DOCUMENTS– Chery Tiggo’sJaja Santiago PVL MEDIA
MANILA, Philippines– Jaja Santiago remains component of Chery Tiggo’s schedule for the 2023 Premier Volleyball League All-Filipino Conference but her availability depends upon Saitama Ageo Medics’ destiny in Japan V.League
Chery Tiggo trainer Aaron Velez exposed that the 6-foot-5 center blocker is still provided for the initial meeting as well as can play as soon as she finishes the 2022-23 V.League
“She’s still in our lineup. We talked about that if her schedule fits and if her stint in the V.League finishes early then she can play for us,” Velez stated in Filipino.
The V-League routine period will certainly upright March 26 with the Final Four embeded inApril The Ageo Medics are presently in 5th location with an 11-5 document.
The PVL All-Filipino, on the various other hand, will certainly have its removal round robin from February 4 to March 16 with the semifinals beginning on March 18, while the best-of-three Finals collection is arranged on March 25, 29, as well as if needed, March 30.
The National University standout can play in the Invitationals, the organization’s 2nd meeting that is embeded in June throughout V.League’s offseason. The Reinforced Conference is tentatively arranged in October but if Santiago go back to Japan, she will not be readily available for Chery Tiggo as the 2023-24 period in Japan will certainly open up on the very same month.
“If Jaja comes in, she will be a super plus to our team. We will have a formidable foundation and anchor,” Velez stated.
Velez is solidifying the group’s assumptions on Santiago’s feasible return as he intends to simply use the group make-up they have today– something that they weren’t able to do in in 2015’s Open Conference, where the HD Spikers’ completed in 8th location.
“Coming off from the 2022 [Open Conference], we expected that she will play for us. So I think that’s one thing that we have to [temper] our expectations,” he stated.
Velez will certainly remain to rely upon his vastly-improved center blockers Cza Carandang as well as Roselle Baliton in addition to brand-new hire Seth Rodriguez from Petro Gazz, while Mylene Paat will certainly welcome the management duty as a captain as well as best marker.
Santiago really did not bet the Crossovers last period, complying with a leading 2021 PVL bubble project in Ilocos Norte where she won the meeting as well as Finals MVP as well as led her group to its initial expert champion.
Her just job in the Philippines was throughout the ladies’s nationwide beach ball group’s fourth-place surface in the 31st Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Jaja’s sibling, Dindin Santiago-Manabat, has al
