Maddie Madayag leaving Choco Mucho to play in Japan SV.League
The Flying Titans captain signed for SV.League club Kurobe Aqua Fairies for the 2024-25 campaign.
Choco Mucho, the club Madayag saw rise from the ground up since its inception in the PVL in 2019, made the announcement on the departure of one of their pillars on Monday.
“Join us in sending our captain, Maddie Madayag, all the best as she takes on Japan with the Kurobe Aqua Fairies!
“We’re incredibly proud of you, Maddie, for seizing this amazing opportunity in your career. Your Choco Mucho Flying Titans fam is with you every step of the way.”
Madayag joins fellow Ateneo champion and Denso Airybees’ Jia de Guzman as the two lone Filipinas in Japan’s unified volleyball league.
Through highs and lows, Madayag stuck with Choco Mucho even as it finished seventh in five of its first seven PVL conferences.
In return, the Flying Titans kept their faith in her when she went down with an ACL injury that sidelined her for over a year back in a pandemic-hit 2021 PVL Open Conference in Bacarra, Ilocos Norte.
The mutual trust would pay off two years later when Choco Mucho hit new highs with a bronze medal in the 2023 VTV Cup in Vietnam and back-to-back Finals appearances in the last two All-Filipino conferences.
