Next NU chief Vange Alinsug eyes larger position for back-to-back queens

When Vange Alinsug takes the helm of the National University Lady Bulldogs subsequent season, she is going to accomplish that using the momentum of back-to-back championships.

Maybe that’s the place her self belief comes from.

Because for those who ask the tough outdoors hitter, she’s able to take at the mantle of management of a program having a look to stretch its dynastic rule within the UAAP girls’s volleyball match.

“I think, yes,” Alinsug replied with out hesitation when requested if it was once her flip to shoulder the duty of main NU subsequent season. “Knowing that [our seniors] are leaving, I hope that those of us who will be left behind can carry this over to the next season.”

If there have been doubts at the 5-foot-7 standout’s declare, they had been quashed in Game 2, when she scored the overall two issues of a 25-19, 25-18, 25-19 victory that denied La Salle a possibility at a deciding recreation.

Those two issues successfully decreased the curtains at the generation of Bella Belen and Alyssa Solomon, the 1-2 outside-opposite punch that led this system to a few titles in a four-season stretch.

And if the ones two issues weren’t sufficient evidence, the 22-year-old Alinsug introduced house a Finals MVP trophy she shared with libero and fellow holdover Shaira Jardio

“It will be a tough responsibility because we’ll be losing tough teammates who are irreplaceable. But we’re going to work for it. We have months to do that and turn [their departures] into inspiration,” stated Alinsug.

“There’s no goal you can achieve easily if you’re not working hard for it,” she added.

Belen and Solomon are assured that Alinsug, Jardio and the remainder of the Lady Bulldogs have what it takes to proceed a run of luck that began right through their highschool years.

Building legacy

“We have huge trust in [players] we’ll leave,” stated the three-time MVP Belen. “I have huge trust in them and our other teammates because we saw this early how hard they work. And we know them personally—they won’t take the team for granted, regardless of who graduates or moves on. I know that NU is in good hands.”

“We’ve seen how mature they are with handling the team, and how eager they are to take on the roles that will be handed to them,” Solomon stated.

This easy passing of the torch is what in reality distinguishes National University from different colleges within the box. The Lady Bulldogs aren’t simply churning out trophies, they’re construction a legacy past fleeting brilliance.

They play the lengthy recreation, too. And even back-to-back champions can not distract them from that focal point.

“We’re just going to take a vacation. After that, we get back to work, training for the next season,” stated Jardio.

That “we” comprises, for now, Alinsug, Jardio, ace setter Lams Lamina, heart blockers Sheena Toring and Erin Pangilinan and promising skill Arah Panique, the outdoors hitter who has already had a stint with the nationwide girls’s workforce.

They can be, Alinsug stated, the leaders of the workforce subsequent season.

“Even if our seniors from the first six will be leaving, they will be replaced by stronger recruits and we’ll continue to put in the work,” she stated.

She hinted at a powerful recruit becoming a member of the squad however pursed her lips when pressed for a reputation on nationwide TV. Whoever it’s, she’ll be becoming a member of a squad that’s already preferred to stay its profitable custom going.

“Hopefully, this could be followed,” a smiling Sherwin Meneses, the Lady Bulldogs trainer, stated at the heels of the triumph at Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City.

That’s no longer far-fetched.

“I know that NU is in good hands,” Belen stated.

And amongst them is a champion whose time has come to take the lead in construction on faculty volleyball’s vaunted dynasty.