NCAA gamers allowed to sign up for 2025 PVL Draft midseason

MANILA, Philippines —The stars of NCAA girls’s volleyball can claim for the 2025 PVL Rookie Draft even whilst Season 100 continues to be ongoing.

With the NCAA match halfway thru the second one spherical of eliminations and the PVL draft utility cut-off date set for Friday, the rustic’s oldest collegiate league is permitting gamers to go into the draft so long as they protected permission from the Management Committee.

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“Those who are interested in getting drafted by the PVL teams, inform the management committee about their intention to join the Draft. That’s all they have to do. The NCAA will not prevent anyone from being drafted, and in fact, we will endorse the request to be drafted,” mentioned NCAA Season 100 Management Committee Chairman Herc Callanta of Lyceum.

“To my knowledge, three players have already signified their intention of wanting to be drafted to the PVL. And they have written letters already and the respective mancomm representatives of those schools have already endorsed the letters.”

And although an NCAA participant will get drafted, she will nonetheless play for her faculty so long as she has but to signal a professional contract, as consistent with the league regulations.

“The NCAA allows that, as long as they don’t sign a contract yet. Players can join the Draft, attend the Combine, even get drafted and start practicing with their new team. They just can’t sign a contract or play in any official PVL games yet. Exhibition games? Those are okay. We’ll allow that,” mentioned NCAA volleyball committee member Peter Cayco of Arellano University in Filipino.

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“And this goes for even basketball, all professional leagues that want to draft NCAA players, they can actually be drafted, [however] they should not sign a contract yet for as long as the season is ongoing. They will be offered contracts, I’m sure, but they should not sign yet their contracts prior to the end of the season,” Callanta added.

In truth, the NCAA printed that College of Saint Benilde megastar Mycah Go has already implemented for the draft.

Go used to be signed by means of Farm Fresh within the 2023 PVL season however didn’t play a unmarried recreation because of a knee damage. Because she wasn’t coated up, the Lady Blazers’ spiker is needed to go into the PVL Rookie Draft.

St. Benilde megastar Mycah Go. –V-LEAGUE PHOTO

“Actually, two players have already applied—they wrote to the NCAA to say they want to join. One is Mycah Go from CSB, and the other is from LPU,” mentioned Cayco.

Last 12 months, Arellano’s Lorraine Pecaña used to be the lone NCAA participant decided on within the first spherical of the inaugural PVL Draft. Choco Mucho picked her 11th general, and he or she emerged because the staff’s beginning center blocker within the All-Filipino Conference.

Other former NCAA standouts drafted incorporated Perpetual Help center blocker Razel Aldea (Nxled), Arellano setter Donnalyn Paralejas (Petro Gazz), and any other Lady Chief, Dodee Batindaan (Galeries Tower).

The Draft Lottery is about for Monday on the TV5 Media Center, with Nxled maintaining the best chance of touchdown the No. 1 general pick out at 40 p.c, adopted by means of Capital1 at 30 p.c. Farm Fresh and Galeries Tower are tied within the blended standings and can go through a tiebreaker to resolve who will get the 20 p.c and 10 p.c lottery possibilities.

Draft night time is scheduled for June 8 at Novotel.