A very great and honorable achievement of FilAm athlete was highly recognized and seen, a first of it’s kind to be called in San Francisco.

According to the Foreign Affairs Statement the Olympian diver Victoria Manalo Draves who won the bronze plaque, was highly recognized and was recognition in the park that was named after her in South of Market, San Francisco.

In the United States where she won the Olympic Gold at the three-meter springboard and the 10 meter platform made her to be the first Filipino woman and the first Asian-American woman to have such this high and had garnered this kind of victory.

Having a Filipino Surname is one way that her nationality possessed.

It has been stated by Philippines Consul General Henry Bensurto, Jr stressing all the struggles, achiements.

According to Him, “She wanted to excel and compete as an athlete, and did so by using her mother’s maiden name,”