Joshua Yerro


Joshua "Wawa" Cabilin Yerro is a Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Quezon Huskers of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. After making a name in high school basketball in the Visayas, he committed to play for Adamson University in Manila and finish college studies.
Yerro doubled as a fish vendor and lechon cook during his early years as a student-athlete.

High school career

Yerro first played varsity basketball for Linao Elementary School before his stints at Palarong Pambansa, representing Central Visayas. He was a top high school player from the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation, Inc..

UV Baby Lancers

Yerro played twice in the CESAFI juniors' championship series under the University of the Visayas Baby Lancers.

Collegiate career

Following his mother's advice, Yerro chose to play in the UAAP under then Adamson head coach Franz Pumaren as top forward Sean Manganti left the Soaring Falcons to join the pro league PBA.
Yerro would later be the team captain in his last playing year.

Adamson Soaring Falcons

Yerro played three straight UAAP Final Four playoffs, with the Soaring Falcons triumphing against the De La Salle Green Archers and the UE Red Warriors from 2022 to 2024.
In a crucial game against Final Four contender National University Bulldogs, Yerro received an alley-oop inbound pass from Jhon Arthur Calisay with 0.3 seconds left, warded off an opponent's defense in mid-air, and hit an almost impossible buzzer-beater layup to win, 60-58, in the final year of the two senior standouts of assistant coach Gilbert Lao and head coach Nash Racela in Season 87 of the UAAP at the Araneta Coliseum on September 25, 2024.

Personal life

In October 2018, Yerro dedicated the best-of-three titular showdown of his high school team against the University of Cebu to his mother, who died that month.