La Salle Green Hills Greenies
The La Salle Green Hills Greenies is the varsity team representing La Salle Green Hills located in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. In the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines), they compete as De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde's junior counterparts from 1998 onwards, and are officially designated as "Benilde–LSGH Greenies". From 1968 to 1981, they were De [La Salle University]'s NCAA junior counterparts.
History
La Salle Green Hills' varsity team started as the La Salle Green Hills Rangers from the opening of the school in 1959 until it entered the NCAA as the juniors team representing De La Salle University in 1968, thus renaming them the La Salle Green Hills Greenies. The Greenies enjoyed the spotlight as the NCAA juniors team of the then De La Salle College in Manila, winning 8 general championships along the way, until both DLSU and LSGH simultaneously formally withdrew from the NCAA in a press conference in September 1980 effective after the then ongoing 1980–81 NCAA Season.With De La Salle University
The Greenies entered the NCAA as the Junior Reps of then De La Salle College in 1968. LSGH took over the slot of the phased out De La Salle College High School which also had the same monikers-the Greenies. That initial NCAA stint of the LSGH Greenies lasted until school year 1980–81 when both DLSU and LSGH formally and simultaneously withdrew from the NCAA. Within that 13-year NCAA period, the Greenies won eight NCAA General Championships. DLSU together with LSGH withdrew from the NCAA due to several brawls between LSGH and main rivals Ateneo de Manila High School, and between DLSU and main rival school Letran. When DLSU applied for the UAAP in 1981, a number of schools rejected La Salle's application. Five years later after a thorough review by the then UAAP board, they finally accepted La Salle as the eighth member in 1986. Ateneo de Manila also rejected LSGH's application after LSGH's athletes were involved in various riots with some Ateneo Blue Eaglets while they were in the NCAA, this delayed DLSU's spot in the UAAP, thus forcing DLSU to choose the newly established De La Salle–Santiago Zobel School as their representatives in the Juniors' Division.However, in the annual Filoil EcoOil Preseason Cup which started in 2006, the La Salle Greenies were selected to be the juniors team of the De La Salle Green Archers, thus being the first time the Greenies played alongside the Green Archers since 1981.
With De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde
When DLSU and DLSZ entered the UAAP in 1986, La Salle Green Hills was left without a membership in either the UAAP or the NCAA, thus starting a 17-year drought in a major collegiate league since its formal withdrawal from the NCAA in 1981. La Salle Green Hills however continued participating in several major grade school and high school leagues such as the PAYA, Nike, RIFA Football League, Baseball Pony League, PRADA, MMBL, and Fr. Martin's Cup.De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, a brother college of De La Salle University, applied for admission to the NCAA through the efforts of then De La Salle University President Brother Andrew Gonzalez FSC and the La Salle Green Hills President Brother Bernard Oca FSC, who selected the Greenies to be the juniors team. Both De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde and La Salle Green Hills were admitted to the NCAA in 1998. Although the team name of La Salle Green Hills is Greenies, the school's official mascot is the Green Archer. Since then they have won four General Championships and championships in various events, particularly basketball, football, lawn tennis, track & field, and swimming.