Aiza Maizo-Pontillas


Aiza Maizo-Pontillas (born February 29, 1988) is a Filipina professional volleyball player. She was a former member and team captain of the UST Golden Tigresses, and a member of the Philippines women's national volleyball team. She led the España-based squad to its 16th and, as of 2018, latest championship in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) league. She was a Shakey's V-League (SVL) three-time Finals and two-time Season Most Valuable Player. Maizo is known for bagging several best-of awards in almost all volleyball skill departments in UAAP and SVL, excluding setting and digging. She is also known as the first Filipina in the entire franchise of SVL to take both Finals and Season MVP in a single conference twice. She currently plays for Petron Blaze Spikers.

Aiza Maizo-Pontillas
Personal information
NicknameAiza, Nang
NationalityFilipino
Born (1988-02-29) February 29, 1988
HometownPassi City, Iloilo, Philippines
Height178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Spike280 cm (110 in)
Block275 cm (108 in)
College(s)University of Santo Tomas
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite spiker
Current clubPetron
Number8
Career
YearsTeams
2007University of Santo Tomas
2010 – 2013Cagayan Valley
2013Petron
2013PLDT
2014 – 2015Cagayan Valley
2016 – presentPetron
National team
2014 – presentPhilippines
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Philippines
ASEAN Grand Prix
2019 Nakhon Ratchasima/Santa Rosa Team

Education

Pontillas graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a Bachelor of Science in Food Technology.

Volleyball career

Collegiate career

Maizo started her collegiate volleyball career as a back-up setter of the UST Golden Tigresses in UAAP Season 68. In Season 69, she transitioned into an Opposite Hitter by Coach August Sta. Maria of UST. UST gets its 14th championship title, her first championship as a player in UAAP. She came back in Season 71 as team captain and led UST into 3rd place and won the Best Attacker award. In Season 72, Maizo and the rest of UST Golden Tigresses defeated De La Salle University and hailed as UAAP Champions, her second championship title in UAAP. Maizo received Best Scorer and Best Receiver awards led UST into finals appearance but ended her collegiate career as runner-up losing to arch-rival De La Salle University in UAAP Season 73.

Maizo was part of the 5 championship titles of UST in Shakey's V-League. She and the UST Golden Tigresses hailed as back to back champions in V-League 4th Season, 1st and 2nd Conference against arch-rivals, San Sebastian College-Recoletos. In V-League 5th Season, 2nd Conference, UST loss to SSC-R in finals, Maizo bagged the Best Server of the season.

She also led the UST Golden Tigresses in back to back to back championships. In V-League 6th Season, 1st Conference, UST won the championship against San Sebastian College-Recoletos and she won the Best Blocker award. UST won the V-League 6th Season, 2nd Conference against Adamson University and she was the first and only player awarded both Conference MVP and Finals MVP. Maizo led the UST into championship in V-League 7th Season, 1st Conference and won the Best Attacker and Finals MVP awards.

Semi Professional Career

In the Shakey's V-League 12th Season Open Conference, Maizo-Pontillas helped Cagayan Valley Lady Rising Suns to reach the third place of the tournament.[1] She later won the Shakey's V-League 12th Season Reinforced Open Conference with PLDT Home Ultera Fast Hitters.[2] She was sidelined from the national team set to compete in the 2015 Southeast Asian Games,[3] but she was later hired as assistant coach for the games.[4] She played the 2016 Philippine Superliga Invitational Cup with Petron Tri-Activ Spikers having won the second place of the tournament and the Best Opposite Spiker individual award.[5]

With Petron Blaze Spikers, Maizo-Pontillas won the 2017 PSL Grand Prix Conference silver medal.[6] The following year, she together with Stalzer, Katherine Bell and Rhea Dimaculangan led Petron to the 2018 PSL Grand Prix Conference championship.[7]

Clubs

Awards

Individuals

Club

References
  1. Escarlonte, Mark (May 24, 2015). "Cagayan Valley takes SVL Open Conference third place trophy". ABS-CBN. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  2. Lozada, Mei-Lin (December 6, 2015). "Alyssa Valdez stars as PLDT Home Ultera beats Army to complete V-League title run". Spin. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  3. Panaligan, Marisse (May 22, 2015). "Daquis, Valdez lead national lineup for SEA Games volleyball; Maizo-Pontillas". GMA News. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  4. Panaligan, Marisse (May 27, 2015). "Aiza Maizo admits surprise over appointment as nat'l team assistant coach". GMA News. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  5. Reyes, Marc Anthony (April 10, 2016). "RC Cola-Army rules Superliga Invt'l Cup". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  6. Lozada, Bong (December 16, 2017). "F2 completes comeback, wins PSL Grand Prix title at expense of Petron". The Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  7. "Petron gets payback, snares PSL Grand Prix crown".
  8. https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/11/04/09/uaap-bets-shine-unigames
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