The Farm Fresh Foxies are turning heads in the 2025 PVL Reinforced Conference.
Slowly but surely, Alessandro Lodi’s vision for the Farm Fresh Foxies is beginning to take shape.
Now featuring a much-deeper lineup, the Foxies have made some serious noise in the 2025 PVL Reinforced Conference, where they currently sit at third with a 5-1 record behind two-time champions PLDT High Speed Hitters and still-undefeated ZUS Coffee Thunderbelles.
For Lodi, it’s the culmination of a process that started with his appointment last May, and his eventual debut with the Foxies during the inaugural PVL on Tour.
“Generally speaking, the growth has been immense, even when just compared to one month or just few weeks before the conference,” Lodi said after Farm Fresh booked their Reinforced Conference quarterfinals ticket on Tuesday against the Petro Gazz Angels.
“That’s surprised even me, and it’s the culmination of six months of work, of struggle, of ups and downs; we knew, the team knew that we were putting in the work and investing in the money necessary to hit the big jackpot in the end.”
Farm Fresh has been an offensive powerhouse throughout the Reinforced Conference preliminaries, thanks to Lodi’s hands-on approach, and a core led by two-time Best Opposite Trisha Tubu, Belgian import Helene Rousseaux, and setter Alohi Robins-Hardy. Veteran spiker Ces Molina has also remained as a steady contributor, while Alyssa Bertolano has embraced her role as a converted libero.
Through six games, the Foxies are averaging a league-best 34.33 percent spiking, along with an equally-impressive 1.65 aces per set. Individually, Rousseaux leads the scoring charts with 170 (28.3 per game) points across this stretch, while Tubu is their top local scorer with 87 (14.5 per game). Robins-Hardy, meanwhile, is the league’s second-best playmaker with 6.22 excellent sets per frame.
“Not everyone saw it and if you just see the team every once in a while, you might think ‘What is going on?’ But it’s all the normal ups and downs, in the phases of growth and change. And the change for us is closer to a revolution,” Lodi continued.
“In those phases, it’s not just a consistent day-by-day process; there are really some days where it looks like you cannot play volleyball. But we’re on our way and people just can’t see it yet.”
While the spotlight go to Farm Fresh’s main gunners, Lodi made sure to highlight everyone else in their meteoric rise — from the second unit, to their reserves, everyone has been doing their part in holding each other accountable behind the scenes.
“We’re not there yet and we still have to clean up some things, but it makes me so proud and I want to have everybody represented in this picture. It’s the whole team, it’s seventeen players; those who don’t play, those who aren’t even on the bench, it’s everyone working hard and they’ve been doing this for around six or seven months now.”
Images courtesy of the Premier Volleyball League.