Adamson Woman Falcons’ Shaina Nitura throughout a UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball sport. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
For a younger participant simply beginning her profession, Shaina Nitura has proven quite a lot of maturity in the way in which she has been offering for Adamson within the UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball event.
After a stellar debut the place Nitura simply shattered the rookie scoring report, the college’s homegrown expertise skilled her greatest problem but as she watched her Hovering Falcons get swept by powerhouse La Salle of their final sport.
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It is likely to be drawing from her youthful vitality however Nitura seems to be at that impediment as a crucial evil to assist her crew be even higher.
“We’ve got to undergo these sorts of issues [losses] as a result of we are able to’t be taught if we gained’t expertise these challenges,” Nitura mentioned after powering Adamson as soon as extra in a 25-20, 25-15, 25-12 drubbing of College of the East on Wednesday at Mall of Asia Area.
“If we don’t get to know loss, how will we get to know win, proper?” she added after dropping 18 factors out of 16 assaults, a block and an ace other than 11 glorious digs to assist the Falcons enhance to a 2-1 (win-loss) report.
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The rookie Falcon has been proving her value of their three video games right here exhibiting simply why she is the captain of the crew that misplaced quite a lot of expertise from final season.
Brick wall
For her opening act within the collegiate degree, Nitura erupted for 33 factors to tug the rug from underneath Ateneo earlier than Adamson hit a brick wall within the Angel Canino-led Woman Spikers, the place she was restricted to 16 factors.
However that early problem was welcomed by Nitura as she remained composed in making an attempt to convey her college again to the successful column reverse the Woman Warriors.
“There was no additional motivation in the present day. How we confronted La Salle and Ateneo and the way we’ll stand in entrance of the opposite groups we’ll face, it might be the identical approach,” she mentioned. “Perhaps if we have now to enhance on one thing from the final sport, it might be the extent of our starvation [to get the win].”
“We’ll modify that but it surely’s not a motive. We must be hungry, win or lose, so we should always simply be constant.”
This similar maturity is what coach JP Yude noticed in Nitura and what the remainder of the league can see and so it’s no marvel why he has his full belief in his ace.
“No. 1 factor that I see in Shaina is her management. As soon as that will get constructed on her, she is going to develop into different issues like the right way to deal with issues inside and outdoors the courtroom alongside together with her teammates,” Yude mentioned. “She’s dominant there and even in her sport.”
“So long as she turns into the suitable chief and instance to her teammates out and in of the courtroom with the way in which she handles issues, particularly strain as a result of there are quite a lot of expectations,” Yude added. “However I at all times remind her to only be herself and play the way in which that she actually is.”
