BEAST in ME

PART 3

Congrats Jia, best setter na naman pala siya. Jiamazing as always. Deserve na deserve ang award.

Well, inside and out of the court, Jia is really admirable. Silang dalawa ni Bea actually, may sense mga sinasabi sa mga interviews. Kaya lagi ako nag aabang talaga kapag may mga interview sila.

Hindi lang sila athlete, makikita mo outside the court na may mga advocacy sila. And that is what I admired from both of them.
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JIA POV

First day of training, this time it is the real one. It has been a week since the welcome party they prepared for her. Until now, Jia can still remember what they did to her as a welcome surprise.

At first Jia was just trying to observe her new teammates. Most of them are familiar to her but she never had a chance to somehow play with them or really talk to them personally.

She only had a chance to play against them during her collegiate career. So definitely, a lot had change when it comes to their skills.

But Alyssa, Ella, Mich and Jema, the people she already knows before made it easy for her to get along with her new teammates since they have been with the team for a bit longer already, ahead of her.

When it comes to the hellish training and the system is not new to her because the coach was also her coach during her college years. It was coach Tai.

And somehow that makes Jia feels comfortable knowing that he will still be her coach. Whatever skills and techniques she had with volleyball, greater part of that was because of her mentor, in coach Tai. She owed it to him.

It was coach Tai who definitely pushed her to her limits or even beyond her limits. It was him who instilled to her a spirit of resiliency and heartstrong.

Most of the time, she was in tears during practices because of hard training. And Coach Tai was really hard on her even though he knows that she just recovered from an injury.

That was tough especially during her rookie years. Most of the training she would really cry and vomit. Her knees were always shaking and even swollen due to trainings. But Coach Tai shows no mercy.

But then later on in her career, she recognizes all the sacrifices she did are really worth it. Thanks to Coach Tai, he made her become who she is right now.

Without Coach Tai, there will be no Jiamazing.

JIA: "Ate Ly, ate Ells, punta po ako sa Ateneo ngayon, sasama po ba kayo? Spy na natin ang Choco Mucho team. Hahaha."

They just finished their training and they were fixing their things.

LY: "Sayang Ji. Gustuhin ko man, kaya lang ay may lakad kasi kami ni Manong Kief today. Alam mo na naman baka magtampo na naman ang isang yun kapag hindi ako sumipot sa usapan."

JIA: "Ate Ells ikaw?"

ELLA: "Gusto ko man sila i-spy, si Ly kasi balak na naman akong gawing third wheel sa date niya. Hindi ko nga alam kung third wheel ba ako dun or ako talaga ang gustong makasama ni Manong Kief. Lagi na lang kasi ako sinasama eh."

JIA: "Hahaha. Baka nga po ikaw ang bet niya ate Ells at hindi si ate Ly. Malamang ginagawa lang niyang tulay si ate Ly. Hahahaha. Saan na naman po ang date mo ate Ly?"

LY: "Ewan ko dun sa mokong na yun. Ayaw nga sabihin sakin kung saan kami pupunta."

JIA: "Baka naman magpropose na sayo. Hahahaha."

ELLA: "Nako Jia, baka nga mauna pang ikasal si fafa Von at Lau sa kanilang dalawa. Si Kiefer, ewan. Nganga. Mas mahal pa basketball nun kaysa kay Alyssa."