Ateneo Blue Eagles’ Roma Mae Doromal. –UAAP PHOTO
The Ateneo ladies’s volleyball workforce could also be in its rebuilding section, however there are not any causes to rely the squad out simply but.
Flaunting a brand new system beneath new Brazilian coach Sergio Veloso, who changed Oliver Almadro in July, the Blue Eagles are optimistic going into the Shakey’s Tremendous League (SSL) Preseason Championship the place they get to measure how their program will fare towards collegiate groups together with different UAAP squads.
Among the many modifications that Veloso applied are within the participant dynamics and elementary expertise, comparable to receiving type and protection, of the Blue Eagles forward of the UAAP and the SSL, the place they anticipate to see what elements of their recreation nonetheless want engaged on.
However additionally it is a chance to introduce the brand new Blue Eagles to the workforce system, because the squad appears to be like to rise after lacking the Remaining 4 of the UAAP final season.
“To date, we haven’t encountered any main hitch. The whole lot goes easily in our preparations,” Ateneo workforce supervisor Renchie Veracruz advised the Inquirer. “I assume our fundamental objective for [SSL] since every little thing is new is to benchmark the place we’re by way of our preparation for [UAAP].”
“I’m excited to see how that system will work for Ateneo and naturally see if that system will match the Philippines as a result of [Ateneo women’s team’s] common top is identical for the nationwide workforce,” Veracruz added with a mixture of English.
Welcome addition
Veloso, who can be the nationwide coach for the lads’s volleyball workforce at present competing for the primary time after virtually half a century within the Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China, is a welcome addition to the Katipunan-based squad along with his years of worldwide expertise bringing hopes of lifting Philippine volleyball.
“Coach Sergio is new to the Philippine ladies’s volleyball scene so no matter his learnings are from overseas that he’s educating to us in Ateneo is what I’m excited to see … think about a neighborhood collegiate workforce executing worldwide expertise,” he mentioned.
“[Maybe] we will scale it right down to grassroots after which ultimately go as much as the senior nationwide workforce so it provides me personally hope that Philippine volleyball will nonetheless elevate.”
Bracketed in Pool D with Far Japanese College, Emilio Aguinaldo Faculty and Mapua Univeristy, who’s Ateneo’s opening recreation on Sept. 24 at FilOil EcoOil Centre, the Blue Eagles is backstopped by veteran libero Roma Doromal, Lyann de Guzman and nationwide workforce center blocker AC Miner.
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“Since we’re rebuilding, we’re discovering out the id of the workforce as early hopefully because the match ends we get to know this workforce’s character and that’s what we’ll construct up going into the UAAP,” Veracruz mentioned.