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 (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]
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.
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.
Runner-Up, with Unilever Vôlei 
Champion, with Unilever Vôlei Champion, with Rexona-Ades Champion, with Rexona-Ades Champion, with Rexona-Sesc Runner-Up, with Dentil/Praia Clube Runner-Up, with Dentil/Praia Clube Runner-Up, with Dentil/Praia Clube Champion, with Dentil/Praia Clube Runner-Up, with Savino Del Bene Scandicci Runner-Up, with Unilever Vôlei Champion, with Rexona-Ades Champion, with Rexona-Ades Champion, with Rexona-Sesc Runner-Up, with Dentil/Praia Clube Runner-Up, with Dentil/Praia Clube Champion, with Dentil/Praia Clube Runner-Up, with Dentil/Praia Clube Champion, with Dentil/Praia Clube 
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