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Full name | Rhea Katrina Dimaculangan | ||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Rhea, D-Mac, Kat | ||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Filipino | ||||||||||||||||
Born | March 21, 1991 | ||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Batangas, Philippines | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
Spike | 275 cm (108 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Block | 270 cm (106 in) | ||||||||||||||||
College / University | University of Santo Tomas | ||||||||||||||||
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Position | Setter | ||||||||||||||||
Current club | Petron Blaze Spikers | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 12 (club), 19 (national team) | ||||||||||||||||
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Last updated: December 2023 |
Rhea Katrina Karla Dimaculangan (born March 21, 1991) is a Filipino professional indoor volleyball athlete, and a former member of the Philippines women national volleyball team and the club Petron Tri-Activ Spikers. Dimaculangan played setter for and was a former captain of the UST Golden Tigresses.
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Personal life
Dimaculangan was born in a family of five siblings in Batangas. She is the younger sister of Ray Karl Dimaculangan, also a volleyball player and used to play as a setter for the men's volleyball team of the UST Golden Tigers.[1]
Career
Beginnings
Dimaculangan started her career in volleyball early in her elementary days in De La Salle Lipa. She was originally a hitter for her team, and only transitioned into her current position in 5th grade.[1]
Collegiate days
She moved in the University of Santo Tomas High School for her high school education where she became the playmaker for the girls' volleyball team. Later on, she pursued her tertiary education in University of Santo Tomas, majoring in Sports Science under UST-CRS, and continuing with the UST Golden Tigresses.[citation needed]
In 2009–2010, the UST Golden Tigresses achieved a historic "Grand Slam" after sweeping the major Philippine collegiate women's volleyball conferences.[citation needed] (Shakey's V-League Season 6 1st Conference and 2nd Conference, the 2009 University Games, and UAAP Season 72).[citation needed]
In UAAP Season 72 where her team won the championship, she claimed the Best Server and Final's Most Valuable Player award .[2]
Post-graduate career
Shakey's V-League
Dimaculangan also made a name in several Shakey's V-League conferences. In Shakey's V-League Season 6 1st Conference, she was entitled the Final's Most Valuable Player and Best Setter. She also snatched the Best Setter award in Shakey's V- League Season 11, Open Conference.[3]
Philippine Super Liga
Dimaculangan's debut in the Philippine Super Liga was in the 2014 Philippine Super Liga All-Filipino league where she snatched the Best Setter award and led her team, RC Cola Air Force Raiders, to a championship silver medal.[4]
She then transferred to the club team Foton Tornadoes together with Maika Ortiz in mid-2015 where she brought the team into a first-runner up finish in the 2015 Philippine Super Liga All-Filipino. With the aid of the imports Lindsay Stalzer and Ariel Usher, she helped the team bag its second championship gold medal in the 2016 PSL Grand Prix Conference.
Early 2017, Dimaculangan moved clubs and signed a year contract with the Petron Tri-Activ Spikers.[5] With Petron Blaze Spikers, she won the 2017 PSL Grand Prix Conference silver medal.[6] The following year, she together with Lindsay Stalzer, Katherine Bell and Aiza Maizo-Pontillas led Petron to the 2018 PSL Grand Prix Conference championship.[7] Dimaculangan won the Most Valuable Player award of the 2018 PSL All-Filipino Conference.[8]
Awards
Individuals
- 2009 UAAP Season 72 "Final's Most Valuable Player"
- 2009 UAAP Season 72 "Best Server"
- 2009 Shakey's V- League Season 6, 1st Conference "Final's Most Valuable Player"
- 2009 Shakey's V- League Season 6, 1st Conference "Best Setter"
- 2014 Shakey's V- League Season 11, Open Conference "Best Setter"
- 2014 PSL All-Filipino Conference "Best Setter"
- 2017 PSL All-Filipino Conference "Best Setter"
- 2018 PSL All-Filipino Conference "Most Valuable Player"
- 2019 PSL Grand Prix Conference "Best Setter"
Collegiate
- 2007 UAAP Season 70 –
- 2008 Shakey's V-League 2nd Conference –
- 2008 UAAP Season 71 –
- 2009 Shakey's V-League 1st Conference –
- 2009 Shakey's V-League 2nd Conference –
- 2009 Philippine University Games –
- 2009 UAAP Season 72 –
- 2010 Shakey's V-League 1st Conference –
- 2010 UAAP Season 73 –
- 2011 UAAP Season 74 –
Club
- 2016 Philippine SuperLiga All-Filipino Conference –
- 2016 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix –
- 2017 Philippine Super Liga Invitational Cup –
- 2017 Philippine SuperLiga All-Filipino Conference –
- 2017 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix Conference –
- 2018 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix Conference –
- 2018 Philippine SuperLiga All-Filipino Conference –
References
- ^ a b "UAAP's Most Valuable Siblings". ABS-CBN News. March 21, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2016.
- ^ "UAAP volleyball: Year of the Tigers and Tigresses". ABS-CBN News. March 1, 2010. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
- ^ "Daquis wins shakey's V-League MVP award". Manila Standard. August 31, 2014. Retrieved October 1, 2016.
- ^ "Army wins third straight Philippine SuperLiga title". Rappler. July 26, 2014. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
- ^ Escarlote, Mark (January 14, 2017). "Former, current Tigresses reunite in Petron". ABS-CBN Sports. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Petron gets payback, snares PSL Grand Prix crown". Rappler. May 5, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ Naredo, Camille (December 20, 2018). "PSL: After leading Petron to glory, Rhea Dimaculangan claims MVP plum". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^ "UAAP bets shine in UniGames". November 4, 2009.