Aric del Rosario
Januario "Aric" del Rosario (January 1, 1940 – March 25, 2020) was a Filipino basketball player and coach who served as head coach of the UST Growling Tigers in the UAAP, Pampanga Dragons in the Metropolitan Basketball Association, the 2003 RP Men's Team in the Southeast Asian Games, and of the UPHSD Altas from 2012 to 2015; until he retired and was made a consultant of the team in the NCAA. He was also a consultant and assistant Coach of Toyota-Balintawak Road Kings in the Philippine Basketball League. He was the commissioner of the NCAA (Philippines) from 2009 to 2011.
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| Born | January 1, 1940 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | March 25, 2020 (aged 80) Manila, Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Filipino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| College | University of Santo Tomas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career | 1985–2003; 2012–2015; 2018–2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1985–1987 | UST Growling Tigers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1997 | Alaska Air Force/Milkmen (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1990–2003 | UST Growling Tigers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Pampanga Dragons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Mobiline/Talk 'N Text Phone Pals (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Perpetual Altas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Parañaque Patriots | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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As a UST player, del Rosario was part of the 1964 Glowing goldies team that won the UAAP Basketball Championship that year together with Hector Hipolito, the coach of the Adamson team that battled UST in its last game of the eliminations of the 1993 season en route to the rare sweep, 14-0, that made UST the automatic champions that year.