Alyssa Caymo Valdez

Born June 29, 1993 is a Filipino volleyball player who currently plays for the Creamline Cool
Smashers. She was a member of the collegiate varsity women’s volleyball team of Ateneo de
Manila University in both indoor and beach volleyball. She was most outstanding as an indoor
volleyball player where she brought multiple championship titles and a lot of honor for the
university. She is a current member of Philippines national team. Her global recognition paved
the way for her to play in other countries like Thailand for 3BB Nakornnont and Taiwan for
Attack Line Volleyball Club

Height
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight
50 kg (110 lb)
Spike
305 cm (120 in)
Block
280 cm (110 in)
College / University
Ateneo de Manila University

Volleyball information
Position
Outside hitter
Current club
Creamline Cool Smashers
Number
2
Valdéz led the Ateneo women’s volleyball team, which represented the Philippines, in the 2014
ASEAN University Games held in Palembang, Indonesia and took home the Bronze. That was
the first international medal of Valdez. In UAAP Season 77, Valdez tallied 312 points outscoring
her previous season’s finish.

She is fondly known as the ‘Ang Heartstrong Phenom Ng Batangas’ or the ‘Clutch Queen’.
Reader’s Digest spoke to a delighted Alyssa soon after her professional club team Creamline
Cool Smashers won the 2023 Premier Volleyball League Second All-Filipino Conference
championships

The “Phenom” — a moniker Alyssa was bestowed as the star of her Ateneo de Manila University
team — sat out the last two finals games, explaining to the press that she was still recovering
from a knee injury that had sidelined her for eight months

Alyssa Valdez is undoubtedly the most well-known volleyball player in the Philippines, and her
rise to fame coincided with the sport’s growth.
Even if you don’t watch volleyball religiously, you surely know the name Alyssa Valdez. Going
beyond her role as a national athlete, she has become a household name in the Philippines,
showcasing her Influence beyond the court.

Without a doubt, Alyssa Valdez is the face of Philippine volleyball. Let’s look back on how she
earned this title.

In her UAAP career as an Ateneo Lady Eagle, she truly stood out, even playing with a group
dubbed the ‘Fab Five.’ She won many awards as a college player. In the UAAP alone, she won
the Rookie of the Year, Most Valuable Player, Best Attacker, Best Scorer, and Finals MVP
awards, among multiple others, and led her team to back-to-back championships.
At the time, more competitions were also being established, bringing even more attention to the
sport. Playing in the Shakey’s V-League as a college athlete, she won the MVP award on
multiple occasions and even became champion with Ateneo.

Her talent was undeniable, and because her rise to the top coincided with the country’s growing
passion for volleyball, the name Alyssa Valdez became synonymous with the sport.

Moving her influence to the professional scene

When Alyssa Valdez hung up her Ateneo jersey, she concluded her time in the UAAP with her
third MVP title. But her career was just getting started, and thankfully, this again coincided with
the rise of a new stage.

In the early days of volleyball’s rise to fame among Filipino sports fans, the collegiate scene was
all there really was. The Shakey’s V-League, for instance, used to be an intercollegiate league.
But, given the popularity of UAAP and NCAA tournaments, it eventually evolved into what we
now know as the Premier Volleyball League — a pro league for the country’s best players.

Here is a list of the volleyball material and equipment that you may need to play.
Volleyball balls.
Volleyball shorts.
Volleyball t-shirts.
Volleyball shoes.
Volleyball braces, sleeves and pads.
Volleyball court.
Volleyball net and poles.
Volleyball penalty cards.
To play volleyball, you will need a volleyball net, two poles to hold up the net, and a ball. Many
players prefer to wear knee and elbow pads to provide protection when digging or diving for the
ball.

The main components of a Volleyball are the bladder, the leather, and the glue. Rubber Bladder:
Polyisobutylene, also known as “PIB” or polyisobutylene, (C4H8)n, is the homopolymer of
isobutylene, or 2-methyl-1-propene, on which butyl rubber is based.

The 6 skills in volleyball with definition?

The following are described: serving, passing (forearm underhand passing), setting (overhead
passing), attack options (hitting/spiking), blocking (from attack and defend positions), and
defensive skills (rolling & sliding).

A basic volleyball team has six players on the court, and each member must shift one position
clockwise each time their side gets back service from the opponent. Only the three players at the
net positions have the power to jump, spike, or block close to the net.

Assignment

What is volleyball
History of volleyball
Equipments used in volleyball
Favorite volleyball player
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men’s
Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was designed as an indoor sport
for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous
History of volleyball: From humble beginnings to a global sport
Originally called mintonette, the origin of volleyball can be traced back to 1895 in
Massachusetts, USA. It was created by American William G. Morgan.

For a sport that has been around for over a century, the origin of volleyball traces its roots to a
rather humble beginning.

History has it that William G. Morgan, who invented the game of volleyball in 1895, came up
with the idea so that people who found basketball’s ‘bumping’ or ‘jolting’ too strenuous could
have an alternative physical activity to fall back on.

William G. Morgan, who served as the physical director at the Young Men’s Christian
Association (YMCA) Holyoke, Massachusetts, looked at the sports around and picked the
aspects that he thought suited his brief the best.

The ball came from baske`tball, the net from tennis and the use of hands from handball. While
this made up a game of volleyball, it was lent some competitive tone with the introduction of
innings – later to be called sets – that was borrowed from baseball.

Morgan introduced the sport – called mintonette, the original name of volleyball – at the YMCA
Physical Director’s Conference a year later at Springfield College, Massachusetts.

“In search of an appropriate game, tennis occurred to me, but this required rackets, balls, a net
and other equipment, so it was eliminated, but the idea of a net seemed a good one,” Morgan
explained. “We raised [the net] to a height of… just above the head of an average man. We
needed a ball and among those we tried was a basketball bladder, but this was too light and too
slow. We therefore tried the basketball itself, which was too big and too heavy.”

A new specially designed ball, which was lighter and smaller, was introduced in 1900.
Though it was incomplete with no fixed rules and a format to follow, the sport did enough to win
over the delegation and soon became a part of YMCA’s wide network throughout the USA with a
new name - volley ball (initially it was termed as two words). Volleyball was officially selected
to spell as a single word in 1952.

A sport that traced its origin to basketball, baseball, tennis and handball – and now estimated to
be played by over 800 million globally – had thus been established.