The Ateneo de Davao University Athletics Office provides a life experience through which the athletic community grows in relationship with God — developing the whole person, nurturing excellence, learning leadership, and environmental awareness in pursuit of a just society, by:
- Providing the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and honesty;
- Promoting sportsmanship, fair play, and fiscal responsibility per university policies;
- Promoting diverse student bodies, faculty, and staff with equitable opportunities;
- Fostering balanced, integrated intellectual, emotional, spiritual, social, and physical formation of student-athletes;
- Promoting life skills, mental alertness, educational advancement, career mobility, religiosity, and love of country;
- Advancing values, excellence, leadership, charity, justice, patience, loyalty, and humility; and
- Pursuing formative values through sports and learning — competitiveness, fairness, modesty in victory, magnanimity in defeat, compassion, confidence, and humility.