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Criss Cross' Jude Garcia during the awarding ceremony of the 2026 Spikers’ Turf Open Conference. PVL Media BureauMANILA — Jude Garcia was named back-to-back Spikers’ Turf Most Valuable Player of the Season after impressive showings in the 2025 Spikers’ Turf Invitational Conference and 2026 Open Conference.
Garcia, also a five-time conference MVP, garnered 109.442 statistical points for his heroics in the 2025 Invitational, where he towed Criss Cross to a breakthrough title, and in the 2026 Open Conference, where they outlasted Savouge for the crown.
The King Crunchers' multi-awarded spiker will be feted at the 2nd Pilipinas Live PVL Press Corps Awards Night supported by Immuni+ on May 30 at the Novotel Manila in Quezon City.
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The Open Conference Finals MVP will also banner the Mythical Team after securing one of the two Best Outside Hitter awards with 96.022 statistical points alongside Criss Cross teammate Noel Kampton, who tallied 74.022 points, as deliberated by print and online scribes covering the men’s club league organized by Sports Vision.
Also part of the 2025-26 Spikers’ Turf Mythical Team are back-to-back Best Setter winner Adrian Villados with 66.670 statistical points and John Pepito, who shone brightly amid a three-man libero rotation throughout the two conferences, ranking sixth overall in the Invitational Conference and third overall in the Open Conference en route to 50.956 statistical points.
Giles Torres, the Invitational Conference Best Middle Blocker, joins the elite cast after collecting 65.638 statistical points across the two conferences, while JP Bugaoan, who earned his fifth positional award in the men’s club league during the Open Conference, finished with 63.100 points.
Meanwhile, Mark Calado was named the season’s Best Opposite Spiker with 79.588 statistical points after leading the Spin Doctors’ offense to a breakthrough silver-medal finish.