Together, Daquis and Gonzaga would help the Lady Troopers amass championship after championship and when the lure of playing commercially beckoned, both decided to make the jump together and became the cornerstones of the Cignal HD Spikers in the Philippine Super Liga (PSL). She joined the Lady Troopers and immediately hit it off with her frontline partner and the budding friendship began translating into success on the Taraflex.

Not long after, Gonzaga opted to for a military career path and enlisted in the Army. The Philippine Army (known as the Lady Troopers) emerged as the inaugural titlist and were led by its guest player Daquis, who went on to be named the Finals MVP.

The fourth-place finish was considered by many to be a travesty after the Lady Tamaraws clinched the UAAP the year before.Ĭuriously, Daquis would also miss time that conference due to an ankle sprain.įast forward to 2011 when the first ever Shakey's V-League Open Conference took place with three branches of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) along with a club team representing the Maynilad Water Company mixing it up with collegiate squads reinforced by iconic guest players. In that same Shakey's V-League First Conference in 2009, Far Eastern University (FEU) settled for fourth and were still led by open spiker Rachel Anne Daquis. Gonzaga showed tenacity and determination in her first outings with the Lady Stingers but sprained her ankle in the middle of the tournament and became largely forgotten in USLS' fifth place finish in the conference. Her name was Jovelyn Gonzaga, a student at the Central Philippines University (CPU) and a native of Jordan, Guimaras. In 2009, the USLS Lady Stingers opted to field in two guest players of varying experience degrees in University of Santo Tomas (UST) mainstay Aiza Maizo (an Iloilo City native) and a 17-year-old lefty who was being groomed as a beach volleyball specialist. This marked the first time that guest teams from the Visayas joined the league during its summer competition and naturally it would take awhile for them to get accustomed to the style of play from the top collegiate teams of the metropolis.Ĭoached by legendary mentor Roger Banzuela, some of USLS' varsity members would go on to become staples in the commercial volleyball circuit such as Patty Orendain, April Ross Hingpit, Royce Estampa and Dell Palomata, who is now a member of the latest incarnation of the national team.

La Salle (USLS) made its first appearance in the then fledgling Shakey's V-League along with the University of San Jose-Recoletos from Cebu. LAOAG CITY - In 2008, Bacolod's University of St. The GonzaQuis game: Best friends Jovelyn Gonzaga and Rachel Anne Daquis prepare to face each other You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser

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