List of Filipino American sportspeople

This is a list of American sportspeople of Filipino ancestry.

Baseball

Basketball

Chess

Combat sports/martial arts

Cycling, Road, BMX, and Track

Fencing


Figure skating

Hockey

American football

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Gymnastics
  • Kyla Ross – member of the Fierce Five, the gold medal-winning US Women's Gymnastics team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
  • Ava Verdeflor – Philippines national team member training in Allen, Texas. 2014 Youth Olympics competitor.

Poker

Skateboarding
  • Henry Gutierrez – professional vert skateboarder
  • Sean Malto – professional skateboarder
  • Pat Ngoho – professional vert skateboarder/artist
  • Lizzie Armanto – professional vert skateboarder
  • Adrian Demain – professional vert skateboarder/artist[21]
  • Willy Santos – professional skateboarder[22]
  • Sergie Ventura – professional vert skateboarder[23]
  • Doug Saladino – professional vert skateboarder[24]

Football/Soccer
  • Joshua Alcala – American born Hispanic/Filipino soccer player.[25] Has played in the United States Soccer Leagues D1 & D2.
  • Henry Brauner – has played in the USL Premier Development League and the Philippines national team.
  • Heather Cooke has played for the Philippines national team.
  • Anton del Rosario – American born. Played NCAA soccer for Skyline College, Notre Dame de Namur University, and Philippine national football team.
  • Natasha Kai – American soccer player and member of the United States women's national soccer team.
  • Nick Rimando – Filipino, Mexican American soccer player who currently plays for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.[26]
  • Tiffany Roberts – American soccer player and former member of the United States Women's National Soccer Team (Filipina mother).[27]

Speed Skating

Track & Field

Table tennis

Tennis

Volleyball

Water sports
  • Victoria Manalo Draves – diver who was the first Asian American gold medalist, and first woman to win two gold medals in springboard diving at the 1948 Olympics in London.
  • Sunny Garcia – surfing world champion, surfing legend.
  • Malia Jones – surfing model, People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People.
  • Natalie Coughlin – International swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist (with Filipino ancestry)
  • Nicole Oliva - swimmer
  • Henley Masa – surfing world champion, WSL U.S. Open Champion

Wrestlers
  • David Bautista – former professional mixed martial artist, and former professional wrestler best known for his time in the WWE under the ring name Batista. He is a six-time world champion, winning the World Heavyweight Championship four times and the WWE Championship twice.[31]
  • Michael Paris – better known as DJZ for his time with TNA Wrestling. Currently signed with WWE where he performs on the NXT brand under the ring name Joaquin Wilde.
  • Benny Cuntapay – also known by his ring alias B-Boy. Performer in CZW or Combat Zone Wrestling, also wrestled as Bael in Lucha Underground but was killed off in a storyline angle.
  • T. J. Perkins – best known as the Inaugural WWE Cruiserweight Champion.[32] Performed in WWE's Raw brand under the name TJ Perkins.[33] Also a former wrestler for TNA Wrestling formerly known as Suicide. Perkins is also known by his ring aliases Pinoy Boy and Puma.
  • Kris Hernandez – better known by the ring name Kris Wolf[34]
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References
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  2. Nickel, Lori (25 April 2013). "Brewers' Lohse another product of Chico". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 15 October 2014. But for Lohse, that's not the whole story. There's a whole other community pulling for him because he is one of just a handful of Native Americans to be playing major-league baseball. His mother is half Filipino and half Native American; the Lohses are members of the Nomlaki tribe.
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  22. Willy Santos
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