MANILA, Philippines — Oliver Almadro comes dwelling to the NCAA as he was appointed as the brand new Letran ladies’s volleyball coach forward of the Season 99 opening later this yr.
Almadro, who performed for the Letran males’s volleyball staff throughout the 90s, returns to his alma mater after his decade-long stint with Ateneo ended final July when Brazilian Sergio Veloso changed him as the brand new ladies’s volleyball staff coach.
Fr. Vic Calvo, OP confirmed that Almadro is taking the teaching reins, changing longtime Girl Knights coach Mike Inoferio.
“I’m completely satisfied to have one of many high minds in Philippine volleyball. The Letran volleyball program will likely be dealt with by him with a major concentrate on ladies’s volleyball. As a result of he’s from Letran, he suits in effectively with Letran,” mentioned Calvo.
Almadro, who handles the Petro Gazz Angels within the Premier Volleyball League and steered the staff to the All-Filipino finals in his first event, is bringing his profitable tradition to the NCAA.
Letran has been lacking the Last 4 for the previous 11 years because it final reached the semifinals in Season 87 final 2012 with a finals look however bought swept by College of Perpetual Assist in the sequence. The Girl Knights final gained a championship in 1999.
The Girl Knights fell a spot wanting the stepladder semis in Season 98 with a 5-4 end behind finalist Lyceum and semifinalist Mapua College.
The animated coach dealt with the Blue Eagles, led by five-time MVP Marck Espejo, from 2013 to 2018 and gained three consecutive titles from Seasons 77 to 79.
He was transferred to the ladies’s staff, bannered by Kat Tolentino, Deanna Wong, Maddie Madayag, and Bea De Leon in 2019, and gained the Season 81 championship straight away, pulling off a sequence comeback over the College of Santo Tomas, led by Sisi Rondina and Eya Laure.
Almadro and the Blue Eagles settled for bronze in Season 84 final yr and missed the Last 4 this yr for the primary time since 2009 with a 4-10 file.
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