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Full name | Serena Ortolani | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Ravenna, Italy | 7 January 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 320 cm (126 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 310 cm (122 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite spiker / Wing Spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | ProVictoria Pallavolo Monza | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Serena Ortolani (born 7 January 1987 in Ravenna) is an Italian volleyball player. [1]
She has played as an opposite hitter for Foppapedretti Bergamo from 2008 to 2011. Her debut for the national team came on the 2005 edition of the European Championships, held in Croatia, when the team was then coached by Marco Bonitta. In the 2005/06 season, she won her first Coppa Italia and Scudetto with Foppapedretti Bergamo. In 2006, she was selected again for the national team for the 2006 FIVB Women's World Championship, held in Japan, where she helped Italy win fourth place. She began the 2006/2007 season for Bergamo, but after the first half of the season, she was loaned to Rebecchi Piacenza, to improve her game further. In 2007, she helped the Italian volleyball team win the Women's European Volleyball Championship, held in Belgium and Luxembourg and repeated this success a few months later at the World Cup in Japan, thereby helping Italy gain qualification for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where she subsequently competed.
She won the 2008–09 CEV Indesit Champions League playing with Volley Bergamo and was awarded "Most Valuable Player". [2]
She was selected to play the Italian League All-Star game in 2017. [3]
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