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Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili Buried After June 8 Drowning During Ateneo Team Activity
The 18-year-old basketball prospect who arrived in Manila on June 4 to join Ateneo de Manila University drowned during a team-building activity. He was laid to rest in his hometown on June 24 alongside teammate Divine Adili.
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Rene Clert Baterbonia was buried June 24 in Talacogon, Agusan del Sur, Rappler reported. The 18-year-old arrived in Manila on June 4 to play for Ateneo de Manila University in the UAAP and drowned June 8 during an Ateneo Blue Eagles team-building activity in Aurora.
His mother, Rovelyn Baterbonia, stood at the casket holding what would have been his UAAP jersey number 35 and said team members should not sleep peacefully if they do not tell the truth.
Baterbonia, the 2025 Palarong Pambansa MVP, had six siblings and viewed basketball as a route out of poverty for his family. PBA player Scottie Thompson visited the wake. Flowers arrived from senders in the United States, Canada, and Saudi Arabia.
Twenty-one-year-old Nigerian teammate Divine Adili also drowned in the same June 8 incident.
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