With a new name and a wide-reaching television partner in ABS-CBN, the Premier Volleyball League served its inaugural season quite well. The league also featured the men’s side, the former Spikers’ Turf, with Cignal stamping its class in the first two conferences while Ateneo went all the way in the season-closing Collegiate Conference. The PVL also threw its full support to the national team with Alyssa Valdez of theCreamline Cool Smashers and the league’s leading men’s players backstopping the country’s campaign. The PVL also cut one of their conferences short to allow its fans to support the country’s campaign in the Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur last August. With new teams and key players expected to join next year, the Sports Vision-organized league looks forward not only to a more explosive, exciting 2018 season but also to drawing bigger, wider audience via the PVL livestream.

Source: Manila Times December 25, 2017 12:56 UTC