Oliver Allan Almadro is a Filipino volleyball coach and is the former head coach of the

Choco Mucho Flying Titans The Choco Mucho Flying Titans is a professional women's volleyball team playing in the Premier Volleyball League. The team is owned by the Republic Biscuit Corporation. History The team was created by the Republic Biscuit Corporation for the 2 ...

in the

Premier Volleyball League The Premier Volleyball League (PVL) is a women's professional volleyball league in the Philippines organized by Sports Vision Management Group, Inc. The league began in 2004 as the Shakey's V-League, a women's collegiate league. Since 2011, the ...

, the volleyball program director of the

UP Fighting Maroons The UP Fighting Maroons are the collegiate varsity teams of the University of the Philippines, primarily off Diliman, which play in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP), the premiere sports league in the country. The Fi ...

and the head of operations of

Petro Gazz Angels The Petro Gazz Angels are a professional women's volleyball team playing in the Premier Volleyball League (PVL). History The team debuted in the 2018 PVL Reinforced Conference. Petro Gazz Angels is primarily composed of former players from th ...

Education

Almadro attended the

Colegio de San Juan de Letran The Colegio de San Juan de Letran, (transl: College of San Juan de Letran) also referred to by its acronym CSJL, is a private Catholic coeducational basic and higher education institution owned and run by the friars of the Order of Preachers i ...

. He attempted to secure a berth in Letran's men's volleyball team was unable to leading him to pursue a career in coaching instead.

Career

Almadro has been the head coach of the

Ateneo de Manila University , mottoeng = Light in the Lord , type = Private, research, non-profit, coeducational basic and higher education institution , established = December 10, 1859 , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic ( Jesuits) , academic ...

's volleyball teams which played in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP). He led the men's team to its first final appearance in three decade in Season 76 in 2014. This was followed by three-straight titles from Season 77 to 79. In May 2018, he was named as head coach of Ateneo's women's team. At Season 81 (2019), his first UAAP run with the women's side, he led the lady spikers to a title. At Season 84 (2022) however, the team finished as semifinalist. The

, a team formed in 2019, tapped Almadro as their head coach. The team first competed in the

(PVL) in the 2019 Open Conference. Almadro resigned from Choco Mucho in November 2022 to focus on his role as head coach of Ateneo de Manila's women's team. In January 2023, Almadro joined

as their head coach starting the All-Filipino Conference In July, he left Ateneo and was replaced by Brazilian coach Sergio Veloso. In August, he was appointed as head of Petro Gazz's volleyball operations.

Personal life

Almadro is a devout Roman Catholic and has three sons and a daughter. He is a devotee of the

Black Nazarene The Black Nazarene ( es, El Nazareno Negro, Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno; fil, Poóng Itím na Nazareno, Hesus Nazareno) is a life-sized image of a dark-skinned, kneeling Jesus Christ carrying the Cross enshrined in the Minor Basilica of th ...

References

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