Jaja Santiago with the Japanese coaching pool. Photograph from fujitv_volleyball Instagram
MANILA, Philippines — Jaja Santiago continues to coach with the Japan ladies’s nationwide volleyball pool.
Santiago, the Filipino center blocker, was noticed within the picture shoot of the Japanese coaching pool together with her fellow non-Japanese participant, Melissa Valdez of the PFU Blue Cats.
The 6-foot-5 Santiago received the call-up to be a part of the coaching camp final month after a stellar 2023-24 V.League season together with her new crew JT Marvelous.
The 26-member pool will prepare till April 30 in preparation for the Volleyball Nations League and the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Santiago’s naturalization course of remains to be ongoing however her Japanese husband and Nxled coach Taka Minowa tweeted final month that being a part of the pool is a “actually massive step to her dream.”
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Regardless of a silver medal end, Santiago had her finest V.League season but in her first stint with JT Marvelous, rising because the league’s finest blocker for the third straight time and incomes her first Finest Attacker award.
The previous UAAP MVP out of Nationwide College was additionally named a member of the league’s Finest Six for the second consecutive season and gained one other Preventing Spirit award.
Santiago, who final performed for the Philippines within the 2022 Southeast Asian Video games in Vietnam, has been taking part in within the V.League since 2018 together with her former membership Ageo Medics earlier than transferring to JT Marvelous final 12 months.
