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Ana Esther Lara

Ana Esther Lara (born (1985-06-08)8 June 1985) is a retired Dominican Republic female volleyball player. She was part of the Dominican Republic women's national volleyball team. She participated in the 2006 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix.

Ana Esther Lara
Personal information
NationalityDominican
Born (1985-06-08) 8 June 1985 (age 39)
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Spike279 cm (110 in)
Block274 cm (108 in)
College / UniversityO&M
Volleyball information
PositionLibero
National team
2006Dominican Republic
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing the  Dominican Republic

On club level she played for Modeca in 2006.[1]

Career

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Lara was awarded Best Receiver in the 2004 National District Superior Tournament that she played with the club Bameso.[2]

In the 2004 Junior NORCECA Championship held in Winnipeg Canada, she won the silver medal and the Best Libero award. Lara was viewed as the future for the Libero position for the Dominican Republic at the time she was participating in the warm up matches against a Chinese team.[3] She represented her home country at the 2005 FIVB U20 World Championship,[4] and her team finished ninth[5] when their goal was reaching the fifth position.[6] She played this tournament that was meant for players born after 1986.[7]

During the 2005 Superior National tournament, Lara played with the Santo Domingo representative and was awarded tournament's Best Digger.[8] She won the Best Libero individual award in the 2006 FIVB qualification championship,[9]

For the 2005/06 season, she played with the German club USC Braunschweig, ranking in the seventh place in the Bundesliga.[10][11] When the Dominican coach Beato Cruz took over the reins of the senior national teams, he was set to visit the Dominican players participating overseas, among them Lara[12] and named her between the 18 players set to fight for a spot in the 2006 national team calendar.[13]

Lara was set to participate in 2007 with her original club, Modeca, but after serious disagreements Lara's club president and the NORCECA president Cristóbal Marte, she and other player were expelled from the national team indefinitely.[14] Later she was named in the case file open in the International Olympic Committee's Ethics Commission by Professor Hans Peter Graf, accusing FIVB president Mr. Ruben Acosta and the vice president Cristóbal Marte of violation of the IOC ethical rules and cheating about ages, among them, Lara´s age for the 2005 FIVB U20 World Championship.[15][16]

She turned to beach volleyball, partnering Juana González in the Cochabamba, Bolivia stop from the World Volleyball Federation (WVBF) Proseries Championship Tour 2008 were they ranked tied in seventh place from eight participants.[17][18]

Lara played for Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña in the 2008 National University Games in the Dominican Republic.[19]

In 2017 she won the gold medal in the Hato Mayor Beach Volleyball Tournament, playing with Dahiana Burgos and Juana González.[20]

In 2019 The libero Ana Lara was chosen by Cristo Rey and there they would have the opportunity to play in this campaign in the absence of Brenda Castillo, where his team was in the first place, he suffered an injury in the right knee that affected his meniscus, this happened and he had to leave the competition, carry out the recovery process under therapies, his participation was impeccable, she not I had played at that level since 2006

Clubs

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  •   Simón Bolívar (1996–1998)
  •   Modeca (1999–2002)
  •   Evocar (2003–2004)
  •   Bameso (2004)
  •   USC Braunschweig (2005-2006)
  •   Modeca (2006-2007)
  •   Evocar (2007)
  •   Cristo Rey (2019)

References

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  1. ^ "Team Roster – Dominican Republic". FIVB.org. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Premian mejores atletas torneo superior de voleibol DN". Hoy (in Spanish). 2004-05-13. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  3. ^ Caceres, Jose (2005-03-21). "Voleibol RD ve subir nuevas estrellas en la rama femenina". Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  4. ^ "2005 Junior Women's U 20 World Championship" (PDF). FIVB. 2005-07-28. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  5. ^ "2005 Junior Women's U 20 World Championship / Final Standing". FIVB. 2005-07-31. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  6. ^ Caceres, Jose (2005-03-24). "El voleibol dominicano busca quedar quinto en el Campeonato Mundial 2005". Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  7. ^ Perez Nero, Nathanael (2007-05-31). "Denuncian alteración documentos voleibol". Diario Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  8. ^ "Bameso y Mirador campeones; Rivera electa "JMV" Nacional Voleibol". Hoy (in Spanish). 2005-02-27. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  9. ^ "Rosir Calderón fue la JMV en Santiago" [Rosir Calderón was the MVP in Santiago] (in Spanish). Santiago, Dominican Republic: NORCECA. 2005-08-28. Retrieved 2015-05-12.
  10. ^ "Salomoni droht mit der Bank" (in German). Braunschweig: Braunschweig Zeitung. 2006-01-15. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  11. ^ "USC-Youngster starten durch" (in German). Braunschweig: Braunschweig Zeitung. 2006-01-29. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  12. ^ Vargas, Kennedy (2006-02-01). "Cabral, Carreras y Vargas las mejores en Puerto Rico". Hoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  13. ^ Perez Nero, Nathanael (2006-02-13). "Grupo de 18 jugadoras tras 14 puestos equipo voleibol". Diario Libre (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  14. ^ Sanchez, Odalis (2010-05-08). "Juana González Ex selección nacional". El Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  15. ^ Thesbjerg, Marie V. (2007-04-12). "FIVB cheats in doping case and violates IOC Code of Ethics". Play the Game. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  16. ^ Adames F., Yoel (2007-03-22). ""Las Anas" y "Monstruos", ganan torneo arena HM". Listin Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  17. ^ "Balón al aire". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). 2008-04-18. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  18. ^ "BEACH VOLLEYBALL "WVBF-PROSERIES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TOUR 2008" – FIRST WOMEN EVENT IN COCHABAMBA (BOLIVIA)". Volley Mania. 2008-04-21. Retrieved 2017-12-02.
  19. ^ "La Unphu abre con triunfo torneo voleibol Juegos Universitarios". 7 Dias (in Spanish). 2013-05-21. Archived from the original on 2017-12-02. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
  20. ^ "Acusan en Suiza voleibol RD falsifica actas de jugadoras". Listin Diario (in Spanish). 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-12-01.


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