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Regla Bell

Cuban volleyball player (born 1970) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Regla Bell
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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bell and the second or maternal family name is MacKenzie.

Regla Maritza Bell MacKenzie (Havana, 1970) is one of the great legends of Cuban and world volleyball. A left-handed attacker[1] of tremendous power and charisma, she was a key figure in the Cuban national team known as “Las Espectaculares Morenas del Caribe” (“The Spectacular Caribbean Girls"), the squad that dominated women’s world volleyball in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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With Cuba, she won three Olympic gold medals (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000), two World Championship titles (1994 and 1998)[2][3] and four World Cups (1989, 1991, 1995 and 1999). Together with her teammate Lilia Izquierdo, they are the only players to have been present for all nine major titles of that golden era of Cuban volleyball and remain, to this day, the only players worldwide to have achieved such accomplishments. She was captain of the national team at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

After shining with the national team, she played in professional leagues in Italy, Brazil and Spain. She is currently dedicated to training and developing young volleyball players.

Her induction into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame[4] confirmed the impact and legacy of a true “golden left-hander.”

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National team

Bell won three consecutive gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games (1992, 1996 and 2000), two consecutive gold medals at the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship (1994 and 1998), [3] and four consecutive gold medals at the FIVB Volleyball World Cup (1989, 1991, 1995 and 1999). [5]

She was captain of the Cuban team at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.[6]

Bell also won gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1991 and 1995, a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games, [3] and seven gold medals at the NORCECA Women’s Volleyball Championship (one of them at U18 level). She also claimed gold medals in the following competitions: two in the World Grand Prix, six in the Montreux Volley Masters and two in the World Top Four.

Among other accolades, she amassed 28 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 3 bronze medals in the most important world competitions with the senior Cuban women’s national volleyball team.

Club volleyball

For the regular season of the 2008–09 Spanish Superliga, Bell was elected MVP and Best Scorer after hitting 439 kills during that regular league.[7]

Bell played for São Caetano/Blausiegel in Brazil for the 2009–10 season.[8] She then played for the Spanish team Fígaro Peluqueros Tenerife for the 2010-11 season.[9]

Bell played for the Indonesian club Monokwari Valeria during the 2012–13 season of the Indonesian volleyball league,[5] and later signed up for a two-month contract with PLDT HOME TVolution, a Philippine volleyball team that participated at the 2014 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship.[10]

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