UE Girl Warriors coach Jerry Yee through the UAAP Season 86 girls’s volleyball match.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines — The UAAP has suspended College of the East Girl Warriors coach Jerry Yee for the rest of the Season 86 girls’s volleyball match.
The league on Sunday introduced its choice to droop Yee following a grievance raised by a member college in opposition to him on account of conduct violative of the needs of the UAAP — a platform for Member Universities to foster camaraderie and truthful play.
The UAAP mentioned Yee “retains the power to coach the UE Girl Warriors and coach the group in non-UAAP occasions” and the suspension won’t affect the group’s file within the UAAP Season 86 Girls’s Volleyball Event.
Jerry Yee won’t coach the UE vs Adamson later this afternoon
The UE coach says the league has suspended him for the rest of #UAAPSeason86 girls’s volleyball match. @INQUIRERSports pic.twitter.com/n0N7CdExlk
— Lance Agcaoili (@LanceAgcaoilINQ) March 3, 2024
“After an intensive deliberation by the UAAP Board of Managing Administrators (BMD), a advice was elevated to the Board of Trustees (BOT). On February 29, 2024, the BOT concurred with the BMD findings that Coach Yee had engaged in acts inconsistent with the league’s aims,” the UAAP mentioned in a press release.
“The UAAP, as a company of academic establishments, prioritizes sustaining a close-knit relationship amongst its eight member faculties by means of wholesome competitors and calls for the very best moral {and professional} requirements from these anticipated to mould the student-athletes.”
Yee on Sunday expressed his utmost disappointment, explaining that his choice to half methods with Adamson was “a mutual one.”
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“We agreed that the partnership had run its course, and I felt just like the time was proper for me to take a brand new step in my profession and face a brand new problem. Recall that I used to be already gainfully employed as head coach of the St. Benilde girls’s volleyball group within the NCAA when Adamson supplied me to be the top coach of the Girl Falcons within the UAAP,” mentioned Yee. “Whereas on the helm of the Adamson girls’s volleyball, a chance introduced itself when a newcomer group was being shaped in knowledgeable league (PVL) with the core of the St. Benilde Girl Blazers as its gamers.”
Yee signed with Adamson final season amid his NCAA teaching gig with the School of Saint Benilde and led the Girl Falcons again to the Last 4 and a bronze medal end.
Months after his first season with Adamson, the varsity introduced that Yee was relieved of his teaching duties with the Girl Falcons on June 7 after he was named head coach of Farm Recent forward of its debut convention within the PVL.
Yee defined his departure because the Adamson coach after UE signed him a few weeks later.
Yee mentioned that Dr. Obet Very important will deal with the Girl Warriors whereas he and the varsity will enchantment to the league. #UAAPSeason86 @INQUIRERSports pic.twitter.com/P1JUpuAFDJ
— Lance Agcaoili (@LanceAgcaoilINQ) March 3, 2024
“Round March 2023, Adamson and its most important sponsor Akari met with me to debate the problem the place the sponsor conveyed that it wasn’t comfortable and that it is going to be exhausting to proceed with our preparations. Actually, I even supplied to deal with the Adamson group for one more season with out the extra compensation from the sponsor, however each the varsity and Akari acknowledged that it wouldn’t be doable,” mentioned Yee.
“I met once more with Adamson and Akari across the first week of June 2023 to debate a mutual termination of settlement, and thereafter on June 7, 2023, the varsity issued a “assertion of launch” successfully terminating my companies as head coach of the Girl Falcons. Whereas specializing in my groups within the NCAA and the PVL, UE approached and supplied me a head teaching job which I accepted on June 21, 2023.
I preserve that there was no moral breach in my choice to simply accept UE’s head teaching job, as a result of it was a mutual parting of the way for each Adamson and I. It’s unlucky that this profession choice of mine has been met with vitriol on the late-onset, borne out of vindictiveness sarcastically from an establishment that prides itself in instilling Catholic virtues and teachings.”
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Yee was notified about his suspension on Friday afternoon. He and UE will enchantment to the league on Monday.
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UE assistant coach Dr. Obet Very important will name the photographs for UE in opposition to Yee’s former group Adamson on Sunday at Mall of Asia Area.
“My dismay with the UAAP board’s choice is merely secondary to the frustration that I maintain in not having the ability to fulfill my dedication to teaching and mentoring the UE Girl Warriors. Furthermore, this choice additionally unduly deprives me of the fitting to acquire different sources of dwelling and in offering for my household. The three-month suspension is handed all the way down to punish my real intent to be of service to the UE neighborhood, and it’s most unlucky that the undue penalties of this have prolonged to my household,” Yee mentioned.
“My dedication to restoring a successful tradition to the UE Girl Warriors stays steadfast regardless of the large drawback we now face as a group with out its chief. Nonetheless, I’ll proceed to carry out my duties as coach to the Girl Warriors regardless of the unmerited choice by the board.”