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This UAAP Season 78, we are featuring
four of the top incoming freshmen who
have their sights on winning the Rookie
of the Year plum, and helping their
respective schools win the championship.

RAEGAN GAVINO

17, ADMU– College Division
Course: Management engineering
Stroke: BUTTERFLY

For Raegan Gavino, “The process is, and always
will be, more important than the outcome”. She
believes that there is a process for everything,

and it is thru process that one learns and
becomes better. Raegan shares that she started
swimming when she was seven years old

together with her siblings, Rogan and Raine
Gavino. What started out as a casual activity
to stay fit and bond with her siblings became
a more competitive endeavor once she
reached the age of 10, when she started to first
compete internationally.
Born to a competitive family, Raegan shares that her
siblings inspire and push her to be better especially
her sister, Raine, who is now studying and training in
Thailand. “We always try to beat each other and the thought
of being able to race her head to head again is what keeps me
going,” Raegan says. As competitive as her sister, Raegan notes
that she has also learned to accept that sometimes the good and
the bad meet. She recalls her experience in Southeast Asia Age
Group Swimming Championship in Brunei as one instance where she
simply had to use her bad swims as a positive motivator to become a
better athlete and keep improving.
A freshman in Ateneo de Manila University taking up Management
Engineering, Raegan expects to be able to perform well this UAAP
season by breaking her times, setting PB’s, and motivating her
teammates to give 110% effort and win as a team. “I love swimming
because it is a team sport, but at the same time it is an individual
sport,” she says. “Your teammates are there to support and cheer for
you, but in the end it’s really you vs. yourself – and that’s what makes
the sport enjoyable.”
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