With their strongest performance in recent history, the Stallion writers rose to second overall in the 15th Division Secondary Schools Press Conference (DSSPC).
In both English and Filipino, Xaverians competed with 21 other schools all over Pasig and San Juan in the following categories: editorial writing, news writing, sports writing, copy reading, and headline writing, photojournalism and features.
On the 22nd of September, sports writers and photojournalists gathered in Rizal High School to cover an exhibition volleyball game as part of the contest. For all other fields, students raced against an hour’s worth of time allotted for writing in the Brown Villa Complex of the La Immaculada Concepcion School, Pasig City on September 29.
Jose Cua (H4A), the highest individual scorer, topped the copy reading and headline writing events in English. For the editorial writing category in the English medium, Josh Lam (H3A), placed seventh, followed by Jose Cua, who placed tenth. Miguel de Jesus (H4B) also won seventh in the Filipino medium.
On the other hand, the best English news writer was Jose Cua who won first. Not far behind was Josh Lam who came in fourth in the same medium, and Martin Tee (H4B) who won second in the Filipino medium.
Photojournalists Andrew Chua (H4E) and Timothy Ong (H2B) placed second and eighth respectively in the Filipino medium while Huxley Yu (H3C) placed ninth in the English medium. For sports writing in English, Vinno Lee (H4E) grabbed second place. For editorial cartooning in Filipino, Miguel de Jesus ranked third while Eldridge Tan (H4A) ranked eighth.
All features writers entered in the English medium made it to the regionals: Jann Sy (H4B), placing second; Lancelot Yupingkun (H4B), placing third; Vinno Lee, placing tenth. Luis Marcelo (H3C) garnered fifth place in the same category for Filipino.
A limit of six students can be entered per category, having three per medium. A student may only participate in one medium in three categories at most.
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