MANILA, Philippines – Tenacity and resilience. Put them together and you get Kat Tolentino whose thundering firepower led the Ateneo Lady Eagles to their tenth-straight Final Four appearance in the UAAP Season 81 women’s volleyball tournament.
Despite Ateneo delivering a balanced scoring effort in its most recent games, the Lady Eagles continued to rely on Tolentino’s spikes which merited her second UAAP Player of the Week title, said a report by the independent news portal Rappler, which also published a breathtaking shot of Tolentino in action as captured by photog Michael Gatpandan.
The 24-year-old spiker powered the Lady Eagles with 11 points off 9 attacks and 2 blocks in a straight-set win over Season 80 runner-up Far Eastern University (FEU), said the Rappler report.
Tolentino also tallied 13 points to breeze the Lady Eagles past the National University Lady Bulldogs which allowed Ateneo to be the first team to capture a Final Four spot.
