Michelle Cobb reveals reason for PVL retirement

Former Akari Chargers setter Michelle Cobb has revealed the reason for her sudden retirement from professional volleyball last June.

Cobb was vital in the Chargers capturing a silver medal in last season’s PVL Reinforced Conference, as well as their bronze-medal finish in the All-Filipino Conference.

Many fans were shocked when Cobb announced she would retire from playing and transition into an assistant team manager role for Akari in the offseason.

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Speaking with ABS-CBN, Cobb revealed that she had been thinking about retirement even before her last conference in the PVL, citing that she had already felt fulfilled from her success in college with the DLSU Green Archers, and early in the PVL with the now-defunct F2 Logistics Cargo Movers.

“I think it just hit me one day that it’s more of the sense of fulfillment. And I’ve come to terms that I’m not like the other players,” she said. “I mean, I’m 26. That’s usually the prime of other players na in the PVL right now. So I think parang ako, I’m going in another direction.”

“I kind of felt that sense of fulfillment very early on in my career as a professional athlete. I think it wasn’t really an impulsive decision. Because I was able to think it through,” Cobb added.

Cobb also stressed that her recent engagement with Vito Sotto Generoso had nothing to do with her decision to hang up the boots.

“Itong last conference ko, which was October to May, I already started that conference with that notion na this might be my last. So parang very well thought of. Not really out of the events in my life. Not really out of injuries. It’s more of a self-actualization na I wanna move on din,” Cobb said.

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