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It’s time for Gyzelle Sy to say goodbye to Far Eastern University, for now.
FEU’s fifth-year setter will be hanging her green-and-gold jersey for good, but a new door has opened for her and it could be the perfect graduation gift.
Sy’s coaches have offered her a stint as a mentor of the team’s setters and the outgoing Lady Tamaraw expressed nothing, but thanks for her school.
“Sobrang thankful ko kay God, sa mga coaches na nagtiwala sa akin, especially sa coaches ko na tinulungan ako maabot ito,” Sy said Wednesday after their three-set loss to De La Salle University in the Final Four. “Hindi ko mararating ang situation na ito kung di nila ako tinulungan.”
“Sobrang umiyak ako, hagulgol ako, lahat ng teammates ko umiiyak na rin.”
Tears may have been shed inside the FEU locker room but Sy assured her teammates she won’t leave just yet especially with her new job for the Lady Tamaraws.
Sy would be mentoring Kyle Negrito and Maria Cayuna for the next season and she told her teammates not to cry too much.
“Sabi ko sa kanila, wag silang umiyak cheer up lang kasi di naman ako patay at babalik ako sa kanila,” Sy said, her tears gone. “Once a Tamaraw, always a Tamaraw.”