Flashback to UAAP Season 77 as these Eagles flock to a sister home.
UAAP Season 77, is that you?
It's feeling like 2015 all over again as Alyssa Valdez welcomes some familiar faces to her volleyball team.
Many-time PVL champion Creamline join in on the offseason fun, announcing Bea de Leon and Dennise Lazaro-Revilla as new Cool Smashers for the 2024 season, picking them up for sister team Choco Mucho.
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Naturally, there's history with De Leon and Lazaro-Revilla, together with Valdez, as all of them were members of the vaunted Ateneo Lady Eagles that saw action in UAAP Season 77. That team famously swept the whole season, a clean 16-0 run for the title.
Creamline, who coincidentally also swept the most-recent PVL conference and won the Finals at the expense of Choco Mucho, is primed for a reload.
Despite an impressive showing in the 2nd All-Filipino Conference, the Cool Smashers lost star setter Jia Morado-De Guzman and star middle blocker Ced Domingo, both chasing international glory in Japan and Thailand respectively.
The arrival of BDL and Den should help offset the losses for Creamline, as the Cool Smashers prepare to defend two championships next season.
Check out the summary of off-season PVL moves here.