Haydee Ong, who calls the photographs for defending UAAP girls’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 raring to supply an avenue for the nation’s girls’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 girls’s basketball league of MPBL founder and former Senator Manny Pacquiao, who fashioned the home-and-away format match for the homegrown skills seven years in the past.
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“Yung love ko talaga for ladies’s basketball, I feel, yun yung bakit ko tinanggap is to offer a brand new platform for ladies’s basketball after collegiate talaga,” the UAAP Season 86 champion coach instructed reporters. “The extra league na ganito, mas marami tayong made-develop for the ladies’s nationwide group.”
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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 Items in a single-round robin format, the place the highest 4 groups will advance to the semifinals.
Video games can 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 aspect, talagang aayusin namin para maganda yung kakalabasan ng mga laro ng babae,” stated Ong. “Talagang gusto ko paglaruin yung mga babae to showcase their expertise.”
“Might mga kontrata na puproteksyunan yung babae talaga doon sa mga organizer na ayoko ng could mga na nababalita na sugal-sugal. So, pinatanggal ko yung Fiba livestats dito sa inaugural.”
Ong admitted that it gained’t be simple balancing the WMPBL and her teaching gig at UST with the Tigresses reserving a spot within the Remaining 4 with a 9-1 report of their title-retention bid.
However she’s proud of the help proven by the varsity, which can be one of many eight groups within the WMPBL with Allana Lim and Arsenio Dysangco calling the photographs.
“I’m so comfortable kasi tinext ako ni Father Rodel (Cansancio) and he congratulated me and sabi niya all for ladies’s basketball, UST is behind you. So, ganun ka-suporta yung UST for ladies’s basketball,” she stated. “This isn’t just for UST anymore. Greater 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 house of the ladies’s basketball gamers as soon as they graduate from the collegiate degree.
“I feel with the help of Senator Manny na naniwala siya na marami ng kababaihan na gusto maglaro ng basketball,” Ong stated “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 group. Marami pang mangyayari however on the inaugural stage ng WMPBL, yun yung plano muna is to start out small from January to April.”
