Shakey's V-League

Shakey's V-League
Current season, competition or edition: Shakey's V-League 12th Season Reinforced Open Conference
The premiere volleyball league in the Philippines
Sport	Volleyball
Founded	2004
Inaugural season	2004
No. of teams	6
Country	Philippines
Venue(s)	Filoil Flying V Arena
Most recent champion(s)	PLDT Home Ultera (2nd title)
Most titles	UST Tigresses (6 titles)
TV partner(s)	GMA News TV (local)^[1] GMA Pinoy TV (international)
Founder	Jun Bernardino
Official website	www.v-league.ph

The Shakey's V-League is a women's volleyball league in the Philippines that has been active since 2004. It began as a women's collegiate league with teams coming from the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Cebu Schools Athletic Foundation (CESAFI), among others. Since 2011, corporate club and other non-collegiate teams have also participated the league.

A men's division was included in its 21st conference (2014). It served as the precursor of the Spikers' Turf, the following year.^[2]^[3]^[4]

On October 10, 2014, it was reported^[5] that the league had agreed to be regulated by the Philippine Volleyball Federation during a meeting held October 8, 2014.

History

The league was established in 2004 by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. (Sports Vision) and sponsor Shakey's Pizza Philippines (International Family Foods, Inc.). Sports Vision was founded by a group led by former PBA commissioner Jun Bernardino and is currently headed by chairman Moying Martelino and president Ricky Palou.

Highlights

The UST Tigresses won the inaugural V-League championship in 2004 defeating the La Salle Lady Archers. But the De La Salle University have won the next three conferences of the said league defeating their arch-rivals, UST Tigresses in both conferences of Season 2 and SSC - R Lady Stags in Season 3, sweeping them both in the Finals of the three conferences.

The UST Tigresses returned to the League in 2007, after missing Season 3, winning both conferences of Season 4 by defeating the SSC-R Lady Stags in both finals series.

Year 2008 saw the crowning of two other schools aside from UST and DLSU. Adamson University won the championship in the first conference of Season 5 defeating the Ateneo Lady Eagles while San Sebastian College-Recoletos Lady Stags won the second conference of season 5 by sweeping the two comebacking champion teams: DLSU Lady Archers in the semifinals and UST Tigresses in the finals.

However, the Tigresses made history via a "three-peat" winning their fourth, fifth and sixth championships by sweeping both conferences of Season 6 by defeating SSC-R and Adamson, respectively in both championship series, and again winning the first conference of Season 7 by beating SSC-R for the fourth time in the finals.

It was the battle of the runners-up of the last two conferences when Adamson University faced the Lady Stags of SSC-R in the finals of the 2nd Conference Season 7. Adamson won its second V-League crown after defeating San Sebastian 2-1 in their Finals series.

In the 1st Conference Season 8, the Ateneo Lady Eagles won their first Shakey's V-League crown by thumping defending champions Adamson in the Finals. The 2nd Conference of Season 8 was renamed the Shakey's V-League Open Conference as it was opened to non-school teams. Four non-school teams joined the tournament, namely, the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force and Maynilad. The Philippine Army won their first Shakey's V-League championship. Season 8-Open Conference, Shakey's V-League will also aired on GMA Life TV, GMA News TV and GMA Pinoy TV for the international viewers.

Season 9 was locally aired on AKTV on IBC13 and Hyper Cable channel.

Starting from its 10th Season, Shakey's V-League's new broadcasting partner is now GMA News TV channel 11. All of the matches are aired at 1PM to 3PM during weekdays, and 12:45PM to 2:30PM during Saturdays. On May 26, 2013, Shakey's V-League held its first Live TV Coverage via GMA News TV. It is also announced that the Game 3 matches, both for Championship and the Battle for 3rd will be aired live on GMA News TV on June 2, 2013. In Season 10 Open Conference, Cagayan Valley made history as the Lady Rising Suns scored a 16-0 sweep en route to the team's first V-League title with a 2-0 series win over Smart-Maynilad Net Spikers. On October 2, 2014, it was reported^[6] that a men's division will be included in its 21st conference with four teams.

Current teams and coaches

For the Shakey's V-League 12th Season Reinforced Open Conference:

Kia Forte - Oliver Almadro
Philippine Army Lady Troopers - Sgt. Emilio "Kung Fu" Reyes Jr.
Philippine Coast Guard Lady Dolphins - Butch Ordon
Philippine Navy Lady Sailors - PO3 Zenaida "Nene" Ybañez-Chavez
PLDT Home Ultera Ultra Fast Hitters - Roger Gorayeb
UP Lady Maroons - Jerry Yee

Inactive teams

Collegiate

Adamson Lady Falcons - Sherwin Meneses
Arellano Lady Chiefs - Obet Javier
Ateneo Lady Eagles - Anusorn Bundit
CSB Lady Blazers - Michael Cariño
De La Salle University-Dasmarinas Lady Patriots - Raymond Ramirez
FEU Lady Tamaraws - Shaq delos Santos
Letran Lady Knights - Brian Esquibel
Lyceum Lady Pirates - Emil Lontoc
De La Salle Lady Archers - Ramil de Jesus
NU Lady Bulldogs - Roger Gorayeb
PCU Lady Dolphins
San Sebastian Lady Stags - Clint Malazo/Roger Gorayeb
PUP Lady Radicals - Wendell Padilla
SWU Lady Cobras - Jordan Paca
St. Louis University Lady Navigators - Henry Fuentes
TIP Lady Engineers - Achilles Paril
University of Batangas Lady Brahmans - Ahmed Aylion
UE Lady Warriors - Francis Vicente
Perpetual Help Lady Altas - Sammy Acaylar
University of San Carlos Lady Warriors - Norvie Labuga
USJ-R Lady Jaguars - Grace Antigua
USLS Lady Stingers - Roger Banzuela
UST Tigresses - Emilio "Kungfu" Reyes

Corporate/Club

Davao Lady Agilas - Shane Alagao
Maynilad Water Dragons
Smart/Maynilad Net Spikers
Philippine Air Force Air Spikers - Clarence Esteban
Phiippine National Police Lady Patrollers - Argie Dave
Sandugo/SSC-R Lady Conquerors - Roger Gorayeb
Cagayan Valley Lady Rising Suns - Ernesto Pamilar
MERALCO Power Spikers - Brian Esquibel
Baguio City Summer Spikers - Henry Fuentes
Fourbees-Perpetual Help - Sammy Acaylar

Men's Division

Instituto Estetico Manila Volley Masters - Jun Balubar
Systema Active Smashers - Arnold Laniog
Rizal Technological University Blue Thunder - George Pascua
FEU Tamaraws - Kid Santos

Special teams

PSC Lady Legends — Ramon Suzara
Smart All-Stars — Roger Gorayeb
Shakey's All-Stars — Nes Pamilar
Malaysia Club Team-MAS Club — Mohd Shaili Sukor
Vietsovpetro — Aleksey Diva

Championship results

Further information: Shakey's V-League conference results

The UST Tigresses have the most number of championships (six), followed by the DLSU Lady Spikers (three). The Adamson Lady Falcons, Ateneo Lady Eagles, NU Lady Bulldogs, Philippine Army Lady Troopers and Cagayan Valley Lady Rising Suns have won two championships each. The PLDT Home Ultera Fast Hitters, San Sebastian Lady Stags, Vietsovpetro (VIE), Sandugo-San Sebastian, FEU Lady Tamaraws and the Smart All Stars each have one championship.

Season	Conference	Final			Third place match
Season	Conference	Champions	Score	Runners-up	3rd place	Score	4th place
1	1st (Details)	UST	3–1 3–1	La Salle	Lyceum	3–?	SSC–R
2	1st (Details)	La Salle	3–2 3–?	UST	Letran	3–?	PSC
2	2nd (Details)	La Salle	3–1 3–1	UST	SSC–R	3–?	Ateneo
3	1st (Details)	La Salle	3–0 3–1	SSC–R	Adamson	3–?	Lyceum
4	1st (Details)	UST	3–0 3–1	SSC–R	Lyceum	3–0	La Salle
4	2nd (Details)	UST	2–3 3–0 3–2	SSC–R	Ateneo	3–1 3–0	Adamson
5	1st (Details)	Adamson	3–1 3–0	Ateneo	SSC–R	3–0 3–0	Lyceum
5	2nd (Details)	SSC–R	3–0 3–1	UST	La Salle	2–3 3–1 3–?	Adamson
6	1st (Details)	UST	0–3 3–0 3–0	SSC–R	Adamson	3–1 3–0	FEU
6	2nd (Details)	UST	3–1 3–1	Adamson	FEU	3–2 3–2	SSC–R
7	1st (Details)	UST	3–1 2–3 3–1	SSC–R	Ateneo	3–2 3–0	Lyceum
7	2nd (Details)	Adamson	3–2 1–3 3–0	SSC–R	Lyceum	3–0 3–1	FEU
8	1st (Details)	Ateneo	3–1 3–2	Adamson	USLS	3–1 3–0	NU
8	Open (Details)	Philippine Army Lady Troopers	3–0 3–2	SSC–R	Ateneo	3–2 3–2	Philippine Navy
8	SEA Club Invitational (Details)	Vietsovpetro	3–0 3–2	Philippine Army Lady Troopers	Malaysia Club	3–0	Ateneo
9	1st (Details)	Ateneo	1–3 3–1 3–2	UST	SSC–R	3–2 3–1	UPHSD
9	Open (Details)	Sandugo SSC–R	3–2 3–0	Cagayan Valley UPHSD	Philippine Army	2–3 3–0 Army clinches 3rd by tiebreak	Ateneo
10	1st (Details)	NU	0–3 3–0 3–1	Ateneo	UST	2–3 3–1 3–1	Adamson
10	Open (Details)	Cagayan Valley	3–2 3–2	Smart-Maynilad	Philippine Army	3–0 3–1	Philippine Air Force
10	All Star (Details)	Smart All Stars	3–2	Shakey's All Stars
11	1st (Details)	FEU	3–0 3–0	NU	Adamson	3–1 3–0	UST
11	Open (Details)	Philippine Army	3–0 3–0	Cagayan Valley	PLDT	1–3 3–0 PLDT clinches 3rd by tiebreak	Philippine Air Force
11	Reinforced Open (Details)	Cagayan Valley	3–1 3–2	Philippine Army	PLDT	3–2 3–2	MERALCO
12	Open (Details)	PLDT	1–3 3–1 3–2	Philippine Army	Cagayan Valley	3–0 3–1	MERALCO
12	Collegiate (Details)	NU	0–3 3–0 3–0	Ateneo	FEU	3–1 3–0	UST
12	Reinforced Open (Details)	PLDT	3–2 3–1	Philippine Army	UP	3–1 3–1	Philippine Navy

Team rankings

As of the 10th Season of the respected league. Placing was used to determine the rankings of the schools that have not made the top 3 in any conference once.

Rank	Team	Attendance (out of 17)	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Success Rate
1	UST Tigresses	12 (67.67%)	6	4	2	11	50.00%
2	De La Salle Lady Archers	7 (38.89%)	3	1	1	5	42.86%
3	Adamson Lady Falcons	13 (70.588%)	2	2	4	8	15.38%
4	Ateneo Lady Eagles	17 (94.44%)	2	3	3	8	11.76%
5	San Sebastian Lady Stags	17 (88.235%)	1	7	3	11	5.88%
6	Philippine Army	4 (22.22%)	2	4	2	8	25.000%
7	Cagayan Valley Lady Rising Suns	2 (11.11%)	2	2	1	5	50.000%
8	NU Lady Bulldogs	6 (33.33%)	2	1	0	3	16.67%
9	FEU Lady Tamaraws	17 (94.44%)	1	0	3	4	5.88%
10	Vietsovpetro	1 (5.56%)	1	0	0	1	100%
11	Sandugo- SSC–R Lady Conquerors	1 (5.56%)	1	0	0	1	100%
12	Smart-Maynilad	1 (5.56%)	0	1	0	1	0%
12	PLDT Home Telpad Turbo Boosters	1 (5.56%)	2	0	2	4	0%
13	Lyceum Lady Pirates	13 (72.22%)	0	0	3	3	0%
14-16	MAS Club	1 (5.56%)	0	0	1	1	0%
14-16	USLS Lady Stingers	3 (16.67%)	0	0	1	1	0%
14-16	Arellano Lady Chiefs	2(11.11%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	De La Salle University-Dasmarinas Lady Patriots	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	Maynilad Water Dragons	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	PCU Dolphins	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	Philippine Air Force Airwomen	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	Philippine National Police Lady Patrollers	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	Philippine Navy Lady Sailors	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	Philippine Sports Commission Lady Legends	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	UE Lady Warriors	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
17-26	University of San Carlos Lady Warriors	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
27	UP Lady Maroons	2 (11.11%)	0	0	1	1	0%
28-29	SWU Lady Cobras	3 (16.67%)	0	0	0	0	0%
28-29	USJ-R Lady Jaguars	3 (16.67%)	0	0	0	0	0%
30	Perpetual Help Lady Altas	6 (33.33%)	0	0	0	0	0%
31	CSB Lady Blazers	8 (44.44%)	0	0	0	0	0%
32-34	Davao Lady Agilas	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
32-34	Meralco Power Spikers	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
32-34	St. Louis University Lady Navigators	1 (5.56%)	0	0	0	0	0%
Rank	All-Star Team	Attendance (out of 1)	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Success Rate
1	Smart All-Stars	1 (100.000%)	1	0	0	1	100%
2	Shakey's All-Stars	1 (100.000%)	0	0	0	0	0%

Rivalries

The Rivalries between teams has been the most awaited scene among all sporting events; the Shakey's V-League also shares the hype of collegiate and league rivalries. For 11 seasons, the league has witnessed the best teams collide and battle their way out to victory, resulting to frequent exchanges in and out of the court. The following are the most watched and popular rivalries in the league.

UST-La Salle Rivalry

One of the most interesting and most popular rivalry that started it all was with the UST Tigresses and the De La Salle Lady Spikers. Their rivalry started in their mother league the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) being the recent Champion and Runners-up back in 2002-2003. These two teams battled it out in 3 finals bout during the first expansion of the league. The UST Tigresses won the inaugural conference of the league but failed to defend it as De La Salle would beat them twice in a row that started their 3-peat championship streak(Season 2 1st & 2nd Conference and Season 3). The rivalry would eventually falter as De La Salle has not participated since the 1st Conference of the 5th Season.

UST-SSC-R Rivalry

This rivalry was one of the most celebrated as these two teams belonged to two of the premier collegiate leagues in the Philippines the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Shakey's V-league's 4th season would mark the start of the UST-SSC-R rivalry. They would eventually meet five times in the championship round of the league, UST would win four of the five championships (Season 4 1st & 2nd, Season 6 1st and Season 7 1st Conferences) and SSC-R would carry their sole victor against UST(Season 5 2nd Conference). The rivalry is still one of the most watched as different Guest Players (GP) specially those from the UST Tigresses would surprise the crowd playing for the opponent's team (Roces Season 6-7, R. De Leon & Dimaculangan Season 9 Open Conference, Banaticla Season 11 1st Conference). Today's rivalry between the two is not as loud as it was in the past, it could be because of the decreasing level of play of both UST and SSC-R during the recent years.

Upcoming Rivalries

Smart-Shakey's All-Star Rivalry

As the Yolanda victims battle the fury of nature's wrath, the Shakey's V-league has established the All-star weekend similar to the all-star events of the European Volleyball Circuit. This event was made to gather monetary fund to help the victims of the typhoon. Although the reason for this event was for the victims of Yolanda, it's said to be an annual event to exhibit the best of the best of Philippine Volleyball. Smart All-stars would be the victor of its inaugural game. Although premature, fans are excited to see this expansion.

Playing venues

At present, games are held at the Filoil Flying V Arena. During the semi-final to championship rounds of Season 10, games were held on the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay and in the iconic Philsports Arena in Pasig to accommodate larger attendance.

Past venues included the Lyceum of the Philippines University gymnasium, the Blue Eagle Gym and the Rizal Memorial Coliseum.

Broadcast partners

Local

The television rights to cover the volleyball games were transferred to TV network GMA News TV from TV5/AKTV. A contract was signed in 2013.

IBC-13 (2004–05)
TV5/AKTV on IBC-13 (2005–06;2012–2013)
NBN/PTV–4 (2007–2011)
Hyper (2012–2013)
GMA News TV (2013–present)^[7]

International

GMA Life TV (2011–present)
GMA Pinoy TV (2011–present)
GMA News TV International (2011–present)

Current Broadcast Team (GMA News TV)

Play-by-Play Commentators

Sev Sarmenta
Noel Zarate
Ronnie Magsanoc

Analysts

Mozzy Ravena
Anne Remulla-Canda
Noreen Go
Ivy Remulla

Courtside Reporter

Rheena Villamor
Miakka Lim
Judy Saril
Tricia Robredo
Kristelle Batchellor

Former Play-by-Play Commentator

Andrei Felix

Former Analysts

Michele Gumabao

Former Courtside Reporter

Bianca Saldua
AJ Pareja

References

External links

Shakey's V-League (12th Season, Reinforced Open Conference)

Women's:

Conferences	2004–05 (1st - 2nd) 2005–06 (1st - 2nd) 2006 2007 (1st - 2nd) 2008 (1st - 2nd) 2009 (1st - 2nd) 2010 (1st - 2nd) 2011 (1st - Open - SEA Club Invitational) 2012 (1st - 2nd) 2013 (1st - Open - All Star) 2014 (1st - Open - Reinforced) 2015 (Open - Collegiate - Reinforced)

Related links	Awards Conference results Notable records Players

Volleyball in the Philippines

National teams	Men's Women's U23

League competitions	NCAA Volleyball Championship (Philippines) Philippine Super Liga PVF-Cantada Beach Volleyball Shakey's V-League Spikers' Turf UAAP Volleyball Championship

Federations	LVPI PVF

Organizations	Beach Volleyball Republic

List of V-League players List of Super Liga players

Sports teams and leagues based in and around Metro Manila

Leagues	Baseball Baseball Philippines Basketball Philippine Basketball Association PBA D-League ASEAN Basketball League Football United Football League Volleyball Shakey's V-League Philippine Super Liga Spikers' Turf Collegiate sports CUSA NAASCU NCAA NCRAA SCUAA UCAA UAAP WNCAA MNCAA

Basketball	PBA All teams PBA D-League All teams ABL AirAsia Philippine Patriots San Miguel Beermen

Baseball	Baseball Philippines Alabang Tigers Forward Taguig Patriots Manila Sharks

Football	United Football League Green Archers United Kaya Loyola Manila Jeepney Pachanga Diliman Philippine Army Team Socceroo

Collegiate sports	NCAA All teams UAAP All teams

Sports leagues in the Philippines

Baseball	Baseball Philippines

Basketball	Philippine Basketball Association (D-League) Countrywide Basketball League Philippine Collegiate Champions League Filsports Basketball Association Pilipinas Commercial Basketball League Philippine Secondary Schools Basketball Championship

Football	United Football League

Volleyball	Philippine Super Liga Shakey's V-League Spikers' Turf

Collegiate leagues	UAAP NCAA UCAA NCRAA NAASCU CUSA CESAFI UCLAA WNCAA MNCAA PRISSAA SCUAA COSAA ISSA LCUAA

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