Ana Carolina da Silva

Ana Carolina da Silva
Da Silva in 2022
Personal information
Full nameAna Carolina da Silva
NicknameCarolana
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1991-04-08) April 8, 1991
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Spike316 cm (124 in)
Block309 cm (122 in)
Volleyball information
PositionMiddle-Blocker
Current club Savino del Bene Scandicci
Number15
Career
YearsTeams
2005–10 Mackenzie/Newton Paiva
2010–11 Pinheiros/Mackenzie
2011–12 Unilever Vôlei
2012–13 EC Pinheiros
2013–17 Rio de Janeiro Vôlei Clube
2017–18 Nilüfer Belediyespor
2018–23 Dentil/Praia Clube
2023—25 Savino del Bene Scandicci
National team
2014– Brazil
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Team
2024 Paris Team
World Championship
2022 Netherlands/Poland Team
2014 Italy Team
World Grand Champions Cup
2017 Japan Team
Nations League
2019 Nanjing Team
2021 Rimini Team
2022 Ankara Team
World Grand Prix
2014 Tokyo Team
2017 Nanjing Team
2015 Omaha Team
Montreux Volley Masters
2017 Switzerland Team
South American Championship
2015 Cartagena
2017 Cali
2019 Cajamarca
2021 Barrancabermeja
2023 Recife

Ana Carolina da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɐ̃nɐ kaɾoˈlinɐ da ˈsiwvɐ]; born 8 April 1991) is a Brazilian indoor volleyball player. She plays as a Middle blocker and has been a member of the Brazil women's national volleyball team since 2014.[1]

Career

Da Silva won the silver medal and the Best Middle Blocker award at the 2013 Club World Championship playing with Unilever Vôlei.[2] Da Silva played with her national team,[3] winning the bronze at the 2014 World Championship[4] when her team defeated Italy 3–2 in the bronze medal match.[5]

During the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship, Da Silva played with the Brazilian club Rexona Ades Rio and her team lost the bronze medal match to the Swiss Voléro Zürich,[6] Nonetheless, she won the tournament's Best Blocker award along with the Croatian Maja Poljak.[7] She averaged 1.07 stuff blocks per set, just behind Poljak who blocked 1.19.[8]

She won the 2017 South American Championship Best Middle Blocker award.[9] and later the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Middle Blocker award.[10] In 2021, she competed for the first time in the Olympics in Tokyo 2020, winning silver medal with Brazil Volleyball Team. In the 2022 World Championship, won the silver medal after losing the final match against Serbia.

In August 11, 2024, Brazil defeated Turkey in the bronze medal match and Da Silva won her second olympic medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Personal life

On 2 of March 2023, Da Silva married her long-time partner Anne Buijs, who is also a player for the Netherland's National Team. They've been together since 2016, when they were both playing for the same club in Rio de Janeiro, Rexona-Sesc. After that they played together for two international volleyball clubs, Nilufer in Turkey and Praia Clube located in Uberlândia, Brazil, where they got married. Playing together they won two times the Brazilian Superliga, in 2016/17 and 2022/23. They also played the same olympics for the first time, in Paris 2024, with their respective countries.

Awards

Individuals

In teams

In Brazil's national team

Clubs

References

  1. ^ "Carol" (in Portuguese). Confederação Brasileira de Voleibol. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
  2. ^ "Vakifbank Istanbul fly to first Women's Club World Champs title, China claim bronze". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  3. ^ "Team Roster – Brazil". FIVB. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  4. ^ "USA win first World Championship title, China and Brazil complete the podium". Milan, Italy: FIVB. 12 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  5. ^ Carneiro, Leandro (12 October 2014). "Brasil passa sufoco e quase toma virada, mas conquista bronze ante Itália". UOL (in Portuguese). Milan, Italy. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Volero get it right on third try". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Eczacibasi from the top of Europe to the top of the world". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 10 May 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  8. ^ "Repeat awards for Carol and Fabiola at Zurich 2015". Zurich, Switzerland: FIVB. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Brasil suma su 20º título y clasifica al Mundial de Japón en el sudamericano de Cali" (in Spanish). CSV. 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  10. ^ "China clinch second FIVB World Grand Champions Cup title". Nagoya, Japan: FIVB. 10 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.

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