La Salle’s Shevana Laput wins the Shakey’s Tremendous League Nationwide Invitationals MVP. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines — Shevana Laput is honored to have the ability to make an enormous leap from a task participant throughout her rookie yr to a Most Priceless Participant to assist La Salle sans Angel Canino rule the Shakey’s Tremendous League Nationwide Invitationals.
The 6-foot-2 reverse spiker capped her spectacular stint together with her first MVP award, ending a game-high 13 factors in a do-or-die Sport 3 as La Salle accomplished a Finals collection comeback with a 25-19, 25-22, 25-17 win over Adamson on Sunday at FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan Metropolis.
However her emergence as an MVP is only a reminder to proceed stepping up for the Girl Spikers and work more durable.
“It’s actually nice. It’s wonderful. It’s an honor, like I stated. However I assume this makes me really feel like I have to step up much more. I have to work even more durable, you understand, now that there’s ‘popularity’ form of factor,” stated Laput.
The Filipino-Australian spiker, who averaged 20.3 factors per sport within the best-of-three finals collection, deflected the credit score to her teammates with setter Julia Coronel additionally stepping as much as tempo center blockers Amie Provido and Thea Gagate in addition to outdoors spiker Alleiah Malaluan.
“I really feel honored however like I stated, it was all due to my teammates. My teammates gave me that belief, they gave me that bose to hit they usually gave the assist. I might swing realizing that they’re there overlaying (for) me,” she stated.
“I used to be and I wasn’t (shocked with the MVP award). Earlier than, all my ates have been like ‘Shev, it’s you, everyone knows that’ however I imply it kinda is sensible these so many Participant of the Video games. However nonetheless, it doesn’t imply I’m gonna get the MVP. However, it was a shock then it wasn’t.”
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La Salle’s Shevana Laput within the Shakey’s Tremendous League Nationwide Invitationals finals Sport 1. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Even her profession sport of 30 factors went for naught after La Salle’s five-set collapse in Sport 1, Laput took issues into her personal arms within the do-or-die Sport 2 with a team-high 18 factors to comb Adamson in straight units and drive a rubber match.
She remained assured that her workforce will win all of it.
“I knew as a workforce that we’ll gonna get there. We labored onerous and regardless that there was a loss, we nonetheless labored onerous even after that. We developed our abilities so I knew that that was coming,” she stated.
After her breakthrough, the 19-year-old Laput anticipates that she will likely be a marked spiker heading to La Salle’s title protection in Season 86 subsequent yr, promising that she received’t cease enhancing.
“It’s simply adjusting once more. I’ll nonetheless enhance as a participant in order that they can even have to–like folks additionally want to regulate to me nonetheless. However, it’s simply me enjoying as myself,” Laput stated.
“Actually, on like– the TV on stats, it’s good however I do know in myself that I might be so significantly better. That’s not the perfect model of me and there’s nonetheless a lot extra that I have to do. I’ll say like 6/10.”
“We have to defend the crown. Maintain it in Taft so we’ll all gonna work more durable, smarter, (and) puso,” she added.
Shevana Laput after successful her first MVP and serving to La Salle rule the #sslnationalinvitationals
Posted by Inquirer Sports activities on Sunday, August 13, 2023
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