CREAMLINE is going all in for the 2025 AVC Women’s Champions League as it is reportedly set to tap two more foreign guest reinforcements in Kazakh middle blocker Anastassiya Kolomoyets and Russian winger Anastasiya Kudryashova, multiple sources told SPIN.ph.
Along with resident American spiker Erica Staunton, the Cool Smashers have now maxed out their three-import allocation for the 12-team regional tournament from Apr. 20 to 27 at the Philsports Arena.
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Not only are they each other’s namesakes but they also just recently shared the same side of the taraflex for VC Kuanysh for the Kazakhstan Women's National League. Moreover, they even shared clips and photos of their arrival in the Philippines on their Instagram pages upon arriving on Sunday morning.
Kolomoyets, 34, was part of the Kazakh club’s title-winning squad in the 2022 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship — the former competition name of the AVC Women’s Champions League — that qualified for that year’s FIVB Women's Volleyball Club World Championship as the Asian champions.
They’d go on to finish last in the six-team global conclave after failing to make it out of the group stage against eventual runner-up in Türkiye’s VakıfBank İstanbul and Brazil’s Gerdau Minas.
The 6-foot defender has won her homeland’s national volleyball league twice, along with a silver and a pair of bronze medals to her name.
She also has one gold, three silver and two bronze in the Kazakhstan Cup plus two more bridesmaid finishes in the nation’s Super Cup.
From Anastassiya to Anastasiya
Meanwhile, her former club teammate Kudryashova has taken her talents not only in Kazakhstan but also in her homeland of Russia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
At 6-foot-4, Kudryashova is a former Kazakhstan Super Cup champion and twice a Kazakhstan Cup bronze medalist — having had her fair share of success in the country just like Kolomoyets.
The 25-year-old outside spiker is also a serial podium finisher in the Bosnian Premijer Liga, Bosnian Cup, Kup Republike Srpske and the Russian Vischaya Liga B over the last decade.
She also played in the US NCAA Division I for the Penn State Nittany Lions in the Big Ten Conference.
With Kolomoyets, Kudryashova and Staunton onboard, the Cool Smashers look to redeem themselves from a rare yet crushing title loss in the 2024-25 PVL All-Filipino Conference come the Asian meet by first ruling Pool A against Kazakhstan’s Zhetysu VC and Jordan’s Al-Nassr Club.
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