Benson Bocboc takes over as coach of the UP Combating Maroons women's volleyball team. —PHOTO OF THE DOCUMENT
MANILA, Philippines – Veteran La Salle assistant coach Benson Bocboc will take over the coaching reins of the University of the Philippines women's volleyball ahead of the UAAP Season 87 competition next year.
The team announced Friday that Volleyball program director Oliver Almadro has named Bocboc, who was a longtime assistant to Ramil De Jesús de La Salle, as the new head coach.
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Bocboc, who parted ways with La Salle and joined the coaching staff of Alas Pilipinas women and Farm Contemporary in the PVL, hopes to bring her winning experience to a rebuilding UP team that only won one game last season.
Almadro, who called the shots for the Combating Maroons in Season 86, will continue to focus on bringing maroon recruits to Diliman after acquiring Kianne Olango, Yesha Noceja and Jothea Mae Ramos to bolster the roster this year.
“Nagkaroon took the opportunity to bring together two champion trainers and we took advantage of it. With Coach Boc on the bench, Coach O overseeing lahat-lahat and siyempre, the continued support of Chief Frank, we look forward to a bright future for UP volleyball,” said the Director of the Office of Athletics and Sports Development from UP, Bo Perasol. referring to business magnate Frank Lao of major sponsor Sturdy Group Athletics.
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Bocboc was on the coaching staff of Woman Spikers from 2016 to 2024, as well as on the bench of F2 Logistics in the same period. In 2022, he was installed as interim coach of Cargo Movers in the Open and Enhanced Conferences of the Premier Volleyball League.
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UP's new coach hopes to lead the school back to the Last 4 since their last appearance in Season 79 during the rookie year of now PVL superstars Tots Carlos and Isa Molde. The Combating Maroons last ruled UAAP women's volleyball in the 1980s.
The UP men's volleyball team also named Carlo Cabatingan as its new coach and Vip Isada “stepped aside.”
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