Ana Carolina da Silva

Brazilian volleyball player (born 1991) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ana Carolina da Silva (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈɐnɐ kaɾoˈlinɐ da ˈsiwvɐ]; born 8 April 1991) is a Brazilian indoor volleyball player. She plays as a Middle blocker and was a member of the Brazil women's national volleyball team from 2014 to 2024.[1][2]

FullnameAna Carolina da Silva
NicknameCarolana
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1991-04-08) 8 April 1991 (age 35)
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Ana Carolina da Silva
Da Silva in 2022
Personal information
Full nameAna Carolina da Silva
NicknameCarolana
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1991-04-08) 8 April 1991 (age 35)
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 clubUnited States LOVB Nebraska
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
2025—26United States LOVB Nebraska
National team
2014–2024Brazil Brazil
Honours
Women's volleyball
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2020 TokyoTeam
Bronze medal – third place2024 ParisTeam
World Championship
Silver medal – second place2022 Netherlands/PolandTeam
Bronze medal – third place2014 ItalyTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
Silver medal – second place2017 JapanTeam
Nations League
Silver medal – second place2019 NanjingTeam
Silver medal – second place2021 RiminiTeam
Silver medal – second place2022 AnkaraTeam
World Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place2014 TokyoTeam
Gold medal – first place2017 NanjingTeam
Bronze medal – third place2015 OmahaTeam
Montreux Volley Masters
Gold medal – first place2017 SwitzerlandTeam
South American Championship
Gold medal – first place2015 Cartagena
Gold medal – first place2017 Cali
Gold medal – first place2019 Cajamarca
Gold medal – first place2021 Barrancabermeja
Gold medal – first place2023 Recife
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Career

Da Silva won the silver medal and the Best Middle Blocker award at the 2013 Club World Championship playing with Unilever Vôlei.[3] Da Silva played with her national team,[4] winning the bronze at the 2014 World Championship[5] when her team defeated Italy 3–2 in the bronze medal match.[6]

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,[7] Nonetheless, she won the tournament's Best Blocker award along with the Croatian Maja Poljak.[8] She averaged 1.07 stuff blocks per set, just behind Poljak who blocked 1.19.[9]

She won the 2017 South American Championship Best Middle Blocker award.[10] and later the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Middle Blocker award.[11] 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.

On 11 August 2024, Brazil defeated Turkey in the bronze medal match and Da Silva won her second olympic medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.[12]

On 2 August 2025, Carol announced her retirement after 10 years defending the Brazilian National Team.

Personal life

On 2 March 2023, Da Silva married her long-time partner Anne Buijs, who is also a player for the Netherlands' 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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