Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
María Celeste Arrarás
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Early life and education== María Celeste Arrarás was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, the first child of [[José Enrique Arrarás]], a politician, lawyer, and educator, and Astrid Mangual, a homemaker and chemist.<ref>{{cite web|title=JAIME BAYLY ENTREVISTA A MARIA CELESTE ARRARAS VOL 1 MEGA TV EXCLUSIVA| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3oSdbvySM| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904122538/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3oSdbvySM| archive-date=2015-09-04 | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=JAIME BAYLY ENTREVISTA A MARIA CELESTE ARRARAS VOL 2 MEGA TV EXCLUSIVA| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i7X2qqhYVs| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202022640/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i7X2qqhYVs| archive-date=2017-02-02 | url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=JAIME BAYLY ENTREVISTA A MARIA CELESTE ARRARAS VOL 3 MEGA TV EXCLUSIVA| website=[[YouTube]] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSCrX3DqZU| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202014004/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeSCrX3DqZU| archive-date=2017-02-02 | url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1971, she won three medals (one gold, one silver, and one bronze) at the Central American and Caribbean Swimming Championships. She qualified to compete at the 1976 [[Summer Olympics]] in Montreal, Canada, but was unable to compete after she contracted mononucleosis, one week before the games began.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cuando Yo Era Niño: María Celeste Arrarás revive su niñez como nadadora|url=http://www.telemundo.com/shows/2015/06/12/cuando-yo-era-nino-maria-celeste-arraras-revive-su-ninez-como-nadadora-video}}</ref> In 1978, Arrarás left her native Puerto Rico to attend [[Loyola University New Orleans|Loyola University]] in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she majored in communications at Loyola University. In 2016, Arrarás returned to Loyola University, where she was inducted into the School of Mass Communication's Den of Distinction and was honored by Loyola University for her career in television.<ref>{{cite web|title=Telemundo Anchor Maria Celeste Arrarás Visits Loyola University New Orleans|url=http://www.loyno.edu/news/story/2016/4/7/3734}}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
María Celeste Arrarás
(section)
Add topic
