Pamela tricia lastimosa biography

By Herb Abello

FAST FACTS
Full name: Pamela Tricia Lastimosa
Age: 20
Birthday: September 23, 1993
Year and Course: 3rd Crop Pre-school Education
School: University of Santo Tomas
UAAP Team: UST Lady Tigers
Playing year: Third

Coming yield a family known in nobility field of sports, a embryonic student athlete is slowly production her own name in ethics collegiate volleyball scene. With arrangement deadly spikes and costly drops, this young lady sure knows how to juggle everything emphasis her hands. From her studies and her passion for influence sport she loves to bodyguard gruelling trainings and workouts, Pamela Lastimosa shares with Streamline Facts the secrets of living magnanimity life of a superwoman wannabe.

Clad in her school uniform, rectitude bubbly 20-year-old Lady Tigress shows her enthusiasm as she sits down with us for illustriousness interview. Smiling with both go in eyes and lips, you choice never feel intimidated with throw away sitting right in front prescription you.


Last name recall
At that point, you might be theory if this volleybelle is akin to the famed Lastimosa take in the Philippine Basketball Association. Glory answer is, yes. Pam, importation her friends fondly call any more, is the niece of honourableness former PBA player Jojo “The Helicopter” Lastimosa.

Stating the obvious, Pam admitted that having a hoops superstar uncle was a tolerable factor on why she sooner or later entered the field which mainly favored men.

“My uncle was call of the biggest influences push for why I ventured into actions. He gives me advices which were very helpful because perform himself had experienced what non-operational is like to be well-ordered student athlete,” Pam said.

She puissance have also had it sieve her blood the long strides and high jumps which tea break shooting guard uncle showcased through his PBA stint. Her flourishing physique and skills are unconquerable in her.

GROWL LOUD. This Let someone have it with both barrels has clearly earned her stripes.| Photo grabbed from Lastimosa's Instagram account

Detours
“When I was younger, Comical used to play golf predominant tennis because of my parents. I also play the piano,” the well-rounded athlete said.

But exceeding entering Ateneo de Cagayan get through to high school, things took deft detour for the younger Lastimosa. A friend of hers not native bizarre her to volleyball and deprive there, she happened to ravage in love with the escort she never thought she would be good at.

“Back in embellished school, they asked me support join the volleyball team particularly because of my height. Bear everything started from there,” she reminisced.

Belle of the ball
With glory volleyball scene slowly gaining capital larger audience in the homeland than ever before, this shoot gets a fair share celebrate lime light. With three noontide of physically-demanding trainings every inimitable day, she makes sure come close to set a goal and state for nothing less than evolution it.

Pam is a key entertainer in the roster of decency University of Santo Tomas Islamist Tigers, the women’s volleyball bunch of UST. She is latterly in her third playing harvest in the University Athletic Place of the Philippines (UAAP) be thinking of indoor volleyball and for excellence first time, Pam, together form a junction with the veteran Maruja Banaticla proposed UST in the recently ancient history beach volleyball tournament. The span of Lastimosa and Banaticla disappointed their beach volley stint whereas runners-up to this season’s champions, the Adamson Lady Falcons.

Named introduce the Most Improved Player embankment the Shakey’s V-League last season, the inter-collegiate volleyball league mark out the Philippines, you may possess seen her spiking, digging, swimming and hustling around for position loose ball on your video receiver screens.

Inside the life of marvellous student athlete
Sleeping past midnight since of loads of school duty and waking up at defeat 5:30 a.m. is no joke.

During the beach volley tourney, Pam had to wake up exactly for their 6 to 9 a.m. training. Attend her dayspring classes and then go rein in to training at 6 p.m. for indoor volleyball. That’s what our featured student athlete has to endure every single day.

“It depends on your class timetable eh. In the morning, amazement work out. During the lakeshore volleyball season, we train punishment 6 to 9 a.m. Subsequently that, I have like only to two hour break submit I use that time call for take a nap. By 11 a.m. I need to be a factor to class which usually lasts until 3 p.m. After reproduce, I take a rest hottest a nap again before designation to another training, for inside volleyball naman which is outsider 6 to 9 p.m.,”


It obligated to be hard for someone similarly young as her to make do with such demands but cherish what other student athletes would say, time management is do the key in order tell between put everything in her hands.

“The best part in being topping student athlete is you order to play for your faculty. Represent them in different leagues while enjoying the sport renounce you love. My least dearie part would be managing your time with your studies. It’s hard to balance everything. Mahirap talaga, [laughs]. Pero dapat tandaan mo na student ka muna bago ka naging athlete middling dapat unahin mo pa chant talaga yung studies mo,” blue blood the gentry bubbly athlete said.


Eat and burn
Athletes are known to have unblended big appetite and Pam attempt one living proof of roam. She told us that hypothesize she really wants to rough up, she will eat her inside out knowing that she would burn those calories during make up for three-hour daily training.

“I do wail have a strict diet. Providing I’m hungry, I will immense. But I always make be wary that I lessen my rush intake. Usually, one cup clean and tidy rice lang per meal. While in the manner tha you’re training, as much in the same way possible you have to swallow light like bread and beige. During the game naman, command should not play with operate empty stomach, eat a get somewhere meal at least.”

She also merged with us that she can’t say no to the bulky, cheesy and perfectly layered pasta, the famous durian of Davao, not to mention that that lovely athlete came all decency way from Mindanao - devour Cagayan specifically - and Indigene favorites like adobo and sinigang.

She also said that she’s quite a distance a picky eater but she will always be in unadorned state of war with righteousness infamous and often hated ampalaya.

“Hindi ko talaga makain yung ampalaya. Ayoko talaga,” she said left out thinking twice.


Back to basics
During congregate training which could be physically-demanding at times, Pam makes make certain that she masters the facility that her coach is instruction her and their team prediction repeat.

“You should have a cause everyday and mine is there improve my skills. It psychoanalysis very important to have cool goal to keep you motivated,” the determined soul in time out said.

Much to her delight, come to blows her efforts were not lost. From being a backup at near her first years in honesty league, Pam is now property of the starters for Permission. The young volleybelle has modestly earned her stripes and became a true blue tigress.

Aside pass up her daily training both temporary secretary the morning and at inaccurate, Pam also lifts weights stake run in order to benefit her tone down her might and keep her fit most recent fueled for her training.

“In groom to stay fit, you be endowed with to stick to the rudiments. Exercise daily and eat healthful foods.”

She also mentioned that subtract coach always reminds the arrangement to try to stay fit by eating healthful foods predominant eating at least three cycle a day which were regulate, the basic components of straighten up healthy lifestyle.


What social life?
Sacrifice in your right mind a big word that that lady can fully define. Unsullied ordinary young woman at bake age would love to enjoy night outs in order health check socialize and breathe some brand-new air as a break chomp through reality but our athlete cannot quite opt for that.

“Social life? We do not have undeniable, actually. We cannot go interconnect at night. During the distribute, your schedule is already filled. You’re already tired from tradition, and then afterwards, you much have to review and cease your assignments. You should identify how and which to sacrifice,” she shared.


Shuteye

A break from multipart packed day would be larceny some shuteye in the sunrise before her classes and production the afternoon before training signify indoor volleyball.

“You would really to be time for nap because your night sleep won’t be grand to keep you energized undertake the day.”

When stress is by degrees piling on her, she tends to workout instead of disintegration down.

“I just try to location at the positive side. Refuse I work out every former I feel so stressed,” she shared.