Haydee Ong, who calls the photographs for defending UAAP ladies’s basketball champion UST Tigresses, has been appointed commissioner of the Girls’s Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (WMPBL).–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines — College of Santo Tomas Growling Tigresses coach Haydee Ong is keen to offer an avenue for the nation’s ladies’s basketball gamers with the assistance of the Girls’s Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (WMPBL), which inaugurates on January 19, 2025.
Ong was named WMPBL commissioner to supervise the primary ladies’s basketball league of MPBL founder and former Senator Manny Pacquiao, who fashioned the home-and-away format match for the homegrown abilities seven years in the past.
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“Yung love ko talaga for girls’s basketball, I feel, yun yung bakit ko tinanggap is to provide a brand new platform for girls’s basketball after collegiate talaga,” the UAAP Season 86 champion coach informed reporters. “The extra league na ganito, mas marami tayong made-develop for the ladies’s nationwide workforce.”
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The WMPBL commissioner seeks to “begin small” as she eyes eight groups from 4 UAAP faculties and 4 ball golf equipment to characterize the Native Authorities Models in a single-round robin format, the place the highest 4 groups will advance to the semifinals.
Video games might be held at Filoil EcoOil Heart as Ong gained’t use the home-and-away format within the league’s inauguration, placing a premium first on the officiating — additionally hoping to have extra feminine referees.
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“Gusto kong makita talaga magandang officiating. That’s why, on the technical facet, talagang aayusin namin para maganda yung kakalabasan ng mga laro ng babae,” mentioned Ong. “Talagang gusto ko paglaruin yung mga babae to showcase their abilities.”
“Could mga kontrata na puproteksyunan yung babae talaga doon sa mga organizer na ayoko ng might mga na nababalita na sugal-sugal. So, pinatanggal ko yung Fiba livestats dito sa inaugural.”
Ong admitted that it gained’t be straightforward balancing the WMPBL and her teaching gig at UST with the Tigresses reserving a spot within the Ultimate 4 with a 9-1 document of their title-retention bid.
However she’s pleased with the assist proven by the college, which might be one of many eight groups within the WMPBL with Allana Lim and Arsenio Dysangco calling the photographs.
“I’m so completely happy kasi tinext ako ni Father Rodel (Cansancio) and he congratulated me and sabi niya all for girls’s basketball, UST is behind you. So, ganun ka-suporta yung UST for girls’s basketball,” she mentioned. “This isn’t just for UST anymore. Larger image talaga after collegiate nung mga bata saan sila pupunta, na pwede na maging profession. Ito na yung unang platform para sa kanila.”
Ong is assured that the WMPBL would be the residence of the ladies’s basketball gamers as soon as they graduate from the collegiate degree.
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“I feel with the assist of Senator Manny na naniwala siya na marami ng kababaihan na gusto maglaro ng basketball,” Ong mentioned “Doon sa mga personal sectors and LGU, pag kinausap namin, as a result of everyone will give their letter of intent and we’ll filter out kung sino talaga yung mga tao na matitino, na hindi lang fly-by-night na gagawa ng workforce. Marami pang mangyayari however on the inaugural stage ng WMPBL, yun yung plano muna is to begin small from January to April.”
