MANATI, Puerto Rico - The Leonas de Ponce of the Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino (LVSF) will have a special buzz about it in the team's return to LVSF play in 2026, as the team selected American International College graduate student Paola Soto Burgos with its first round pick in the 2025 Player Draft and additionally added Andrea Serra Rosa to its roster in a special expansion draw on November 14, 2025.

For the official LVSF draft announcement, click here.

Soto Burgos recently completed an incredible career at AIC where she ranks sixth in kills with 1189, fifth in block assists with 189, tenth in service aces with 130, and fifth in points at 1437 across 125 matches, which is also good for sixth in program history. 

She was recently named a First-Team All-East Region selection by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) for the third time, joining Serra Rosa as the only three-time AVCA First-Team All-Region honorees in program history, and is a two-time AVCA All-American in addition to being a three-time Northeast 10 Conference Tournament Champion and winning the 2022 NE10 Tournament MVP; she and her sister Victoria Soto Burgos are the only sibling duo to both win the postseason honor from the NE10 after Victoria won in 2024.

In addition to her on-court accolades, Soto Burgos is also a campus and community leader. She has spent several years on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Executive Board, where she currently serves as its President, and her charitable foundation, the Comfort Hearts Foundation, provides handmade heart-shaped pillows to help allievate pain for women recovering from surgery related to breast cancer.

Serra Rosa is one of the most dominant players in any sport that AIC and the NE10 have ever had. The three-time AVCA All-American and East Region Player of the Year played 138 matches for the Yellow Jackets from 2018-2022, and is the program's all-time kills leader with 1836. She also sits fourth in aces at 185, sixth in digs with 1366, and second in points with 2096. 

She helped AIC to its second-ever East Region Championship as a rookie in 2018 and then to back-to-back NE10 titles in 2021 and 2022. A two-time NE10 Academic All-Conference selection, she won the NE10's Sport Excellence Award in 2022, capping a run of three straight Player of the Year wins, and additionally won NE10 Tournament MVP in 2021. 

Serra Rosa has played in the LVSF for three seasons since graduating, beginning with the Pinkin de Corozal in 2022-23 and for the last two seasons with Changas de Naranjito.

Founded in 1968, the Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino is operated by Puerto Rican Volleyball Federation (FPV) and has seven teams, with Criollas de Caguas winning the most recent title. The season will begin in January and runs through May.