Janine Pontejos
Filipino basketball player (born 1992)
Janine Ricalde Pontejos (born October 29, 1992) is a Filipino professional basketball player who last played for the Caloocan Lady Kankaloo of the Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (WMPBL). She has represented the Philippine national team in international competitions.
Playing career
College
Janine Pontejos is noted as a homegrown player who have never played in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) basketball championship. She first took up basketball growing up with her siblings in Lemery, Batangas. Her first competitive experience in the sport was as a varsity player of De La Salle Lipa. She part of both the school's athletics and basketball team. She later transferred to the Centro Escolar University and became part of the CEU Lady Scorpions. With the Lady Scorpions, she was named MVP for four times in the Women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (WNCAA) and her team dominated the National Athletic Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (NAASCU).
Club
Pontejos has played in the Women's National Basketball League in the Philippines. In its first season in 2019, Pontejos led the Taguig Lady Generals to a second place finish and she was named as season MVP. In the 2022 season, she helped the Philippine Army Lady Battalions clinch the WNBL title.
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