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Scoring zero points, Dawn Macandili proves to be La Salle’s biggest star


Dawn Macandili could barely move through the throng of people clogging the entrance to their dugout. It wasn’t just fans impeding her way — there was even a group of La Salle’s men’s basketball players.

Kib Montalbo, Aljun Melecio, and Andrei Caracut did not let the UAAP Season 80 Women’s Volleyball Finals Most Valuable Player go without taking a picture.

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Macandili was aware of her unlikely rise to stardom. Standing at barely five-feet tall and playing a position which doesn’t score points, Macandili isn’t your typical volleyball star.

Unlike Jaja Santiago, Alyssa Valdez, or her teammates Kianna Dy and Majoy Baron, Macandili doesn’t soar over blockers and smash powerful hits.

Macandili literally does all the dirty work, scrapping and willingly throwing herself to the floor to keep points alive.

Through Season 80, Macandili was credited with just two points. She had zero in the Finals.

But she still won Finals MVP as the De La Salle University Lady Spikers swept the Far Eastern University Lady Tamaraws and clinched their 11th title.

While she didn’t win any of the Season 80 regular season awards. Macandili leaves the UAAP with three championships and dozens of floor burns.

“Talagang hindi ko po talaga in-expect na sa akin mapupunta ‘yung Finals MVP kasi nga po non-scoring position,” said Macandili.

“Ako naman po, ginagawa ko lang ‘yung kailangan ng team. ‘Yung pagiging successful ko talagang dahil lang ‘yun sa success ng team.”

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Macandili meekly answered questions from the media in her personal post-game press conference. She looked even smaller next to the Finals MVP trophy as she shrunk in front of reporters.

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But she lit up when asked about her career. Proudly, she proclaimed that staying with La Salle from high school to college was the best decision of her life.

She knows that everything she’s become, she owes to head coach Ramil De Jesus.

“Siguro it’s the best decision I made na mag-La Salle kasi hindi lang ‘yung skills ko ang na-develop ni coach kundi pati ang character ko as a person, inside and outside the court.

“So ayun thankful ako kina coach na dinevelop niya kami na mga players niya not only inside the court but also outside,” the 21-year-old declared.

Written By

Miguel Luis Flores fell face first into sports writing in high sch9l and has never gotten up. He reluctantly stumbled into the volleyball beat when he started with Tiebreaker Times three years ago. Now, he has waded through everything volleyball - from its icky politics to the post-modern art that is Jia Morado's setting.


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