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Ana Carolina da Silva

Ana Carolina da Silva (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]

Ana Carolina da Silva
Silva in 2022
Personal information
Full nameAna Carolina da Silva
NicknameCarolana
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1991-04-08) April 8, 1991 (age 33)
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 clubItaly Savino del Bene Scandicci
Number15
Career
YearsTeams
2005–10Brazil Mackenzie/Newton Paiva
2010–11Brazil Pinheiros/Mackenzie
2011–12Brazil Unilever Vôlei
2012–13Brazil EC Pinheiros
2013–17Brazil Rio de Janeiro Vôlei Clube
2017–18Turkey Nilüfer Belediyespor
2018–23Brazil Dentil/Praia Clube
2023—25Italy Savino del Bene Scandicci
National team
2014–Brazil Brazil
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Silver medal – second place 2022 Netherlands/Poland Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Italy Team
World Grand Champions Cup
Silver medal – second place 2017 Japan Team
Nations League
Silver medal – second place 2019 Nanjing Team
Silver medal – second place 2021 Rimini Team
Silver medal – second place 2022 Ankara Team
World Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2014 Tokyo Team
Gold medal – first place 2017 Nanjing Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Omaha Team
Montreux Volley Masters
Gold medal – first place 2017 Switzerland Team
South American Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cartagena
Gold medal – first place 2017 Cali
Gold medal – first place 2019 Cajamarca
Gold medal – first place 2021 Barrancabermeja
Gold medal – first place 2023 Recife

Career

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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

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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 they played for the sabe 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

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Individuals

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In teams

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In Brazil's national team

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Clubs

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References

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  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.
Awards
Preceded by Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB Club World Championship
2013
ex aequo   Christiane Fürst
2015
ex aequo   Maja Poljak 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Most Valuable Player of
Montreux Volley Masters
2017 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Best Middle Blocker of
Montreux Volley Masters
2017
ex aequo   Marie Schölzel 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by Best Middle Blocker of
World Grand Champions Cup
2017
ex aequo   Yuan Xinyue 		Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB Nations League
2022 (with   Jovana Stevanović) 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Best Middle Blocker of
FIVB World Championship
2022 (with   Anna Danesi) 		Succeeded by
Incumbent

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