Frances Xinia Molina
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| Full name | Frances Xinia Harding Molina | ||||||
| Nationality | Philippines | ||||||
| Born | September 24, 1994 | ||||||
| Hometown | Nueva Ecija, Philippines | ||||||
| College(s) | San Beda College | ||||||
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| Position | Outside Hitter | ||||||
| Current club | Petron Blaze Spikers | ||||||
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Frances Xinia Molina (born September 24, 1994) is a Filipino volleyball player. She currently plays as an outside hitter for the Petron Tri-Activ Spikers. She will compete for the Philippine Super Liga All-Stars in the 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship.
A native of Nueva Ecija, she was born (second to three siblings) to Araceli Harding (née Dionisio) and Pedro Molina with the former who later became estranged from the latter and married to an India-based to British engineering consultant. Harding was an open hitter playing for the Central Luzon State University volleyball team in the State Colleges and Universities Athletic Association (SCUAA). She was supposed to join the Philippine women's national volleyball team that will participate in the 1991 Southeast Asian Games, but it was discontinued due to earlier marriage, and her work in a company based in Macau.
Molina grew up in the town of Aliaga and moved to Cabanatuan to attend the Araullo University (later transferred to College of Immaculate Conception) for her secondary studies. She was more involved in athletics due to her father's connection with the sport initially uninterested in volleyball.
Molina started playing volleyball on her fourth year in high school. In 2008, she was recruited to be the part of the Cabanatuan's secondary girls' volleyball team for the Central Luzon Regional Athletics Association. She was scouted by George Sucaldito and Nemecio Gavino from the San Beda College.
She then became part of the college's women's volleyball team, the San Beda Lady Red Spikers. Molina along with Janine Marciano was part of the team that ended in the Final Four at NCAA Season 87 but her team struggled in the next season. Molina's team ended in the Final Four again in NCAA Season 89 but Molina's participation was disrupted by an injury which meant that she didn't finish the season.
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