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Ana Carolina da Silva

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]

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Personal information
Full nameAna Carolina da Silva
NicknameCarolana
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1991-04-08) April 8, 1991 (age 34)
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 TokyoTeam
2024 ParisTeam
World Championship
2022 Netherlands/PolandTeam
2014 ItalyTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
2017 JapanTeam
Nations League
2019 NanjingTeam
2021 RiminiTeam
2022 AnkaraTeam
World Grand Prix
2014 TokyoTeam
2017 NanjingTeam
2015 OmahaTeam
Montreux Volley Masters
2017 SwitzerlandTeam
South American Championship
2015 Cartagena
2017 Cali
2019 Cajamarca
2021 Barrancabermeja
2023 Recife
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Career

Carol 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 Carol won her second olympic medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Personal life

On 2 of March 2023, Carol 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

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