Adamson Girl Falcons’ Shaina Nitura throughout a UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball sport. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet

For a younger participant simply beginning her profession, Shaina Nitura has proven a variety of maturity in the best way she has been offering for Adamson within the UAAP Season 87 girls’s volleyball event.

After a stellar debut the place Nitura simply shattered the rookie scoring document, the college’s homegrown expertise skilled her largest problem but as she watched her Hovering Falcons get swept by powerhouse La Salle of their final sport.

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It may be drawing from her youthful vitality however Nitura appears to be like at that impediment as a crucial evil to assist her crew be even higher.

“We have now to undergo these sorts of issues [losses] as a result of we will’t study if we received’t expertise these challenges,” Nitura stated after powering Adamson as soon as extra in a 25-20, 25-15, 25-12 drubbing of College of the East on Wednesday at Mall of Asia Area.

“If we don’t get to know loss, how will we get to know win, proper?” she added after dropping 18 factors out of 16 assaults, a block and an ace aside from 11 glorious digs to assist the Falcons enhance to a 2-1 (win-loss) document.

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The rookie Falcon has been proving her value of their three video games right here exhibiting simply why she is the captain of the crew that misplaced a variety of expertise from final season.

Brick wall

For her opening act within the collegiate degree, Nitura erupted for 33 factors to tug the rug from below Ateneo earlier than Adamson hit a brick wall within the Angel Canino-led Girl Spikers, the place she was restricted to 16 factors.

However that early problem was welcomed by Nitura as she remained composed in making an attempt to convey her college again to the profitable column reverse the Girl Warriors.

“There was no additional motivation as we speak. How we confronted La Salle and Ateneo and the way we are going to stand in entrance of the opposite groups we are going to face, it will be the identical means,” she stated. “Possibly if we’ve got to enhance on one thing from the final sport, it will be the extent of our starvation [to get the win].”

“We are going to alter that however it’s not a cause. We ought to be hungry, win or lose, so we must always simply be constant.”

This identical maturity is what coach JP Yude noticed in Nitura and what the remainder of the league can see and so it’s no marvel why he has his full belief in his ace.

“No. 1 factor that I see in Shaina is her management. As soon as that will get constructed on her, she’s going to develop into different issues like how one can deal with issues inside and out of doors the court docket alongside together with her teammates,” Yude stated. “She’s dominant there and even in her sport.”

“So long as she turns into the proper chief and instance to her teammates out and in of the court docket with the best way she handles issues, particularly strain as a result of there are a variety of expectations,” Yude added. “However I all the time remind her to only be herself and play the best way that she actually is.”