St. Benilde Blazers star Cloanne Mondoñedo throughout Collegiate Press Coprs Awards. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Everyone within the NCAA knew that Cloanne Mondoñedo deserved to win the ladies’s volleyball MVP award.
Besides, possibly, St. Benilde’s ace playmaker herself.
“I needed to persuade myself that possibly this one’s actually for me as a result of I actually labored arduous ever since I joined NCAA,” Mondoñedo mentioned on late Monday night after being hailed by the Collegiate Press Corps because the most interesting girls’s volleyball athlete of the nation’s oldest varsity competitors.
Apart from the truth that Mondoñedo believes so many gifted gamers additionally should be named MVP, there’s that one little undeniable fact that contributed closely to her disbelief: Setters not often win the best particular person award, and Mondoñedo knew her victory was a statistical rarity.
“To be trustworthy, I used to be shocked. I didn’t count on it,” she mentioned. “As a result of all I [was expecting] is the [best] setter award as a bonus to profitable the championship.”
“I actually considered it. At first, I mentioned, “how?” I requested numerous questions.” she mentioned, laughing. “Why me? Why me? How did that occur? After which, I used to be shocked after I accepted the award from NCAA. They informed me that it’s very uncommon to get the MVP and setter.”
Within the collegiate ranks, particular person awards are purely stats-based, with no votes getting in the way in which of the method.
And for setters, that’s an impediment.
Historically, the statistical factors that depend towards the MVP race embrace factors, assaults, blocks, serves, digs, units and receptions.
Spikers and blockers hog numerous these statistical factors, particularly on factors and assaults. At most, playmakers draw their factors from units, serves and typically—due to their common proximity to the online—blocks. Digs could also be scattered amongst staff members however usually, opposing squads have a selected goal with their providers, lessening the probabilities for setters to earn factors off receptions.
Lengthy-time beat reporters of the NCAA defined that it took a confluence of occasions to open up a path for Mondoñedo towards the MVP award.
First, a majority of the statistical factors, particularly the bonuses for gained video games, have been sucked in by St. Benilde. And the Girl Blazers’ manufacturing was effectively unfold out throughout its gifted roster.
Then, there was the truth that there was no dominant performer within the NCAA the way in which the UAAP had. No Bella Belen, Angge Poyos, Angel Canino or Casiey Dongallo arising with monster 20-plus factors a recreation the way in which former San Sebastian star Grethcel Soltones did earlier than.
Crucially, maybe, the MVP candidates of the NCAA have been culled from the 4 groups that survived the elimination spherical.
Until these components mix in a season once more, setters—who get the staff offense going and open up alternatives for his or her spikers and blockers to attain—might not be within the mixture of MVP contenders.
It was fairly telling in the course of the CPC Awards Night time that Mondoñedo’s feat was described as one thing that “hasn’t occurred in latest reminiscence”—which is shorthand for “we will’t recall if this has occurred in any respect.” Within the UAAP, not less than because the 1996-97 season, no setter has gained the MVP award.
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