When Vange Alinsug takes the helm of the Nationwide College Girl Bulldogs subsequent season, she’s going to achieve this using the momentum of back-to-back championships.
Perhaps that’s the place her confidence comes from.
As a result of should you ask the highly effective exterior hitter, she’s able to tackle the mantle of management of a program seeking to stretch its dynastic rule within the UAAP girls’s volleyball match.
“I believe, sure,” Alinsug answered with out hesitation when requested if it was her flip to shoulder the duty of main NU subsequent season. “Figuring out that [our seniors] are leaving, I hope that these of us who might be left behind can carry this over to the subsequent season.”
If there have been doubts on the 5-foot-7 standout’s declare, they had been quashed in Recreation 2, when she scored the ultimate two factors of a 25-19, 25-18, 25-19 victory that denied La Salle an opportunity at a deciding recreation.
These two factors successfully lowered the curtains on the period of Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon, the 1-2 outside-opposite punch that led this system to a few titles in a four-season stretch.
And if these two factors weren’t sufficient proof, the 22-year-old Alinsug introduced dwelling a Finals MVP trophy she shared with libero and fellow holdover Shaira Jardio
“It is going to be a tricky accountability as a result of we’ll be shedding robust teammates who’re irreplaceable. However we’re going to work for it. We have now months to try this and switch [their departures] into inspiration,” mentioned Alinsug.
“There’s no objective you’ll be able to obtain simply should you’re not working exhausting for it,” she added.
Belen and Solomon are assured that Alinsug, Jardio and the remainder of the Girl Bulldogs have what it takes to proceed a run of success that began throughout their highschool years.
Constructing legacy
“We have now big belief in [players] we’ll depart,” mentioned the three-time MVP Belen. “I’ve big belief in them and our different teammates as a result of we noticed this early how exhausting they work. And we all know them personally—they received’t take the workforce as a right, no matter who graduates or strikes on. I do know that NU is in good arms.”
“We’ve seen how mature they’re with dealing with the workforce, and the way keen they’re to tackle the roles that might be handed to them,” Solomon mentioned.
This easy passing of the torch is what actually distinguishes Nationwide College from different colleges within the subject. The Girl Bulldogs aren’t simply churning out trophies, they’re constructing a legacy past fleeting brilliance.
They play the lengthy recreation, too. And even back-to-back champions can not distract them from that focus.
“We’re simply going to take a trip. After that, we get again to work, coaching for the subsequent season,” mentioned Jardio.
That “we” consists of, for now, Alinsug, Jardio, ace setter Lams Lamina, center blockers Sheena Toring and Erin Pangilinan and promising expertise Arah Panique, the surface hitter who has already had a stint with the nationwide girls’s workforce.
They are going to be, Alinsug mentioned, the leaders of the workforce subsequent season.
“Even when our seniors from the primary six might be leaving, they are going to be changed by stronger recruits and we’ll proceed to place within the work,” she mentioned.
She hinted at a powerful recruit becoming a member of the squad however pursed her lips when pressed for a reputation on nationwide TV. Whoever it’s, she’ll be becoming a member of a squad that’s already favored to maintain its profitable custom going.
“Hopefully, this could possibly be adopted,” a smiling Sherwin Meneses, the Girl Bulldogs coach, mentioned on the heels of the triumph at Mall of Asia Enviornment in Pasay Metropolis.
That’s not far-fetched.
“I do know that NU is in good arms,” Belen mentioned.
And amongst them is a champion whose time has come to take the lead in constructing on faculty volleyball’s vaunted dynasty.
