NU Woman Bulldogs deliver worldwide expertise into Tremendous League protection

NU Woman Bulldogs’ Erin Pangilinan (#14). –UAAP PHOTO

MANILA, Philippines — Regardless of their fruitful Philippine ladies’s volleyball crew stint, Erin Pangilinan and the Nationwide College Woman Bulldogs aren’t resting on their laurels after they defend their crown within the Shakey’s Tremendous League (SSL) preseason championship.

The NU core, bannered by Most Beneficial Gamers Alyssa Solomon and Bella Belen in addition to setter Lams Lamina and Pangilinan, represented the nation within the two legs of the Southeast Asia (SEA) VLeague, the place they ended up winless in six video games.

In addition they completed thirteenth within the 14-team Asian Senior Girls’s Volleyball Championship in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand two weeks in the past. 

“We realized quite a bit as people and as a crew. We are going to deliver these learnings to our video games. We’re additionally glad to expertise the worldwide degree,” crew captain Pangilinan instructed reporters in Filipino. “We additionally noticed that we’re nonetheless removed from the extent that we wish to obtain and the stand that we wish to set.”

From three worldwide tournaments, Pangilinan admitted the crew remains to be adjusting to the brand new system of coach Norman Miguel, who returned to NU to assist Karl Dimaculangan on the sidelines, and beginning life with out their seniors Cess Robles, Jennifer Nierva, and Joyme Cagande.

“We’re nonetheless adjusting to the issues we nonetheless lack, Our nationwide crew stint set a benchmark for our crew. We additionally want to shine our new system underneath coach Norman,” Pangilinan stated.

NU, which swept the inaugural SSL preseason match capped by a title-clinching win over La Salle final yr, will open its marketing campaign on September 23 in opposition to the College of the East, bannered by rookie Casiey Dongallo, the Shakey’s Ladies Volleyball Invitational League (GVIL) MVP from California Academy.

“I feel that sport can be very thrilling for everybody as a result of UE is making a brand new title [for itself] within the UAAP they usually’re doing very nice based mostly on how they play and the way they carry out,” Pangilinan stated. “For us in NU, we wish to present them what we realized from the nationwide crew and what we will do as a crew.”

The Woman Bulldogs are slated in Pool A along with NCAA groups San Sebastian Faculty and Jose Rizal College.

Pangilinan, for her half, can be embracing a much bigger position as a skipper and main the frontline of NU as Sheena Toring continues to get better.

“Being a pacesetter is already a part of my character. Being a crew captain this yr is nothing new for me. It’s simply we’re having a contemporary begin as a crew,” stated Pangilinan. “Sheena will not be alone in her street to restoration. The crew is behind her. We assist her and we’ll look forward to her. She’s doing nice and he or she has been becoming a member of scrimmages and already doing spiking drills.”

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