CES MOLINA received the highest individual honor of her career on Sunday evening at the PhilSports Arena in Pasig City.
The 5-foot-9 spiker from Cignal won the Premiere Volleyball League Invitational Conference 2023 Most Valuable Player award.
Molina, 28, emerged as the highest scoring local in the semifinals phase with 87 points.
The native of Nueva Ecija also achieved the third-highest spiker efficiency in the phase with a 33.65-percent success rate.
She won the Best Outside Spiker award in the 2022 Open and Invitational Conferences.
Molina’s teammate Gel Cayuna was hailed Best Setter of the Conference after averaging 5.14 excellent sets per game. She edged Rhea Dimaculangan of PLDT (5.08) and Jia De Guzman of Creamline (5.00) for the award.
It was Cayuna’s second Best Setter award after receiving the same honor in the 2022 Open.
Kurashiki’s Asaka Tamaru and Creamline’s Alyssa Valdez were named Best Outside Spikers.
Tamaru was the top scorer of the semifinals phase with 113 points on a 40.07-percent spiking accuracy.
Valdez, now a seven-time Best Outside Spiker in the league, was the eighth-highest scorer with 57 points and had the second-best success rate in spiking, at 39.23 percent.
Three-time MVP Tots Carlos, also from Creamline, was awarded Best Opposite Hitter—her fourth in the league—after finishing fourth in scoring with 72 points, while also having the third-best spiking success rate at 35.11 percent.
Majoy Baron of F2 Logistics and Creamline’s Ced Domingo were recognized as the top Middle Blockers, with Baron averaging 1.07 blocks per set and Domingo achieving 0.82 blocks per set.
Completing the All-Premier Team was Kath Arado of PLDT, who topped both the digging (6.62) and receiving (53.76-percent) categories.
Arado is now a three-time Best Libero in the league, having also received the citation during the 2021 Open and 2023 All-Filipino conferences.