Beginnings

 

Alyssa Valdez was raised in San Juan, Batangas, to parents Ruel, who works in an automobile company, and Pablita, a public school teacher. She's the only girl amongst four siblings. She learned how to play volleyball by playing with her two older brothers when she was in elementary school at the age of 10.

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Having developed her volleyball skills, she was chosen to play in the Southern Tagalog (Calabarzon) Athletic Association (STACAA), a regional sports meet for elementary and high school student athletes where she was discovered and recruited by the University of Santo Tomas (UST) to play for their high school varsity volleyball team, the UST Tigress Cubs.

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