Pinay excels in West Point
February 25, 2008 -- Got something to say?
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WEST POINT, N.Y. - Christy Isis Achanzar, the Filipina who is set to make history this year as the first Filipino woman born and raised in the Philippines to graduate from Americas premier military institution, the United States Military Academy (USMA), has earned the Superintendents Award for Achievement.
The award, presented to the top 20 percent of cadets who excel in academic, military and physical programs, will be formally bestowed on Achanzar during the USMA commencement exercises slated on May 31. Achanzar, 24, daughter of Ermine and Asuncion Achanzar of Davao City, Philippines, earlier said the thought of being the first Philippine-born woman to graduate from West Point gives her both goose bumps and strong desire to do better in order to elevate the status of Filipino women in the military.
Being female and Filipino in a male-dominated academy does not faze Achanzar, who was with the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in Baguio City before joining West Point. Achanzar entered West Point in June 2004, almost 30 years after the USMA began admitting female cadets in its over two centuries of existence. I only asked to be part of the PMA, but God gave me West Point, she once said.
The top 50 from Achanzars plebe class at the PMA were asked to take an initial test. That number was whittled down to 16, and all of us underwent interviews [with] the respective U.S. service academies we had chosen.” (For her, it was the Army.)
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