The VNS Volleyball Club Griffins (originally, the Volleyball Never Stops Volleyball Club) are a professional men's

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

team in the Philippines playing the

Spikers' Turf The Spikers' Turf is the top-level men's semi-professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by the Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. (Sports Vision), established in 2015. History The league had its beginnings in 2014, when t ...

. It previously played under various sponsorships.

History

Volleyball Never Stops or VNS was established in 2013 by a group of team captains who played volleyball either at the

University Athletic Association of the Philippines The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), established in 1938, is an athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the Philippines. The eight-member schools are Adamson University (AdU), Ateneo de Manila Univ ...

(UAAP) or the

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(NCAA) as a means to be still able to play competitive volleyball even after they graduated from college. They often took part in exhibition games and various minor tournaments and were joined in by other UAAP and NCAA graduates. In 2016, they were invited to take part in the semi-professional men's volleyball league,

. They played under the name of their sponsor Bounty Fresh in their debut at the 2016 Open Conference. For the season-ending 2016 Reinforced Conference, they under the banner of another sponsor as the 100 Plus Active Spikers. In 2017, they joined the

Premier Volleyball League The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is the top-level professional women's volleyball league in the Philippines organized by the Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The PVL was established in 2004 as the inter-collegiate Shakey's V-League (SV ...

, and took part as the Café Lupe Sunrisers for the whole 2017 season. They would return to the Spiker's Turf in 2018 as the Fury Blazing Hitters. In 2019, they played as the VNS Griffins. In 2021, VNS would take part in the 2021 PNVF Champions League as the Manileño Spikers. The Spikes clinched the bronze medal in the tournament, defeating Global Remit in the third place play off.

Name changes

* Bounty Fresh ( 2016 Open) * 100 Plus Active Spikers ( 2016 Reinforced) * Café Lupe Sunrisers (

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

) * Fury Blazing Hitters (

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

) * VNS Volleyball Club Griffins (

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

) * Manileño Spikers (

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

) * VNS–One Alicia Griffins (

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

) * VNS–Nasty ( 2024 Open) * VNS–Laticrete (

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

–present)

Current roster

* Head coach: Ralph Raymond Ocampo * Assistant coach: John Patrick De Guzman

Previous rosters

* Head coach: Ralph Raymond Ocampo * Assistant coach: John Patrick De Guzman * Head coach: Ralph Raymond Ocampo * Assistant coach: John Patrick De Guzman * Head coach: Ralph Raymond Ocampo * Assistant coach: John Patrick De Guzman * Head coach: Ralph Raymond Ocampo * Assistant coach: John Patrick De Guzman * Head coach: Ralph Ocampo * Assistant coach: John De Guzman * Head coach: Ralph Ocampo * Assistant coach: Hans Chuacoco Coaching staff * Head Coach: Ralph Ocampo * Assistant Coach: Hans Chuacoco Team Staff * Team Manager: * Team Utility: Medical Staff * Team Physician: * Physical Therapist: Coaching staff * Head Coach: Ralph Ocampo * Assistant Coach: Bakhie Pareja Team Staff * Team Manager: * Team Utility: Medical Staff * Team Physician: * Physical Therapist: For the Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Open Conference: Coaching staff * Head Coach:
Rodrigo Palmero * Assistant Coaches:
Ronald Dulay
Mario Mia Team Staff * Team Manager: * Team Utility: Medical Staff * Team Physician: * Physical Therapist: For the

Premier Volleyball League 1st Season Reinforced Open Conference The 2017 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference was the first conference of the Premier Volleyball League and the 2017 season. The conference started on April 30, 2017 and concluded on June 13, 2017. All elimination round games were pl ...

: Coaching staff * Head Coach:
John Pat de Guzman * Assistant Coach:
Ronald Dulay Team Staff * Team Manager: * Team Utility: Medical Staff * Team Physician: * Physical Therapist:

Honors

Team

Spikers' Turf/Premier Volleyball League: ;Notes PNVF:

Individual

Spikers' Turf/Premier Volleyball League: PNVF:

Team Captains

* Ralph Raymund Ocampo (

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

–

) * Phillip Michael Bagalay (

) * Geuel Asia (

) * John Benedict San Andres (

) * Ron Medalla (

) * Michael Doria (

) * Charles Jordan Segui (

–present)

Coaches

* Fritz Michael Santos (

) * John Pat de Guzman (

–

) * Rodrigo Palmero (

) * Ralph Raymund Ocampo (

–present)

External links

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References

{{PVL former teams Spikers' Turf teams Former Premier Volleyball League teams Sports teams in Metro Manila 2013 establishments in the Philippines Volleyball clubs established in 2013