Will Shin Ho-jin, Park Sung-jin, and Lee Jin-sung's volleyball young guns shake the V League

Young guns' performance shone particularly in the men's division of the 2023 Gumi-Dodram Cup Professional Volleyball Tournament, which had just come down. For the first time in history, second-year players swept the individual awards of the cup competition, signaling the birth of a new star in the V League, which will open in October.

OK Financial Group's left-hander, Apodget Shin Ho-jin, was selected as the MVP with 34 points in the final of the cup competition held at Park Chung-hee Gymnasium in Gumi on the 13th. In addition to Shin Ho-jin, those of the same age (Shin Ho-jin was born in 2001), who were born in 2000 in their second year of debut, were listed on the list of winners. Park Sung-jin of Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, who was in charge of 30 points alone in the final, received the runner-up player award (MIP), and Lee Jin-sung of OK Financial Group, who showed brilliant blocking skills, won the Rising Star Award.

Shin Ho-jin is a rising star following the V-League men's left-hander Apogit genealogy, which has been cut off since 2011, and was nominated by OK Financial Group as the first place in the first round in the rookie draft last year. In the first year of his debut, he played 72 sets in 27 games, failing to meet expectations with 126 points and a 52.38 percent success rate. It was followed by an evaluation that it was somewhat disappointing for the overall No. 1 rookie, even though there were not many opportunities to play.

However, it has been showing rapid growth since coach Ogino Massage took over as the team's head coach in June. In the semifinals of the tournament against Japanese invited team Panasonic, he scored 31 points, including six blocking, and in the final, he scored 34 points with a 43.93% share and an overwhelming attack success rate of 72.34% to lead OK Financial Group to its first cup competition. Although he was unable to participate in the Chengdu Summer Universiade just before the tournament, he scored a total of 100 points in four games and performed wonderfully.

Park Sung-jin joined Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance as the fourth-ranked player in the second round in the rookie draft last year. As expectations were not very high, he played 15 games and scored only 17 points last season. Park Sung-jin, who focused on training during the off-season due to his disappointing report card, immediately stood out as an apogit spy, not his main position, in this tournament. He led the team's attack in the group qualifying round, and in the semifinals, he scored 23 points and scored 50% of the attack success rate, causing a defeat to the strong team Korean Air. In the final, he showed his ace side with 30 points and a 67.44 percent attack success rate. 토토사이트

Lee Jin-sung, an outside heater, was named to OK Financial Group as the seventh-ranked player in the second round last year. He was almost on the bench with two points in seven games last season because he received less attention than Shin Ho-jin at the same time as joining the team. However, in this tournament, he started all games and scored an average of 8.6 points. In the final, whenever the team's atmosphere subsided, he broke the flow by scoring open and blocking points.

Considering that the individual winners of last year's Cup tournament continued to play in the V League, their performance in the future is also worth looking forward to. Moon Ji-yoon (GS Caltex), who won the women's MVP at the last Cup tournament, has become a built-in main player in the team, while Kim Ji-han (Korea Electric Power Corp.) Kwon Min-ji (GS Caltex), who won the Rising Star Award, has also been on an upward curve since the tournament.