Guilty or power tripping?

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BY ABBY TORALBA and MICHAEL JUGADO

UNIVERSITY of the East women’s volleyball team coach Jerry Yee was stunningly handed a three-month suspension by the UAAP yesterday in a case that the multi-titled tactician promptly called a foul.

The league yesterday released a statement stating it decided to temporarily ban Yee for the remainder of the 86th UAAP women’s volleyball tournament.

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“The decision follows a complaint raised by a member school against coach Yee on account of conduct violative of the purposes of the UAAP–a platform for member universities to foster camaraderie and fair play,” the statement said.

According to Yee, also the head strategist of the College of St. Benilde Lady Blazers in the NCAA and Farm Fresh Foxies in the PVL, the UE camp led by athletic director Rod Roque will appeal the decision today.

The UAAP Board of Managing Directors, according to the release, thoroughly deliberated on the case and came up with a recommendation to the league’s Board of Trustees.

Based on their findings, Yee “had engaged in acts inconsistent with the league’s objectives.”

Yee called the shots for the Adamson University Lady Falcons last season and led the San Marcelino-based squad in ending a nine-year Final Four dry spell.

But Yee and the Lady Falcons parted ways June last year before he was named as the new mentor of the Lady Warriors two weeks after.

Yee expressed disappointment over the suspension which the UAAP deemed was due to “committing acts that are inconsistent with the purposes of the association.”

“No ethical breach in my decision to accept UE’s head coaching job, because it was a mutual parting of ways for both Adamson and I,” Yee said in a statement.

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