Bang Pineda pulls from experience as a player in helping guide Adamson Lady Falcons

Treating her gamers like teammates makes Bang Pineda’s job as an assistant coach for the Adamson Girl Falcons’ simpler.

In her first teaching gig within the collegiate ranks, Pineda has been instilling within the younger Girl Falcons not to think about her as one in every of JP Yude’s assistant coaches however deal with her as a teammate for them to construct a stronger coach-player bond.

“I’m simply having fun with [my new job] and each time I’m with the gamers as a result of I deal with them as teammates in order that they gained’t be shy to ask for assist,” stated Pineda in Filipino.

“Like what I do to my teammates, I inform them the lapses I noticed from the sidelines and I share the issues they’ll do to handle it.”

The previous Adamson spiker, who performed within the UAAP from 2010 to 2014, relished the chance to serve her alma mater in a special capability. She helps out coach Yude in rebuilding the Girl Falcons, who’re ushering in a brand new period after the departure of a number of key gamers.

STAYING PATIENT

Pineda, who’s now the libero of Akari within the Premier Volleyball League, admitted that it was onerous having to remain on the sidelines after first, feeling the urge to wish to enter the courtroom and play to assist her crew.

However because the Shakey’s Tremendous League Nationwide Invitationals marketing campaign glided by, Pineda grew to become extra affected person and has adjusted to her new position as an assistant coach.

“Throughout our first few video games, it felt like I wished to play contained in the courtroom to assist them,” she stated in Filipino. “However now, I already managed my feelings as a result of I’m additionally taking good care of the statistics throughout video games so I may also help in coach Yude’s enter.”

For the 32-year-old Pineda, it has not been onerous to deal with the resilient bunch of Lucille Almonte and the remainder of the crew, who surprised La Salle in 5 units final Wednesday in Sport 1 of the Nationwide Invitationals Finals.

“I’m so pleased as a result of the gamers are positively taking the recommendation from us, coaches. They didn’t again down they usually performed their hearts out and fought bravely,” she stated after the Girl Falcons overcame an 11-20 deficit within the fourth set earlier than upsetting the UAAP champion.

Preserving Adamson’s contender standing within the UAAP ladies’s volleyball event isn’t a stroll within the park for a crew that misplaced the core of the Season 85 bronze medalist bannered by Louie Romero, Kate Santiago, Trisha Tubu, and three different Girl Falcons, who adopted the go well with of coach Jerry Yee after his elimination from the put up.

However the Philippine ladies’s volleyball crew participant is fortunate to have fellow Adamsonian and former UAAP gamers, Yude and Leo Miranda, as coaches of the Girl Falcons.

“It feels good that we had been taking part in for our faculty earlier than and now we’re teaching the crew collectively. We’ve got the identical concepts and we keep away from misunderstandings,” Pineda stated.

Pineda can also be having fun with sporting two hats as a PVL participant for the Akari Chargers and as an assistant coach for the Girl Falcons.

“It doesn’t create any battle as a result of I practice with Akari within the morning and with Adamson within the afternoon. I’ve an opportunity to relaxation in between. I get pleasure from engaged on these two jobs,” she stated.

Adamson tries to win its first championship underneath the brand new system of Yude and his teaching employees when it weapons for a sequence sweep towards La Salle in Sport 2 on Saturday at 4 p.m.

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