MANILA, Philippines — Creamline provides extra feathers to its already heavy cap after copping the Workforce of the 12 months and Coach of the 12 months honors to be given within the first-ever Pilipinas Stay PVL Press Corps Awards Night time on Might 28 on the Novotel Manila Araneta Metropolis in Quezon Metropolis.

Displaying excellence in amassing 176 wins in 216 all-time league matches, the Cool Smashers constructed and upheld a profitable tradition over the past eight years.

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Creamline highlighted its dominance by turning into the PVL’s first grand slam champion after sweeping all three conferences of the 2024 PVL season.

The ten-time PVL champions earned the particular nod within the inaugural awards night time offered by Area Plus after garnering 13.6 factors within the ballot, 10.8 of which got here from the media and a couple of.8 from groups.

Petro Gazz got here in second with 9.4 votes from 3.0 media votes and 6.4 workforce votes after foiling Creamline’s All-Filipino Convention five-peat bid final April.

Doubt clouded the Cool Smashers’ grand slam bid with the star trio of Alyssa Valdez and Tots Carlos, coming off accidents, and Jema Galanza, unavailable for many of the season on account of nationwide workforce duties, taking the backseat.

Of their absence, an unlikely hero in 24-year-old American import and professional league debutant Erica Staunton took over alongside a brand new MVP trio in Bernadeth Pons, Michele Gumabao and Kyle Negrito to finish the championship treble.

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The Cool Smashers’ dominant 12 months was additionally highlighted by their 19-game win streak, which spanned from the 2024 Bolstered Convention to the tail-end of the 2024-25 PVL AFC, marking the second-longest unbeaten run in league historical past.

Creamline, nonetheless, did have its fair proportion of struggles and suffered a stinging championship loss to Petro Gazz in three video games, ending their hopes of extending their all-local reign.

However when push got here to shove, it’s eight years of unmatched chemistry as a battle-tested household nonetheless stood agency even in uncommon instances of defeat.

As such, grizzled tactician Sherwin Meneses, architect of the Cool Smashers’ blazing run, can even be honored because the league’s Coach of the 12 months.

The 42-year-old mentor did what solely 4 different coaches in all of Philippine sports activities have performed in half a century — win a grand slam.

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Meneses received the highest teaching plum with 11 factors constructed from 7.8 media votes and three.2 workforce votes.

Petro Gazz’s champion shot-caller Japanese Koji Tsuzurabara ranked second with 9.6 factors on a fair break up of 4.8 media votes and 4.8 workforce votes.

His compatriot Taka Minowa of Akari obtained 2.4 factors, additionally break up into 1.2 media votes and 1.2 workforce votes, to complete third within the vote.

Beneath his regular management, the Cool Smashers proceed to thrive on a selfless, profitable tradition — no egos, simply their signature ‘good vibes’ on show.

Meneses overcame the problem of extending Creamline’s title reign with out its largest stars to win the Grand Slam and his seventh PVL title on the helm.

He additionally cemented his stature because the league’s most embellished head coach in simply three years by turning into its first centurion, reaching the 100-win mark in a straight-sets victory over Chery Tiggo in Sport 1 of the current AFC quarterfinals.

Sporting a 104-18 win-loss report with a win price of 85.25 p.c, Meneses’ feat stands second to none among the many 45 coaches to have ever known as the photographs within the nation’s first and solely ladies’s skilled volleyball league.