Alyssa Valdez

Alyssa Caymo Valdez (born June 29, 1993) is a Filipino volleyball player who currently plays for the Creamline Cool Smashers.

She was a member of the collegiate varsity women's volleyball team of Ateneo de Manila University in both indoor and beach volleyball.

She was most outstanding as an indoor volleyball player where she brought multiple championship titles and a lot of honor for the university.

She is a current member of Philippines national team.

Her global recognition paved the way for her to play in other countries like Thailand for 3BB Nakornnont and Taiwan for Attack Line Volleyball Club.

Valdez was raised in San Juan, Batangas, to parents Ruel, who works in an automobile company, and Pablita, a public school teacher.

She is the only daughter among four children.

She learned how to play volleyball by playing with her two older brothers when she was in elementary school at the age of 12.

Having developed her volleyball skills, she was chosen to play in the Southern Tagalog Calabarzon Athletic Association (STCAA), a regional sports meet for elementary and high school student athletes in the Calabarzon region where she was scouted and recruited by the University of Santo Tomas (UST) to play for their high school varsity volleyball team, the UST Tigress Cubs.

In her first year at the University of Santo Tomas Junior High School, she was selected as a member of the National Capital Region (NCR) team for the Palarong Pambansa, a national sports competition for elementary and secondary students.

She was UST's top high school volleyball player who led her team to several championships: three titles in UAAP (Seasons 70–72), and one in National Shakey's Girls' Volleyball League (2009).

She was a three-time MVP in UAAP (Season 70–72) and once in Shakey's Girls' Volleyball League (2009).

Valdéz's student-athlete career reached a higher level during her college years.

She garnered multiple individual awards and helped win a couple of championship titles for her college team, Ateneo Lady Eagles.

She was UAAP's 4-time Best Scorer, 3-time Best Server, 3-time Season MVP, and one-time Finals MVP.

Though enrolled as a freshman student in Ateneo, Valdéz had to serve a one-year residency imposed by the University Athletic Association of the Philippines for transferring from a UAAP school (UST) to another (Ateneo).

During this time, she competed in the International Federal Beach Volleyball Tournament held in China together with Lady Eagle teammate Bea Tan where they finished 7th.

She also played as a guest player for Ateneo in two conferences of Shakey's V-League.

The Shakey's V-League Season 7 2nd Conference marked her first game appearance with the Lady Eagles in a tournament, as a guest player.

This time, she was not yet part of the 1st six.

The following Season (Shakey's V-League Season 8 1st Conference), she joined the team again as a guest player and this time as a starter.

Valdez won her first V-League gold medal after they beat the defending champions, the Adamson Lady Falcons, in the finals.

The first ever Open Conference of Shakey's V-League was the first tournament where Valdéz played as a regular player for Ateneo.

She was one of the top scorers of the team.

The Lady Eagles was the only collegiate team to enter the Final 4 and finished in 3rd place.

The Lady Eagles joined the 3rd season of Shakey's V-League Season 8 which was the Southeast Asian Club Invitational League.

Valdez led the Lady Eagles in beating the club team from Malaysia in the eliminations.

She had 27 points in that game.

After serving the mandatory one-year residency rule, thus making her ineligible for the UAAP Rookie of the Year award, Valdez made it to the Lady Eagles roster in UAAP Season 74 and joined the veteran players Fille Cainglet, Dzi Gervacio, Gretchen Ho, A Nacachi, and Jem Ferrer or collectively known as the Fab 5.

She contributed to the team's offense and helped bring the team to the Finals.

Ateneo took Game number 1 of the Finals but failed to beat the DLSU Lady Spikers in the next 2 games.

In beach volleyball, together with Bea Tan and Fille Cainglet, they finished 2nd place.

In the 1st Conference of Shakey's V-League Season 9, she received her second V-League gold medal and was named the Finals MVP after they defended their title against the UST Tigresses.

In the Open Conference of Shakey's V-League Season 9, Valdez led the Ateneo team and again, they are the only collegiate team to enter the Final 4.

The team got the chance to take the bronze after beating the Philippine Army Lady Troopers in 5 sets in the game 1 of the best-of-three battle for bronze.

Unfortunately, due to academic reasons, some key players were absent in Game 2 and Philippine Army easily won the 2nd game in straight sets.

Series were no longer extended as the Sandugo Lady Conquerors already won the title.

In UAAP Season 75, Valdéz broke the record for the most points scored in a UAAP women's volleyball game.

The standing record before her record-breaking performance was 33 points set by an Adamson Lady Falcon, Angela Benting on February 14, 2009.

She scored 35 points (31 spikes, 3 blocks and 1 service ace) in the second round elimination game against the Adamson Lady Falcons on January 20, 2013.