2024 Premier Volleyball League draft

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2024 Premier Volleyball League Rookie Draft
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General information
Sport Volleyball
Date(s)July 8, 2024
Location Novotel Manila Araneta City, Quezon City
Network(s) One Sports
Overview
23 total selections in 4 rounds
League Premier Volleyball League
Teams12
First selection Thea Gagate
(Zus Coffee Thunderbelles)
Most selections (4) Zus Coffee Thunderbelles
Galeries Tower Highrisers
2025  

The 2024 Premier Volleyball League draft was the inaugural rookie draft for the Premier Volleyball League, the top-level women's professional volleyball league in the Philippines, conducted on July 8, 2024 at Novotel Manila Araneta City in Quezon City. [1]

Contents

The draft was held in the middle of the PVL's 2024 season, after the All-Filipino Conference and before the Reinforced Conference. [2]

Key dates

Table of key dates
EventDate(s)
Submission of applicants' draft requirements.May 19–June 12, 2024
Announcement of the initial list of applicants.June 15, 2024
Combine registration for free agents.June 18–21, 2024
Draft lottery day.June 24, 2024
Rookie draft combineJune 25–26, 2024
PVL Rookie Draft event.July 8, 2024
Contract signing among drafted players.July 8–23, 2024

Eligibility and entrants

The following were the eligibility requirements for the draft: [3]

Within fifteen (15) days, draftees must: [3]

If drafted players cannot secure a contract for their teams, they are considered free-agent unsigned draftees. They will undergo a special draft arranged by the league following the same arrangement, excluding the team that failed to sign them. [5]

The deadline for entrant submissions was set on May 31, 2024, but was extended to June 12, 2024. [6]

Draft entrants

From an initial list of 50 players, 47 applicants were officially listed for the draft. [7]

UAAP players

UAAP training pool and former players

NCAA players

Non-UAAP/NCAA players

Foreign-based Filipino players

Combine

The Rookie Draft Combine was held from June 25 to 26, 2024 at the Gameville Ball Park in Mandaluyong City. It was a mandatory two-day event for draft applicants to undergo physical measures, medical tests, interviews, athletic tests, and scrimmages, all observed by coaches and officials. [8]

The draft combine was also open to free-agent players who had played in the league starting from the 2021 season. Although free agents were ineligible to join the rookie draft, the event allowed them to show their skills, to be observed and potentially hired by teams. [9] The deadline for registration for free agents was on June 21, 2024.

Free agent combine entrants

The following table shows the players listed for the combine for free agent players. [10]

PlayerPos.Last PVL teamLast PVL conference played
Bien Elaine JuanilloOP Gerflor Defenders 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Cathrina DizonMB Capital1 Solar Spikers 2024 All-Filipino
Chumcee CaoleS Strong Group Athletics [a] 2024 All-Filipino
Dana Del RosarioS Capital1 Solar Spikers 2024 All-Filipino
Jan Angeli CaneOH Strong Group Athletics [a] 2024 All-Filipino
Jana Sta. MariaOP Strong Group Athletics [a] 2024 All-Filipino
Judith AbilOH Nxled Chameleons 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Lhara Maye ClavanoS Gerflor Defenders 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Mary Angelei JingcoOH Gerflor Defenders 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Menchie TubieraOH Gerflor Defenders 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Merry Rose JauculanOP Strong Group Athletics [a] 2024 All-Filipino
Pia SarmientoL Gerflor Defenders 2023 2nd All-Filipino
Sheeka Gin EspinosaOP Strong Group Athletics [a] 2024 All-Filipino
Souzan RaslanOP Strong Group Athletics [a] 2024 All-Filipino

Draft order

In the first round, the order of the four worst-performing teams was determined through a lottery, for the ability to pick the first to fourth picks. This practice was designed to discourage any tanking by teams in order to influence the pick order in potential future drafts. The remaining eight teams were arranged based on the reverse final standing at the 2024 All-Filipino Conference. The draft lottery results revealed that Zus Coffee Thunderbelles got the inaugural top draft pick, from which the arrangement of the next teams followed their exact reverse standings in the 2024 All-Filipino. [11] The draft concluded when all 12 teams passed the draft selection.

For the second and subsequent rounds, the draft order continued to use the reverse final standing of the said conference, with the worst team picking first and the champions picking last. [8]

Draft orderTeam 2024 AFC result
PlacementRecord (W-L)
1st Zus Coffee Thunderbelles [a] 12th0–11
2nd Capital1 Solar Spikers 11th1–10
3rd Galeries Tower Highrisers 10th3–8
4th Farm Fresh Foxies 9th3–8
5th Nxled Chameleons 8th4–7
6th Akari Chargers 7th5–6
7th Cignal HD Spikers 6th7–4
8th PLDT High Speed Hitters 5th8–3
9th Chery Tiggo Crossovers 4th10–6
10th Petro Gazz Angels 3rd11–5
11th Choco Mucho Flying Titans 2nd12–4
12th Creamline Cool Smashers 1st12–4

Draft selections

Positions key
OH Outside hitter MB Middle blocker OP Opposite hitter S Setter L Libero
National Team Member
PVL Premier Team Awardee
*Rookie of the Conference
Player
(in italic text)
Unsigned drafted player

1st round

PickPlayerPos.TeamCollege/University
1 Thea Gagate MB Zus Coffee Thunderbelles De La Salle University
2Leila CruzOP Capital1 Solar Spikers De La Salle University
3Julia Coronel S Galeries Tower Highrisers De La Salle University
4 Maicah Larroza OH/L Farm Fresh Foxies De La Salle University
5 Lucille Almonte OH Nxled Chameleons Adamson University
6Stephanie BustrilloOP Akari Chargers University of the Philippines
7 Ishie Lalongisip OH Cignal HD Spikers Adamson University
8 Angelica Alcantara S PLDT High Speed Hitters Adamson University
9Karen VerdeflorL Chery Tiggo Crossovers Adamson University
10Antonette AdolfoOP Petro Gazz Angels Adamson University
11Lorraine PecañaMB Choco Mucho Flying Titans Arellano University
12Aleiah TorresL Creamline Cool Smashers Brock University

2nd round

PickPlayerPos.TeamCollege/University
13Sharya AnchetaMB Zus Coffee Thunderbelles Adamson University
14Roma Mae DoromalL Capital1 Solar Spikers Ateneo de Manila University
15Jewel EncarnacionOH Galeries Tower Highrisers University of the Philippines
16Pierre AbellanaOH Farm Fresh Foxies University of Santo Tomas
17Razel AldeaMB Nxled Chameleons University of Perpetual Help System DALTA
18Donnalyn ParalejasS Petro Gazz Angels Arellano University

3rd round

PickPlayerPos.TeamCollege/University
19Nikka YandocS Zus Coffee Thunderbelles Adamson University
20Giliana TorresOH Capital1 Solar Spikers De La Salle University
21Dodee BatindaanMB Galeries Tower Highrisers Arellano University

4th round

PickPlayerPos.TeamCollege/University
22Jenina ZetaL Zus Coffee Thunderbelles University of the East
23Danivah AyingOP Galeries Tower Highrisers University of San Jose–Recoletos

5th round

A fifth round was held, but all remaining teams passed, thus ending the draft. [12]

Draft lottery

The draft lottery determined the arrangement of the four lowest-ranked teams in selecting draft applicants in the first round. [8] The lottery was held on the June 24, 2024 broadcast of The Starting Lineup of RPTV. [7] [11]

External videos
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg 2024 PVL Draft Lottery Drawing, PVL's official YouTube channel. June 25, 2024.
Denotes the actual lottery result
Team 2024 AFC 1st pick
Lottery chances [13]
Lottery probabilities
PlacementRecord1st2nd3rd4th
Zus Coffee Thunderbelles [a] 12th0–114040.0%31.6%20.6%7.8%
Capital1 Solar Spikers 11th1–103030.0%30.8%26.2%13.0%
Galeries Tower Highrisers 10th3–82020.0%24.1%31.7%24.1%
Farm Fresh Foxies 9th3–81010.0%13.5%21.4%55.1%

Summary

Acquisitions involving draft picks and undrafted free agents

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Within the same season, Zus Coffee previously played under the name Strong Group Athletics in the 2024 All-Filipino Conference

References

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