CES Molina received the highest individual honor of her career last Sunday night at the Philsports Arena in Pasig City.
The 5-foot-9 Cignal spiker won the PVL Invitational Conference 2023 Most Valuable Player award.
Molina, 28, emerged as the highest scoring local in the semifinals with a total of 87 points.
A native of Nueva Ecija, she also achieved the third-highest spiker efficiency in the semis with a 33.65-percent success rate.
Molina also won the Best Outside Spiker award in the 2022 Open and Invitational Conferences.
Molina’s teammate, Gel Cayuna, was hailed as the Best Setter of the Conference, averaging 5.14 excellent sets per game. She edged out Rhea Dimaculangan of PLDT (5.08) and Jia De Guzman of Creamline (5.00) for the award.
Cayuna also received the honor during the 2022 Open.
Kurashiki’s Asaka Tamaru and Creamline’s Alyssa Valdez were named as the Best Outside Spikers.
Tamaru emerge as the top scorer in the semifinals 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 named the Best Opposite Hitter after finishing fourth in scoring with 72 points, while also having the third-best spiking success rate at 35.11 percent. This was Carlos’ fourth Best Opposite Hitter award.
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.
