ADAMSON head coach Air Padda is proud of her Lady Falcons - especially her four individual awardees - for finishing bronze in the Premier Volleyball League Season 2 Collegiate Conference.
As UP completed a series sweep over FEU to win the PVL crown, Adamson and UST, who were tied at 1-1 in their battl-for-third series, didn’t have to play a decider for bronze on Saturday.
The Lady Falcons won third place via quotient tiebreaker with four points — with the three markers coming from a 15-25, 25-20, 25-20, 25-19 Game Two win on Wednesday — ahead of the Tigresses, who only got two points from their five-set conquest last Sunday.
“It may not have been the finish we wanted but we are so blessed and thankful to have earned this third place finish. Maraming Salamat to all the ADU fans para sa support, sana we made you proud,” Padda posted on her Facebook account after winning bronze.
Padda admitted that her wards lost their confidence after the first-game setback to UST, but the four individual awardees of her team, Best Opposite Spiker Eli Soyud, 2nd Best Outside Spiker Bern Flora, Best Setter MJ Igao, and Best Libero Thang Ponce boosted their morales and gave them motivation to win the bronze.
“It was so amazing that four of our players got awards. It came at the perfect time because they all needed confidence going into this match and it was just a reminder of all the hard work that we have been doing is not for nothing,” the American coach said.
“I knew for sure that Thang was gonna get best libero but I didn’t know for any of them and they didn’t know. So when they came in the room before the game, they were like pointing out telling the girls who got the awards they were like Adamson is the only team that has Four girls (with awards)" she added.
“I felt that really helped us win (the match against UST) giving that confidence they needed,” the Adamson coach cotinued.
The Lady Falcons swept the seven-game elimination round only to fall in the semifinals at the hands of the fourth-seeded Lady Maroons, who eventually won the championship, before settling for bronze.
Adamson will join the Open Conference, which starts on September 22.
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