearns, and physical therapist John Rueca were all given indefinite suspensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tall Blacks coach Tab Baldwin has been permanently banned from university sport in the Philippines, following the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-569910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}