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UAAP S81 appoints new volleyball commissioner

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For the 81st year of the league, host National University is anticipating a successful season with Yul Benosa heading the volleyball matches, which will begin on Saturday, February 16 at the Filoil Flying V Center in San Juan. (File Photo: Yul Castillo Benosa/Facebook)

Veteran international referee, Yul Benosa, has just been announced as the newest volleyball commissioner for the upcoming University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) season.

For the 81st year of the league, host National University (NU) is anticipating a successful season with Benosa heading the volleyball matches, which will begin on Saturday, February 16 at the Filoil Flying V Center in San Juan.

Benosa is originally from Pangasinan, graduating from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) with a degree in education, major in physical education, health and music. He was also a part of the UAAP men’s volleyball team from 1989 to 1991 representing the Tigers. He represented the country as RP Youth Team Captain in Thailand in 1992 and the national men’s senior volleyball team in Japan in 1993.

In 2008, Benosa became the chief referee of the UAAP for the next 10 years. He has also assisted the Palarong Pambansa volleyball tournaments since 2012. Benosa began his international career in 2009, officiating tournaments like the 2014 Asian Men’s Club Championships and the 2016 ASEAN University Games in Singapore.

Other than refereeing, Benosa works as a coaching clinician and volleyball event organizer for the Philippine Volleyball Federation and as a senior high school teacher at the Pasay City North High School-Tramo Campus.

For the first games of the UAAP Season 81 volleyball season, the University of the East  (UE) Warriors men’s volleyball team will face the University of the Philippines (UP) Fighting Maroons at the San Juan venue at 8am; while at 10am, the Far Eastern University (FEU) Tamaraws will go head-to-head against the NU Bulldogs. For the women’s division, the Lady Warriors will face the Lady Maroons at 2pm, while the 4pm game is when the FEU Lady Tamaraws and the NU Lady Bulldogs will go head-to-head.

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